THE CENSORSHIP OF THE CHURCH SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS VOLUME I I. Introductory. The Index and Censorship. II. Censorship and the Early Church. 150–768. III. Prohibition of Books in the Middle Ages. 830–1480. IV. Book Regulations before the Indexes. In England, the Netherlands, France, Spain, and Germany. 1450–1555. V. Papal Censorship before the Indexes and the Bull _Coenae Domini_. 1364–1586. VI. The Roman Inquisition and the Congregation of the Index. VII. The First Series of Indexes. Louvain, 1510, Venice, 1543, Paris, 1544, Louvain, 1546, Lucca, 1545, Louvain, 1550, Venice, 1549, Valentia, 1551, Florence, 1552, Valladolid, 1554, Venice, 1554, Louvain, 1558, Valladolid, 1559, Rome, 1559. VIII. The Council of Trent and the Index of Pius IV. 1564. IX. Censorship Regulations. 1550–1591. X. Indexes of the Netherlands, Spain, and Italy. 1569–1588. XI. Roman Indexes and Decrees. 1590–1661. (This chapter includes the Index of Sixtus V, the only papal Index which undertook the work of expurgation.) XII. Indexes and Prohibitions, Spanish, Roman, Belgian, Portuguese, and Polish. 1612–1768. XIII. The Index of Alexander VII. 1664. (This Index includes the record of the condemnation of Galileo.) XIV. Decrees and Indexes, French, Belgian, Bohemian, Roman and Spanish. 1685–1815. XV. Erasmus and Luther in the Index. XVI. The Jansenist Controversy and the Bull _Unigenitus_. VOLUME II I. Theological Controversies in France, Germany, England, and the Netherlands. 1600–1750. II. The Treatment of the Scriptures under Censorship. III. The Monastic Orders and Censorship. IV. Roman Indexes. 1758–1900. (This chapter includes a specification of the Index of Benedict XIV of 1758, and description of the latest Indexes, those of Pius IX and Leo XIII.) V. General Prohibitions and the Continuation of Class I. VI. Issues between Church and State. VII. Examples of Condemned Literature. VIII. The Censorship of the State and by Protestants. a. Catholic States: Catholic Germany, France, Spain, and Portugal. b. Protestant States: Protestant Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Scandinavia, and England. IX. The Book Trade as Affected by Censorship: 1450–1800. X. The Censorship of the Stage. XI. The Literary Policy of the Modern Church. (This chapter includes a study of the Indexes of Leo XIII, 1896–1900, the work of Index revision and reform, 1865–1880, “Romanus” and the Tablet, 1897, and a reference to present methods of censorship.) XII. The Authority and the Results of Censorship.