A companion to early modern Spanish imperial political and social thought / / edited by Jörg Alejandro Tellkamp.

"This Companion aims to give an up-to-date overview of the historical context and the conceptual framework of Spanish imperial expansion during the early modern period, mostly during the 16th century. It intends to offer a nuanced and balanced account of the complexities of this historically co...

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Superior document:Brill's Companions to European History ; Volume 21
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Brill's companions to European history ; Volume 21.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Historical foundations
  • Spanish theories of Empire : a Catholic and polycentric monarchy / Manuel Herrero Sánchez
  • Before Vitoria : expansion into heathen, empty, or disputed lands in late Mediaeval Salamanca writings and early 16th-century juridical treatises / José Luis Egío and Christiane Birr / The "School of Salamanca" and the American project / Miguel Anxo Pena González
  • Part 2. Towards new normative orders
  • Colonial law: Early Modern normativity in Spanish America / Tamar Herzog
  • Natural law and natural right in the Spanish scholasticism / Merio Scattola
  • Dominion rights : their development and meaning in the history of human rights / Virpi Mäkinen
  • Princes and prices. Regulating the grain market in scholastic economic thought / Wim Decock
  • Part 3. Ethics and politics of the Conquest and colonization
  • Conquista and the just war / Christian Schäfer
  • The Debate of Valladolid (1550-1551) : background, discussions, and results of the debate between Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda and Bartolomé de las Casas / Francisco Castilla Urbano
  • Caramuel on the right of discovery / Daniel Schwartz
  • Spanish colonialism as perpetual dominion in the writings of Juan Solórzano y Pereira / Felipe Castañeda
  • The debate over the enslavement of Indians and Africans in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century Spanish Empire / Luis Perdices de Blas and José Luis Ramos-Gorostiza
  • The "New World" : the shaping of utopia / Beatriz Fernández Herrero