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Book SynopsisOver the past few decades, a growing number of studies have highlighted the importance of the ‘School of Salamanca’ for the emergence of colonial normative regimes and the formation of a language of normativity on a global scale. According to this influential account, American and Asian actors usually appear as passive recipients of normative knowledge produced in Europe. This book proposes a different perspective and shows, through a knowledge historical approach and several case studies, that the School of Salamanca has to be considered both an epistemic community and a community of practice that cannot be fixed to any individual place. Instead, the School of Salamanca encompassed a variety of different sites and actors throughout the world and thus represents a case of global knowledge production. Contributors are: Adriana Álvarez, Virginia Aspe, Marya Camacho, Natalie Cobo, Thomas Duve, José Luis Egío, Dolors Folch, Enrique González González, Lidia Lanza, Esteban Llamosas, Osvaldo R. Moutin, and Marco Toste.
Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 The School of Salamanca A Case of Global Knowledge Production Thomas Duve 2 Salamanca in the New World University Regulation or Social Imperatives? Enrique González González 3 Observance against Ambition The Struggle for the Chancellor’s Office at the Real Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala (1686–1696) Adriana Álvarez Sánchez 4 The Influence of Salamanca in the Iberian Peninsula The Case of the Faculties of Theology of Coimbra and Évora Lidia Lanza and Marco Toste 5 From Fray Alonso de la Vera Cruz to Fray Martín de Rada The School of Salamanca in Asia Dolors Folch 6 Creating Authority and Promoting Normative Behaviour Confession, Restitution, and Moral Theology in the Synod of Manila (1582–1586) Natalie Cobo 7 “Sepamos, Señores, en que ley vivimos y si emos de tener por nuestra regla al Consejo de Indias”. Salamanca in the Philippine Islands Osvaldo R. Moutin 8 “Mirando las cosas de cerca”: Indigenous Marriage in the Philippines in the Light of Law and Legal Opinions (17th – 18th Centuries) Marya Camacho 9 The Influence of the School of Salamanca in Alonso de la Vera Cruz’s De Dominio Infidelium Et Iusto Bello First Relectio in America Virginia Aspe 10 Producing Normative Knowledge between Salamanca and Michoacán Alonso de la Vera Cruz and the Bumpy Road of Marriage José Luis Egío 11 Legal Education at the University of Córdoba (1767–1821). From the Colony to the Homeland A Reinterpretation of the Salamanca Tradition from a New Context Esteban Llamosas Index
