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| Author: | Karl Laemmermann | ISBN: | 1230000157503 |
| Publisher: | Heinz Duthel | Publication: | July 31, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Karl Laemmermann |
| ISBN: | 1230000157503 |
| Publisher: | Heinz Duthel |
| Publication: | July 31, 2013 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Banned books are books to which free access is not permitted. The practice of banning books is a form of book
censorship, and often has political, religious or moral motivations.
The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery-detective novel written by Dan Brown. It follows symbologist Robert
Langdon and Sophie Neveu as they investigate a murder in Paris's Louvre Museum and discover a battle between the
Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus having been married to Mary Magdalene. The title of the
novel refers to, among other things, the fact that the murder victim is found in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre,
naked and posed like Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing, the Vitruvian Man, with a cryptic message written beside
his body and a pentacle drawn on his chest in his own blood.
The novel is part of the exploration of alternative religious history, whose central plot point is that the Merovingian
kings of France were descendants from the bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, ideas derived from Clive
Prince's The Templar Revelation (1997) and books by Margaret Starbird. Chapter 60 of the book also references
another book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (1982) though Dan Brown has stated that this was not used as
research material.
The book has provoked a popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail legend and Magdalene's role in
the history of Christianity. The book has been extensively denounced by many Christian denominations as an attack
on the Roman Catholic Church. It has also been consistently criticized for its historical and scientific inaccuracies.
The novel nonetheless became a worldwide bestseller[2] that sold 80 million copies as of 2009[3] and has been
translated into 44 languages. Combining the detective, thriller, and conspiracy fiction genres, it is Brown's second
novel to include the character Robert Langdon, the first being his 2000 novel Angels & Demons. In November 2004,
Random House published a Special Illustrated Edition with 160 illustrations. In 2006, a film adaptation was released
by Sony's Columbia Pictures.
Banned books are books to which free access is not permitted. The practice of banning books is a form of book
censorship, and often has political, religious or moral motivations.
The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery-detective novel written by Dan Brown. It follows symbologist Robert
Langdon and Sophie Neveu as they investigate a murder in Paris's Louvre Museum and discover a battle between the
Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus having been married to Mary Magdalene. The title of the
novel refers to, among other things, the fact that the murder victim is found in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre,
naked and posed like Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing, the Vitruvian Man, with a cryptic message written beside
his body and a pentacle drawn on his chest in his own blood.
The novel is part of the exploration of alternative religious history, whose central plot point is that the Merovingian
kings of France were descendants from the bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, ideas derived from Clive
Prince's The Templar Revelation (1997) and books by Margaret Starbird. Chapter 60 of the book also references
another book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (1982) though Dan Brown has stated that this was not used as
research material.
The book has provoked a popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail legend and Magdalene's role in
the history of Christianity. The book has been extensively denounced by many Christian denominations as an attack
on the Roman Catholic Church. It has also been consistently criticized for its historical and scientific inaccuracies.
The novel nonetheless became a worldwide bestseller[2] that sold 80 million copies as of 2009[3] and has been
translated into 44 languages. Combining the detective, thriller, and conspiracy fiction genres, it is Brown's second
novel to include the character Robert Langdon, the first being his 2000 novel Angels & Demons. In November 2004,
Random House published a Special Illustrated Edition with 160 illustrations. In 2006, a film adaptation was released
by Sony's Columbia Pictures.
