The Roman catholic Church began keeping an index prohibited books from the mid 16th century give reason
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Popular religious literature and print culture stimulated religious interpretations of faith among little-educated working class in the 16th century.
A miller from Italy named as Menocchio started reading books that were available in the market. He began reinterpreting the message of the Bible by forming his own views about Jesus and Mary. Such act of reinterpretation outraged the Roman Catholic Church due to which Menocchio declared heretic and executed.
The effects of popular reading and questioning of faith caused trouble for Roman Church due to which Church started imposing severe control on booksellers and writers and Church also began to maintain an index of Prohibited books .
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