Just ooc?

[orichalcum]

Two questions to judge whether I have a bad understanding of common historical knowledge:

1. Do you have any idea who the Borgias were?

2. Did you read Machiavelli in high school?

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[jab2.livejournal.com]

by Vitoria you mean Francisco de Vitoria, the Salamancan theologian?

if so, honestly, no. it's absolutely the right time period, but i do everything but scholasticism 1500-1550. I spent a bit of time this summer looking at what the scholastics were up to, only to find out that all they were interested in was commenting on Aquinas' Summa Theologica 2.2, the section on human nature (i.e., anthropology), in response to the Spanish empire and the need to determine whether indigenous people were human enough to treat as human. Since this topic doesn't lead to Christology or Mariology (though it should), I shrugged and quit looking. There is a big biblio on the human rights topic, though I was mostly looking in Spanish and can't give you English-speaking names offhand.

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we're precisely talking about indigenous people and so forth. Ah well - it was worth a try.