Empires of Slavery: Rights and Power in the Early Modern Iberian World - Couverture rigide

Allemann, Daniel

 
9789004760585: Empires of Slavery: Rights and Power in the Early Modern Iberian World
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 900476058X ISBN 13 : 9789004760585
Editeur : Martinus Nijhoff, 2026

Synopsis

Enslavement was central to the early modern Iberian empires. No one at the time seriously questioned its legality, yet widespread reports of violent practices of captivity and human trafficking contrasted sharply with the Christian ideal of charity. This volume explores how Spanish and Portuguese theologians, jurists, and missionaries grappled with this moral dilemma. These thinkers developed ideological tools to protect the souls of those who appeared to be in a state of mortal damnation. Slavery prompted Iberian intellectuals to rethink the boundaries between property and person, law and religion, and household and commonwealth. By reconstructing these debates, this volume offers a new narrative about the relationship between individual rights and political power in the early modern Iberian world.

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À propos de l'auteur

Daniel Allemann, Ph.D. (2020), University of Cambridge, is Scientific Collaborator at the University of Geneva. A historian of the late medieval and early modern periods, he studies how intellectual traditions shaped ideas of empire, rights, and religion. He co-edited Conceptions of Space in Intellectual History (2018).

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Éditeur
Martinus Nijhoff
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
900476058X
ISBN 13 
9789004760585
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
300
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Personne responsable
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