Research Catalog

Title

The transatlantic Las Casas : historical trajectories, indigenous cultures, scholastic thought, and reception in history / edited by Rady Roldán-Figueroa and David Thomas Orique, O.P.

Author

Roldán-Figueroa, Rady

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

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Details

Additional Authors

Orique, David Thomas, O.P., 1959-

Description

xxii, 523 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; volume 198

Uniform Title

Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 198.

Subject

• Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566 > Influence
• Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566 > Philosophy
• Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
• 1500-1599
• Indians, Treatment of > New Spain > History > 16th century
• Church work with Indians > Catholic Church
• Evangelistic work > Latin America > History > 16th century
• Missionaries > Spain > Biography
• Scholasticism > Latin America
• Evangelistic work
• Indians, Treatment of
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Intellectual life
• Missionaries
• Philosophy
• Scholasticism
• Church work with Indians
• Latin America > Intellectual life > History > 16th century
• New Spain > Intellectual life
• Latin America
• New Spain
• Spain

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: The past and present of Lascasian studies / Rady Roldán Figueroa and David Thomas Orique, O.P. -- Part 1 Trajectories of Las Casas's Heritage: New Spain and Peru -- 1 The conflicted humanitarianism of the Spanish Colonial Government: Late sixteenth-century New Spain and the impact of Las Casas / John F. Schwaller -- 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 -- 3 (Mis)Appropriating the authoritative Bishop of Chiapa: Calancha and his translators as readers of Las Casas / Dwight E. R. TenHuisen -- Part 2 Las Casas and indigenous cultures: Caxcan and K'iche'an Maya -- 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-Goday -- 5 Books and/as idols: Affective discourse in Early Colonial Dominican and Maya writings / Garry Sparks -- 6 Las Casas and the divine social orders of the indigenous Americas / Franke Sachse -- Part 3 Bartolomé de las Casas and Political and Moral Theology -- 7 The pontifical theocracy of Friar Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P. (1484-1566) / Ramón Darío Valdivia Jiménez -- 8 Prudontia: Thomas Aquinas interpreted by Bartolomé de Las Casas / Thomas Eggensperger, O.P. -- 9 Moral uncertainty and doubt in the affairs of the Indies: Vitoria, Las Casas, and Medina on difficult cases of conscience / Victor Zorrilla -- 10 "No Greater nor Mre Arduous Step": Lactantius, Las Casas, and continuity in Christian rhetoric about conversion / Laura Ammon -- 11 Reason and the monstrous: Las Casa's appeal to the imago dei / Timothy A. McCallister -- Part 4 Bartolomé de las Casas and Early Modern Philosophy -- 12 Hospitality or property? The natural right of communication and the "New World" / Nutsuko Mutsumori -- 13 The epistemology of Bartolomé de Las Casas: An introduction / David Thomas Orique, O.P. -- 14 Bartolomé de las Casas and the foundation of Latin American philosophy / Mario Ruiz Sotelo -- 15 Las Casas's Apologética historia sumaria and his vision of the other / Luis Mora Rodríguez -- Part 5 Historical Receptions of Las Casas: Utopians, the Black Legend, and Revolutionaries -- 16 Political hermeneutics of utopias in Europe and the Americas: Thomas Moore, Barolomé de las Casas, Vasco de Quiroga / Maria Cristina Ríos Espinosa -- 17 The 1516 Project for the Colonization of the Indies: The simulacrum of a utopia / Vanina M. Teglia -- 18 Beyond the "Black Legend": The reception history of Las Casas in late sixteenth-century England / Rady Rodán-Figueroa -- 19 Enlightenment and revolutionary uses of Las Casas from Charlesvoix to Pancho Villa / Andrew L. Wilson.

Call Number

JFE 23-2425

ISBN

• 9789004425149
• 9004425144
• 9789004515918 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022039003

OCLC

1335408285

Author

Roldán-Figueroa, Rady, author.

Title

The transatlantic Las Casas : historical trajectories, indigenous cultures, scholastic thought, and reception in history / edited by Rady Roldán-Figueroa and David Thomas Orique, O.P.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; volume 198

Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 198.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1500-1599

Added Author

Orique, David Thomas, O.P., 1959- author.

Other Form:

Online version: Roldán-Figueroa, Rady. Transatlantic Las Casas Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022 9789004515918 (DLC) 2022039004

Research Call Number

JFE 23-2425