Invincible ignorance and the discovery of the Americas: the history of an idea from Scotus to Suárez

The dissertation addresses the impact of the medieval notion of what scholastic theologians termed "invincible ignorance" upon later Spanish attitudes toward and actual treatment of their New World Indian subjects. Once sixteenth-century theologians expanded the range of topics of which &q...

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Main Author: Laemers, Jeroen Willem Joseph
Other Authors: Tachau, Katherine H.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2011
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Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4674
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5190&context=etd