During all periods, individuals and communities communicating their knowledge, findings, ideas, principles and visions encountered forces that wanted to control, direct and limit the flow of knowledge and ideas through various pressures: they demanded changes in texts, confiscated and burned books, and in some cases, also convicted, extradited and executed the authors of books. Irrespective of various rigorous censorship policies and lists of illicit literature, readers had always found the way to disputed books.
The exhibition
And Yet They Read Them to be seen from July 17 to September 15, is a joint project of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) and NUK. It represents the background, structure, significance and history of the Pope's index and other censorship lists. On view are selected works from the NUK collection, in the past marked as religiously, morally or politically controversial, thus put on the censorship lists.