The School of Salamanca and the New World

Research report (imported) 2011 - Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory

Authors
Birr, Christiane
Departments
Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main
Summary
Politics, legal thinking, and ethics on the threshold to modernity: how does one act in a highly complex world, in which good intentions manifest themselves all too often as atrocious deeds, and in which the tested and tried political procedures of yesteryear seem hopelessly inadequate for coping with today’s global problems? A project at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History studies the School of Salamanca and the Spanish discourse about the relationship between Europe and the non-European world in an early phase of globalisation in the 16th and 17th century.

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