Fray Bartolomé de las Casas y el oficio de defensor de indios en América y en la Corte española

The objective of the present study is to highlight the role played by Fray Bartolomé de las Casas in the process of defining the office of the defensor de indios –Defender of the Indians– in the Americas and in the Council of the Indies in Spain. We pretend to demonstrate that what was at stake was...

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Main Author: Caroline Cunill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2012-09-01
Series:Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/63939