The School of Salamanca in the Affairs of the Indies: Barbarism and Political Order

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Natsuko Matsumori (University of Shizuoka, Japan)

The School of Salamanca in the Affairs of the Indies

Barbarism and Political Order

Natsuko Matsumori (University of Shizuoka, Japan)

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English

Routledge
23 October 2018

European history; Asian history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Maritime history; Economic history

Series: Routledge Research in Early Modern History

The School of Salamanca in the Affairs of the Indies explores the significance of Salamancans, such as Vitoria and Soto, and related thinkers, such as Las Casas and Sepúlveda, in the formation of the early modern political order. It also analyses early modern understandings of political order, with a focus both on the decline of the medieval universal world through the independence and secularization of political community and the establishment of continuous and imbalanced relations between various European and non-European political communities.

Through its investigation, this book highlights how Salamancans and related thinkers clearly distinguished their understandings of political order from medieval thought, and did so in a different way to contemporary and later thinkers, such as Machiavelli, Luther, Bodin, and Grotius, particularly with regards to the Indies, “barbarian” worlds. It also reveals the strong contribution of the School of Salamanca in early modern political thought, both internally and externally. Salamancans imposed moral restrictions against “interior barbarism,” that is, power beyond law, and included “exterior barbarism,” that is, “barbarian” societies, in the common political order.

Situating the School of Salamanca in the mainstream history of European political thought, The School of Salamanca in the Affairs of the Indies is ideal for academics and postgraduate students of intellectual history and of Spanish colonial expansion.

By: Natsuko Matsumori (University of Shizuoka Japan)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 585g
ISBN: 9781138960978
ISBN 10: 1138960977
Series: Routledge Research in Early Modern History
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 23 October 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter I: The Early-Modern Understanding of Political Order and the School of Salamanca; Chapter II: Reason and Prudence: The Nature of the Indians; Chapter III: Power, Commonwealth, and the Law of Nations: The Legitimacy of the Spanish Dominion over the Indies; Chapter IV: Conditions of Just War: The Conquest of the Indies; Chapter V: Significance and Problems of the Salamancan Understanding of Political Order

Natsuko Matsumori is Associate Professor of Political Thought at the University of Shizuoka, Japan. She researches the scholastic influence on the formation of the early-modern political order and her previous publications include Civilización y barbarie (2005, in Spanish) and From Barbarism to Order (2009, in Japanese).