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I would like to add to Tom's biographical notes:
Tom O'Meara, 'The Dominican school at Salamanca and the Spanish Conquest of
America: some Bibliographical notes' in The Thomist 56 (1992), 555f
The Dominican professors at Salamanca were in close contact with their
fellow brothers who were missionaries in Hispaniola (in particular at the
Priory of S. Esteban in Salamanca). Many of these professors were rather
critical of the practices of the conquistadores and Spanish authorities in
the West and they used Aquinas' views (in particular on natural law, but
also on grace and his political theory) to defend the rights of the
'Indians'. Cf. also Tom O'Meara, 'The School of Thomism at Salamanca and the
Presence of Grace in the Americas' , Angelicum 71 (1994), 321-70.
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> Van: Tom Izbicki [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Verzonden: woensdag 19 februari 2003 22:58
> Aan: [log in to unmask]
> Onderwerp: Re: [M-R] language systems & missionaries
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> We must remember that the Aztecs & Maya had writing systems. We lost most
>
> of the llatter to Bishop Landa's zeal to purge away paganerrors, but
> Bernardino de Sahagun and his confereres did much to preserve and
> interpret
> Aztecs codies. Some of them still survive.
>
> On Sublimis deus, see L. Hanke, "Pope Paul III and the American Indians,"
> Harvard Theological Review 30 (1937): 65-102.
>
> On the perils of Western translations of the gospel in Nahua, see
> Burkhart,
> Louise M., The slippery earth : Nahua-Christian moral dialogue in
> sixteenth-century Mexico (Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1989)
>
> On Bernardino, see Bernardino de Sahagun, first anthropologist / Miguel
> León-Portilla ; translation by Mauricio J. Mixco. (Norman : University of
> Oklahoma Press, c2002).
>
> For his larger Franciscan context, see The millennial kingdom of the
> Franciscans in the New World. / John Leddy Phelan, 2d ed. rev.
> (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1970).
>
> Tom Izbicki
>
> At 04:42 PM 2/19/2003 -0300, CF wrote:
> >medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> >
> >Not my area of expertise, either, but I think it was a Franciscan,
> >Bernardino de Sahagún, who first put in writing the language spoken by
> some
> >of the the natives of Nueva España (New Spain, today's Mexico).
> >And I think it was Bartolomé de las Casas who argued that indians had
> souls,
> >and although both of them were from the 16thC, neither of them was in
> South
> >America.
> >
> >Christina
> >
> >
> >
> >Not my area of expertise, but didn't a 16th C Dominican make a writing
> >system for an indigenous South American language... later (back in Spain)
> >arguing that the "indians" must have souls, since they had a fully
> developed
> >human language...
> >Others will know more of this.
> >TGD
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