Juan Solórzano Pereira
26 Pages
Posted: 24 Mar 2017
Last revised: 31 Mar 2017
Florida International University (FIU) - College of Law
Date Written: 2017
Abstract
This biography of the seventeenth-century jurist Juan Solórzano Pereira analyzes his major writings with particular focus on his justifications of Spanish activity in the Americas. The study addresses his views of papal authority, indigenous peoples, and Spanish rule through his use of Roman Catholic sources and doctrine.
Keywords: Juan Solórzano Pereira, indigenous people, Salamanca, scholasticism, conquest, royal patronage
JEL Classification: K00
Suggested Citation:
Suggested Citation
Mirow, M. C., Juan Solórzano Pereira (2017). in Rafael Domingo and Javier Martinez-Torron, Great Christian Jurists in Spanish History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) (Forthcoming); Florida International University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-07. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2939072
