A Companion to Early Modern Spanish Imperial Political and Social Thought

"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 controversial period analyzing first its historical underpinnings, then shedding light on the normative language behind imperial theorizing and finally discussing issues that arose with the experience of the conquest of American polities, such as colonialism, slavery or utopia. The aim of this volume is to uncover the structural and normative elements of the theological, legal and philosophical arguments about Spanish imperial ambitions in the early modern period"-- Provided by publisher Contents Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Part 1 Historical Foundations Chapter 1 Spanish Theories of Empire: A Catholic and Polycentric Monarchy Chapter 2 Before Vitoria: Expansion into Heathen, Empty, or Disputed Lands in Late-Mediaeval Salamanca Writings and Early 16th-Century Juridical Treatises Chapter 3 The “School of Salamanca” and the American Project Part 2 Towards New Normative Orders Chapter 4 Colonial Law: Early Modern Normativity in Spanish America Chapter 5 Natural Law and Natural Right in the Spanish Scholasticism Chapter 6 Dominion Rights: Their Development and Meaning in the History of Human Rights Chapter 7 Princes and Prices: Regulating the Grain Market in Scholastic Economic Thought Part 3 Ethics and Politics of the Conquest and Colonization Chapter 8 Conquista and the Just War Chapter 9 The Debate of Valladolid (1550–1551): Background, Discussions, and Results of the Debate between Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda and Bartoloméde las Casas Chapter 10 Caramuel on the Right of Discovery Chapter 11 Spanish Colonialism as Perpetual Dominion in the Writings of Juan Solórzano Pereira Chapter 12 The Debate over the Enslavement of Indians and Africans in the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Empire Chapter 13 The “New World”: The Shaping of Utopia General Bibliography Index of Historical Names Index of Modern Names Index of Subjects 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 This volume offers an account from a legal, theological and philosophical point of view of the historical and conceptual intricacies of the debates about the imperial expansion of the early modern Spanish monarchy.