Apostasy, usurpation, and biblical genealogies: The question of sovereignty in Iberian encounters in the tropics (15th-16th centuries).
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https://doi.org/10.1344/PEDRALBES.40.7Keywords:
sovereignty, just war, slavery, Juan López de Palacios Rubios, Bartolomé de Las Casas, curse of HamAbstract
This article examines several theaters of encounter between Iberians and non-Abrahamic Gentiles, specifically the Americas, the Canary Islands, and West Africa. Drawing on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century writings, the piece addresses early modern Iberians’ disparate views on the capacity of non-Christians to hold dominium; on Iberians’ understanding of the geographical reach of early Christianity and the implications that held for early modern political claims, and on Iberians’ readings of biblical genealogies and what weight those carried in legal arguments concerning sovereignty and slavery.
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