Reevaluating the School of Salamanca in Transatlantic and Global Perspective a special issue of Estudios Filosóficos, 2023
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The Society for Lascasian Studies, in collaboration with Estudios Filosoficos, invites submission of papers for a collaborative special volume, Reevaluating the School of Salamanca in Transatlantic and Global Perspective. As Iberia’s overseas jurisdictions and economic activities expanded, the intellectual equilibrium forged through many centuries of reconquista required radical reinvention. The novelty of the encounter with new peoples and unknown lands challenged jurists, economists, natural scientists, theologians, philosophers, poets, writers, artists, architects, artists, linguists, architects, musicians, and historians to reformulate traditions in creative and unexpected ways.
The School of Salamanca Project is creating a new textual basis and reflection upon this uniquely fertile constellation of actors. Abundant recent works have addressed the Salamantine contributions to ius gentium, conceptions of time, just war, and economic liberty, among others. We hope that this special collaborative journal volume will continue this conversation and expand our understanding of this fertile intellectual movement.
We welcome reevaluations of established themes such as sovereignty, jurisdiction, just war, natural law, and ius gentium. We also invite contributions that seek to capture the conversation between the Salamancan School and the ongoing encounter with new lands, peoples, and economies. Possible topics include but are not limited to: the nature of the state, political and social boundaries, humanism, just price, economic doctrine, money and usury, free trade (navigatio, conversatio), religious reform (including nascent Protestantism), indigenous self-understanding and fashioning, literary and artistic expression, the thomistic tradition, late scholasticism, scientific knowledge, etc.
We especially appreciate papers that touch upon the life, labor, and legacy of Bartolomé de Las Casas as well as the Dominican intellectual milieu that shaped this friar and bishop’s multilayered Indian advocacy.
Please submit papers in accordance with the Estudios Filosóficos guidelines to submissions@lascasianstudies.org, with “Estudios Filosóficos” as the subject line. Exceptionally for this issue, English contributions will also be accepted.
The deadline is July 1, 2023.
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