Title The Americas in the Spanish world order : the justification for conquest in the seventeenth century / James Muldoon

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1994]

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Description 1 online resource Contents 1. The law of Christian-infidel relations : the Spanish title to the new world -- 2. To civilize the barbarian-the anthropology and 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 Summary 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. In this work he not only drew on traditional legal and the logical materials used to defend the conquest, but also employed anthropology and history to compare the social and political development of the New World with that of the Old. His work, with 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. The Americas in the Spanish World Order offers a sophisticated evaluation of the significance of the legal and theological debates that attended the Spanish conquest of the New World. It will be of interest to students and scholars of medieval and early modern Spanish and legal history Analysis Christianity and politics Latin America Politics and government To 1830 Law Spain Colonies History Solórzano Pereira, Juan de 1575-1655 De Indiarum jure Spain Colonies America Administration Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Solórzano Pereira, Juan de, 1575-1655. De Indiarum jure. SUBJECT Solórzano Pereira, Juan de, 1575-1655. De Indiarum jure Solórzano Pereira, Juan de 1575-1655 gnd Solórzano Pereira, Juan de 1575-1655 Disputationes de Indiarum iure gnd Solórzano Pereira, Juan de. Disputationes de Indiarum iure. swd Solórzano Pereira, Juan de. swd De Indiarum jure (Solórzano Pereira, Juan de) fast Subject Law -- Spain -- Colonies -- History Christianity and politics. Spanish colonies Christianity and politics Colonies -- Administration Politics and government Law -- Spanish colonies Kolonie Eroberung Lateinamerikas Politik Recht Verwaltung Veroveringen. Wereldbeeld. SUBJECT Latin America -- Politics and government -- To 1830. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074912 Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration Subject America Latin America Lateinamerika Spanien Lateinamerika -- Eroberung. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 93050529 ISBN 1512809578 9781512809572

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