Cognoscer todas y tan infinitas naciones : an analysis on written essay of the Bartolome de Las Casas Apologetica Historia Sumaria : (1522-1559) / Cognoscer todas y tan infinitas naciones : uma analise sobre as fontes e a composição da Apologetica Historia Sumaria de Bartolome de Las Casas : (1522-1559)

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

This study is an analysis on Dominican Bartolomé de Las Casas Apologética Historia Sumaria. It is a thesis about the American continent and its natives, finished in 1550 s. His approaches and the wellspring of information that had been used by the friar were our first object. We decided to specify his written essay, which was responsible for other representation of the indigenes that supplements the ingenuous people s notion of the Brevísima Relación de Desctrucción de las Indias, his best known work. The main topics that we considered were: the analogy between nature and habitant to justify his rhetoric Indian support; the historical documents selected; the Indian republics concept, which was used to put on the same level American and European people; and the religious controversies. Therefore, we discussed those points of the Apologética, to try to comprehend the development of the Las Casas purpose

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cronicas - historia e critica christianity chronicles cristianismo - america latina

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