Lawrence A. Clayton

Bartolome de las Casas (eBook, ePUB)

A Biography

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Dominican priest Bartolome de las Casas (1485-1566) was a prominent chronicler of the early Spanish conquest of the Americas, a noted protector of the American Indians and arguably the most significant figure in the early Spanish Empire after Christopher Columbus. Following an epiphany in 1514, Las Casas fought the Spanish control of the Indies for the rest of his life, writing vividly about the brutality of the Spanish conquistadors. Once a settler and exploiter of the American Indians, he became their defender, breaking ground for the modern human rights movement. Las Casas brought his understanding of Christian scripture to the forefront in his defense of the Indians, challenging the premise that the Indians of the New World were any less civilized or capable of practising Christianity than Europeans. Bartolome de las Casas: A Biography is the first major English-language and scholarly biography of Las Casas' life in a generation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139507967
• Artikelnr.: 37878379

Autorenporträt

Lawrence Clayton is Professor Emeritus of History, University of Alabama. His latest books include Bartolome de las Casas: A Biography (2012), Bartolome de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas (2011), and Cleared for Landing: On Living a Christian Life (2008). He has taught in the Tuscaloosa County Jail Ministry on a weekly basis since 2000 and done missionary work, evangelizing, and preaching in Spanish in the Dominican Republic and Honduras since 2010.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Seville and early modern Spain
2. To the Indies
3. The genesis of the Black Legend
4. Conversion
5. Protector of the Indians
6. 'Micer' Las Casas at court looking for good Spanish peasants
7. Las Casas, the political animal
8. Catastrophe in Tierra Firme and the 'long sleep' in Puerto Plata
9. Coming out to battle
10. The new laws
11. Bishop of Chiapas
12. The great debate
13. Court activist and historian
14. The final fights.