Forbidden Books

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

History Hit

Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

What makes a book bad? Does it have to be nonsensical? Heretical? Libellous? Sexy?

Well for 500 years, a panel from the Roman Catholic Church attempted to grapple with this distinction.

Today Betwixt the Sheets, we find out what this collection of people deemed unsafe for the eyes of their worshippers.

Kate is joined by Robin Vose, a professor of history at St Thomas University in Canada to find out what made the cut, and what didn't.

*WARNING there are naughty words in this episode*

Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Edited and mixed by Anisha Deva.

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0:20.0	Hello again, my lovely betwixters.
0:22.0	This is Kate Lester and this is your Fair Doos Warning.
0:25.8	Fair Doos, it's an adult theme covering
0:28.2	adult content, adult naughtiness,
0:30.8	and as usual I'll keep swearing because
0:32.8	I just don't seem to be able to stop myself.
0:34.8	But if any of that isn't for you,
0:36.9	just give us a swerve and I'll catch you next time.
0:42.5	Stern Hugo Copernicus de Faux Voltaire and Pope Pius II
0:48.8	would have all these men have in common.
0:51.2	Well, each of them had a piece of their work or two
0:54.8	placed on to the Roman Catholic Church's index
0:57.6	leborium prohibiton or the index of prohibited books
1:01.8	an actual list of banned books.
1:04.4	But who made these decisions and what made a text bad enough
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