BOOK: Jörg TELLKAMP, ed., A Companion to Early Modern Spanish Imperial, Political and Social Thought (Leiden-New York: Brill, 2020). ISBN 978-90-04-41279-8, €156.00

(Source: Brill)

Brill has published a companion to early modern Spanish imperial political and social thought.

ABOUT THE BOOK

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. 

Contributors are Manuel Herrero Sánchez, José Luis Egío, Christiane Birr, Miguel Anxo Pena González, Tamar Herzog, Merio Scattola, Virpi Mäkinen, Wim Decock, Christian Schäfer, Francisco Castilla Urbano, Daniel Schwartz, Felipe Castañeda, José Luis Ramos Gorostiza, Luis Perdices de Blas, Beatriz Fernández Herrero.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Jörg Alejandro Tellkamp (Ph.D. 1997; University Halle-Wittenberg) is Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. His current research focuses on the normative language of the School of Salamanca and its influence in 16th-century Mexico.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

By: Jörg Alejandro Tellkamp

Pages: 1–13

Historical Foundations

Spanish Theories of Empire: A Catholic and Polycentric Monarchy

By: Manuel Herrero Sánchez

Before Vitoria: Expansion into Heathen, Empty, or Disputed Lands in Late-Mediaeval Salamanca Writings and Early 16th-Century Juridical Treatises

By: José Luis Egío and Christiane Birr

The “School of Salamanca” and the American Project

By: Miguel Anxo Pena González

Pages: 78–101

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Towards New Normative Orders

Colonial Law: Early Modern Normativity in Spanish America

By: Tamar Herzog

Natural Law and Natural Right in the Spanish Scholasticism

By: Merio Scattola ✝

Dominion Rights: Their Development and Meaning in the History of Human Rights

By: Virpi Mäkinen

Princes and Prices: Regulating the Grain Market in Scholastic Economic Thought

By: Wim Decock

Ethics and Politics of the Conquest and Colonization

Conquista and the Just War

By: 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

By: Francisco Castilla Urbano

Caramuel on the Right of Discovery

By: Daniel Schwartz

Spanish Colonialism as Perpetual Dominion in the Writings of Juan Solórzano Pereira

By: Felipe Castañeda

The Debate over the Enslavement of Indians and Africans in the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Empire

By: Luis Perdices de Blas and José Luis Ramos Gorostiza

The “New World”: The Shaping of Utopia

By: Beatriz Fernández Herrero

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