The Americas in the Spanish World Order : : The Justification for Conquest in the Seventeenth Century / / James Muldoon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Muldoon, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Juan de Solorzano Pereira (1575-1654) was a lawyer who spent eighteen years as a judge in Peru before returning to Spain to serve on the Councils of Castile and of the Indies. Considered one of the finest lawyers in Spain, his work, De Indiarum Jure, was the most sophisticated defense of the Spanish conquest of the Americas ever written, and he was widely cited in Europe and the Americas until the early nineteenth century.His work, and that of the Spanish School of international law theorists generally, is often seen as leading to Hugo Grotius and modern international law. However, as James Muldoon shows, the De Indiarum Jure represents the fullest development of a medieval Catholic theory of international order that provided an alternative to the Grotian theory.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Law of Christian-Infidel Relations: The Spanish Tide to the New World -- 2. To Civilize the Barbarian - The Anthropology and the History -- 3. The Mechanics of Political Evolution -- 4. The Mechanics of Political Evolution - The Natural Law -- 5. A Legitimate Claim to the Indies - The Theory of Papal Power -- 6. A Legitimate Claim to the Indies - Papal Jurisdiction over the Infidels -- 7. A Legitimate Claim to the Indies - The History of Papal-Royal Relations -- 8. Order and Harmony Among Nations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter