Romans in a New World

Lupher, David A.

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“…First, interpretations of the historical significance of Las Casas' thought differ. While indeed some point to ways in which his work is entangled with empire in a roundabout way, others offer a thorough account of why that approach is insufficient to understand Lascasian thinking and its place in history (Lantigua 2020; Lupher 2006). Second, the resistance to Las Casas often appears rooted in a resistance to any form of universalism—insofar as opponents argue that universal claims inevitably involve imperialism of some form.…”

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Indigenous Sovereignty, Common Law, and Natural Law

Piccolo

2023

American J Political Sci

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Renewed calls for Indigenous sovereignty in North America have led some scholars to search Western philosophy for thinking that affirms these claims. Many suggest that the common law tradition offers resources to do so. In this article, I argue that common law is limited in its capacity to endorse Indigenous political legitimacy. Instead, I suggest that supportive elements in common law are trace remnants of natural law thinking. Further, natural law as a concept resonates with contemporary Indigenous philosophy that maintains that nonhuman nature is suffused with morality and normativity, making the natural law tradition worth considering for defenses of Indigenous sovereignty. I propose beginning with the work of Bartolomé de las Casas. While my aim is not to defend either Lascasian nor Indigenous natural law, I conclude that they should be part of efforts to understand the ongoing conflicts between Indigenous nations and colonial states.

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Indigenous Sovereignty, Common Law, and Natural Law

Piccolo

2023

American J Political Sci

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“…Several scholars (notably Lupher, 2003) have recognised the significance of classical antiquity for Spanish American history. This volume seeks to compare the spread of Christianity in the Roman world and the evangelization of Mesoamerica in the 1500s from a more theoretical, postcolonial perspective.…”

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Wright‐Carr, David Charles and Simón, Francisco Marco (eds.) (2023) From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico: Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire, University Press of Colorado (Denver, CO), x + 290 pp. hbk., $86.00 ebk. Open Access.

Laird

2024

Bull Latin American Res

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“…When it comes to Vitoria, some of the intellectual historians focusing on the discourse of imperium, most notably David Lupher, indeed emphasize that Vitoria can plausibly be interpreted as an 'apologist for Spanish imperialism'. 38 The problem, however, is that if we solely focus on Roman arguments we do end up with the conclusion that apart from Vitoria, the vast majority of the Spanish scholastic theologians, such as Domingo de Soto, Bartolomé Carranza de Miranda (1503-76), or Melchor Cano (1509-60) were critics of Spanish imperialism. 39 Instead of asking whether a given scholastic theologian was anti-or pro-imperial in a strictly Roman sense, I wish to adopt from recent post-colonial approaches to the School of Salamanca the awareness that empire is not solely articulated in and through traditional ideological and legal commonplaces.…”

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Empire and the Right to Preach the Gospel in the School of Salamanca, 1535–1560

Allemann

2018

Hist. J.

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The sixteenth-century theologians of the School of Salamanca are well known for their sophisticated reflections on the Spanish conquest of the New World. But the nature of their responses seems far from clear and is subject to historiographical debate. Recent studies from the discipline of intellectual history suggest that the Salmantine theologians challenged the legitimacy of Spanish claims to the Americas. Scholars associated with the field of post-colonial studies, on the other hand, forcefully stress their entanglement in Spain's imperial venture overseas. This article, however, argues that these seemingly irreconcilable approaches are not in fact mutually exclusive. It shifts our attention to the sorely neglected ius praedicandi, the right to preach the gospel, which served to translate the Spanish theologians’ deeply rooted belief in the hegemonic truth of the Christian faith into a discourse of otherwise ‘secular’ natural rights. In adopting this novel lens, the article makes a case for assessing the language of the university theologians in its own terms while simultaneously exposing the support of Salamanca for Spain's imperial venture.

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Romans in a New World

Cited by 30 publications

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Indigenous Sovereignty, Common Law, and Natural Law

Indigenous Sovereignty, Common Law, and Natural Law

Wright‐Carr, David Charles and Simón, Francisco Marco (eds.) (2023) From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico: Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire, University Press of Colorado (Denver, CO), x + 290 pp. hbk., $86.00 ebk. Open Access.

Empire and the Right to Preach the Gospel in the School of Salamanca, 1535–1560

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