Utopia in early modern Portugal and Spain: The censorship of a nest of vipers

The present investigation lies within the framework of both kinds of censorship, prohibitive and expurgatory. The issues of microcensorship, whatever the field, are commonly approached in a national per-spective that is from the point of view of local Indexes. Fernando Moser and Pina Martins paid attention to More’s censorship in Portugal (Moser, 1983); in the field of history of science censorship in Spain, José Pardo Tomás published a book reference in 1989. Moser and Martins used exclusively the Portuguese Indexes of 1581 and 1624 in the first case; Tomás, exclusively the Spanish ones (1584, 1612, 1632 and 1640). This study requires a more multilateral approach.