3. Social Experiments

The Hieronymite Mission and the Universal Protector of All the Indians

  1. Lawrence A. Clayton

Published Online: 21 MAR 2011

DOI: 10.1002/9781444392746.ch3

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) Social Experiments, in Bartolomé de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444392746.ch3

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:

  • social experiments, Hieronymite Mission - universal protector of all Indians;
  • order of the Hieronymites - Las Casas, and his return to the Indies;
  • Las Casas, accompanying the Hieronymite mission - reforming the Indies, on “liberty and good treatment and health of souls and bodies of the Indians”;
  • Montesinos, trained as a cleric and scholar - Las Casas, defending Indians with vigor;
  • Las Casas, writing of the Scripture - sought God's will;
  • Council of State, studying Las Casas's preliminary proposals;
  • Las Casas, vacillating between two major alternatives - incorporating “good influence” plan with an “exclusion” plan;
  • eternal lives of Indians, lost by actions of Spaniards - Las Casas, harangued by reluctant listeners;
  • Pedro Arias Dávila's expedition - better known as Pedrarias;
  • Pope Adrian VI, 1522–523 - Las Casas's ally for years when Adrian helped rule Castile
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