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

Daniel Allemann (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

2026
Martinus Nijhoff (Verlag)
978-90-04-76058-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.6.2026
Reihe/Serie	Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds ; 7
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-76058-X / 900476058X
ISBN-13	978-90-04-76058-5 / 9789004760585
Zustand	Neuware