2. Justice for All

  1. Lawrence A. Clayton

Published Online: 21 MAR 2011

DOI: 10.1002/9781444392746.ch2

Book Title

Bartolomé de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas

Bartolomé de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas

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How to Cite

Clayton, L. A. (2010) Justice for All, in Bartolomé de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444392746.ch2

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 21 MAR 2011
  2. Published Print: 31 DEC 2010

Book Series:

  1. Viewpoints/Puntos de Vista

Book Series Editors:

  1. Jürgen Buchenau

ISBN Information

Print ISBN: 9781405194273

Online ISBN: 9781444392746

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Keywords:

  • justice for all;
  • Las Casas, sensing an emerging order - seriously flawed, shocked at brutality and callousness of Spaniards;
  • burning heretics and catapulting Muslim body parts - into besieged cities, a practice at home for Christian warriors during the Reconquest;
  • The Black Legend, depicted by Protestants - helped fuel anti-Spanish sentiments, among Spain's European rivals;
  • Las Casas invoking reason, natural law, positive divine law - human laws to affirm his position;
  • Las Casas, into a new dimension of life - motivated by compassion and Scripture;
  • Father Montesinos' sermon - The Dominicans, prayed, fasted, and meditated fervently;
  • conquest of the Americas, and Montesinos - stunging hearers with rhetorical questions, indicting their motives and actions;
  • Spanish campaign in Cuba - a hunt for the Taino chieftain Hatuey;
  • Father Pedro de Córdoba, the saintly, self-sacrificing Dominican - first to preach against the Conquest

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Discovering his calling

  • Father Montesinos' sermon

  • Las Casas goes to Cuba

  • To Spain

  • Meeting Ferdinand

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