You Can't Read This by Val Ross

Author:Val Ross
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781770490864
Publisher: Tundra
Published: 2006-03-19T07:00:00+00:00

There are many versions of the story of the magic book Raudskinna and Eirikur, a real person who lived in the 1600s and later became a famous Christian bishop. What really happened in Eirikur’s search for knowledge, we have no way of knowing. But the legend of Raudskinna is not only a version of the struggle between Iceland’s old religion and the new; it is also a way of telling of each reader’s struggle to judge whether the contents of a book are evil or useful.

This struggle has gone on since the dawn of the written word. In 1559, just before the time of Eirikur, the Vatican issued its Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the Catholic Church’s official list of forbidden books. On the list were Martin Luther and William Tyndale, and books thought to contain magic. One, The Book of Secrets of Albertus Magnus, was actually just a collection of herbal remedies compiled by a helpful monk around 1250. But by 1605 those herbal remedies looked like satanic potions, and The Book of Secrets went on the index.

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