The Transatlantic Las Casas : : Historical Trajectories, Indigenous Cultures, Scholastic Thought, and Reception in History / / Rady Roldán-Figueroa and David Thomas Orique.

• Superior document: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions ; 198
• VerfasserIn: Roldán-Figueroa, Rady,; Orique, David Thomas,
• TeilnehmendeR: Orique, David Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023.; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions ; 198.; Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2023.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (545 pages)

The Transatlantic Las Casas demonstrates the vitality of Lascasian studies. An impressive ensemble of scholars spanning the fields of Latin American studies, philosophy, theology, anthropology, law, literary criticism, and ethnohistory illuminate the complex intellectual web surrounding this controversial figure. This volume offers sophisticated explorations of colonial Latin American and early modern Iberian studies in a single volume from Laura Ammon; Thomas Eggensperger, O.P.; Natsuko Matsumori; Timothy A. McCallister; Luis Mora Rodríguez; David Thomas Orique, O.P.; María Cristina Ríos Espinosa; Rady Roldán-Figueroa; Mario Ruíz Sotelo; Frauke Sachse; Rubén A. Sánchez-Godoy; John F. Schwaller; Garry Sparks; Vanina M. Teglia; Dwight E.R. TenHuisen; Paola Uparela; Ramón Darío Valdivia Giménez; Andrew L. Wilson, and Victor Zorrilla.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Rady Roldán-Figueroa, David Thomas Orique O.P. -- Copyright Page / Rady Roldán-Figueroa, David Thomas Orique O.P. -- Dedication / Rady Roldán-Figueroa, David Thomas Orique O.P. -- Preface / Rady Roldán-Figueroa, David Thomas Orique O.P. -- Acknowledgments / Rady Roldán-Figueroa, David Thomas Orique O.P. -- Abbreviations / Rady Roldán-Figueroa, David Thomas Orique O.P. -- Notes on Contributors / Rady Roldán-Figueroa, David Thomas Orique O.P. -- Introduction: The Past and Present of Lascasian Studies / Rady Roldán-Figueroa, David Thomas Orique O.P. -- Chapter 1 The Conflicted Humanitarianism of the Spanish Colonial Government: Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain and the Impact of Las Casas / John F. Schwaller -- Chapter 2 “Multiplicarse ha la tierra de gente y de fruto”: Gender and Re-production in Las Casas’s and Guaman Poma’s Biopolitical Projects (1516, 1615) / Paola Uparela -- Chapter 3 (Mis)Appropriating the Authoritative Bishop of Chiapa: Calancha and His Translators as Readers of Las Casas / Dwight E. R. TenHuisen -- Chapter 4 Francisco Tenamaztle, Bartolomé de las Casas and the Role of Translation in the Construction of a Legal Case Before the Consejo de Indias (1555–1556) / Rubén A. Sánchez-Godoy -- Chapter 5 Books and/as Idols: Affective Discourse in Early Colonial Dominican and Maya Writings / Garry Sparks -- Chapter 6 Las Casas and the Divine Social Orders of the Indigenous Americas / Frauke Sachse -- Chapter 7 The Pontifical Theocracy of Friar Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P. (1484–1566) / Ramón Darío Valdivia Jiménez -- Chapter 8 Prudentia : Thomas Aquinas Interpreted by Bartolomé de Las Casas / Thomas Eggensperger O.P. -- Chapter 9 Moral Uncertainty and Doubt in the Affairs of the Indies: Vitoria, Las Casas, and Medina on Difficult Cases of Conscience / Víctor Zorrilla -- Chapter 10 “ No Greater nor More Arduous Step ”: Lactantius, Las Casas, and Continuity in Christian Rhetoric about Conversion / Laura Ammon -- Chapter 11 Reason and the Monstrous: Las Casas’s Appeal to the imago dei / Timothy A. McCallister -- Chapter 12 Hospitality or Property? The Natural Right of Communication and the “New World” / Natsuko Matsumori -- Chapter 13 The Epistemology of Bartolomé de Las Casas: An Introduction / David Thomas Orique O.P. -- Chapter 14 Bartolomé de las Casas and the Foundation of Latin American Philosophy / Mario Ruiz Sotelo -- Chapter 15 Las Casas’s Apologética historia sumaria and His Vision of the Other / Luis Mora Rodríguez -- Chapter 16 Political Hermeneutics of Utopias in Europe and the Americas: Thomas More, Bartolomé de las Casas, Vasco de Quiroga / María Cristina Ríos Espinosa -- Chapter 17 The 1516 Project for the Colonization of the Indies: The Simulacrum of a Utopia / Vanina M. Teglia -- Chapter 18 Beyond the “Black Legend”: The Reception History of Las Casas in Late Sixteenth-Century England / Rady Roldán-Figueroa, David Thomas Orique O.P. -- Chapter 19 Enlightenment and Revolutionary Uses of Las Casas from Charlesvoix to Pancho Villa / Andrew L. Wilson -- Lascasian Bibliography / Rady Roldán-Figueroa, David Thomas Orique O.P. -- Index / Rady Roldán-Figueroa.