Books /на англ. языке/

The books as the mass pastime have been ousted from our lives for several decades already.The books sold were books of prayers, didactic and secular (entertaining) books.One of the reasons of the success of the Reformation propaganda was the availability of books.In the reign of this cardinal the struggle with the educated thought and books reached its acme.When cardinal Caraffa became Pope Paul IV, he issued the first index of forbidden books in 1559.Books served as a weapon for fighting between the Catholic and the Reformist churches.Century reflected deadly on the fates of books in all countries.Thus, in Estonia, where books of spiritual contents in Estonian were issued in the 17.We may have the great honour to be present at the decline of printing as such.He was most probably interested in the matter of saving his soul.