Question

why did the Roman Catholic Church impose controls for the publishers and booksellers

Answer 1

because the writtings of powerful writers depicted the reinterpretition of religious texts and everyone started questioning to the church  authorities for its rules and regulation and religious beliefs.

thus, to prevent people from questioning the ideas of church the church imposed control over publishers and booksellers

it even maintained an index of prohibited book in 1558

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

The roman catholic impose control over publishers and booksellers because many books were available locally and there was questioning of faith prompt by the easily available religious books.So, the church started keeping an index of prohibited books.Ex-Martin Luther's ninety five thesis.