ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the expurgatory policy of the Hispanic monarchy and the presence of history books on the Antwerp Index, published in 1571. The study of the expurgation of the works by Johannes Cuspinianus, Johannes Carion, and Sebastian Münster on the Antwerp Index demonstrates that the preference, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, for expurgating books rather than banning them corresponded to the Hispanic monarchy’s desire to set up its own censorship policy, different from the one in Rome. Likewise, the study shows, in particular, that the defence of the political and dynastic interests of the House of Austria dictated the expurgation criteria that enabled pro-imperial chronicles that had been prohibited by the Roman Inquisition to be put back into circulation.
