Under Maria Theresa (ruled 17401780), handling books in Austrian and Bohemian lands was largely governed by the Index librorum prohibitorum, which the Catholic Church in Rome started publishing in 1559, and the Catalogus librorum a commissione aulica prohibitorum, which the Cour...
The WELS group appears to have held that all fellow- ship with those not sharing common and consistent belief is prohibited including praying with them (www.lcms. org/pages/internal. asp?NavlD=4840). Lessons Learned Modernism is well and working with an emphasis away from the traditional and...
Wheeled vehicles were prohibited inside the city of Rome during the day, in order to protect the heavy pedestrian traffic. Thus at night, carts from Ostia poured into Rome, delivering food and other goods for sale from all over Italy and the Empire. One of the most surprising aspects of t...
In the ancient Roman world—possibly much more than nowadays, at least in relative terms—large and permanent rivers were widely exploited as a useful resource: not only for fishing, water drawing, channelling through irrigation canals, supplying towns with water, but also for the transport of pa...
8Yet the goddess was not concerned only with gender: the older law alsostipulates that women should display an extreme degree of modesty. Wearinggold, purple, flowery or black clothing was forbidden and even sandals or a ringwere prohibited; moreover, no fashionable hairstyle was allowed. ...
In 1667 the Roman Catholic Church made its own decision by putting Descartes’s works on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Latin: “Index of Prohibited Books”) on the very day his bones were ceremoniously placed in Sainte-Geneviève-du-Mont in Paris. During his lifetime, Protestant ministers ...
Index Librorum Prohibitorum, list of books once forbidden by Roman Catholic Church authority as dangerous to the faith or morals of Roman Catholics. Publication of the list ceased in 1966, and it was relegated to the status of a historical document. Lear
Rebiba concluded his letter by expressing his hope that the book would be prohibited and its ‘capricious composer’ (compositore capriccioso) punished. These measures would, he believed, prevent Cardano from teaching these and other grave errors (Baldini and Spruit 2009, p. 1043). We do not...