O bom governo de México e Michoacán: Vasco de Quiroga e a colonização utópica da Nova Espanha (1531-1565)

This thesis presents the work of Vasco de Quiroga and discusses his utopian project for the colonization of New Spain. It begins with a historiographical review, recovering the main interpretative lines developed over the last century; then addresses the subjects involved in quiroguian project, name...

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Autor: Witeze Junior, Geraldo
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UFG
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.bc.ufg.br:tede/6117
Acceso en línea:http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/6117
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Vasco de Quiroga (1578?-1565)
Utopia
Colonização
Michoacán
Povos indígenas
Colonization
Indigenous people
CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA
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Sumario:This thesis presents the work of Vasco de Quiroga and discusses his utopian project for the colonization of New Spain. It begins with a historiographical review, recovering the main interpretative lines developed over the last century; then addresses the subjects involved in quiroguian project, namely, the Spanish settlers and the Native Americans; then comes the topics that lead to utopia: just war, slavery and evangelization; finally, examines the references to Utopia to elucidate how the Quiroga understood this book and tried to apply it among the Indians, in order to build a renewed church from that new man found in America. The focus is on a careful analysis of the texts, putting the reader in direct contact with the sources, which is very different from the usual historiography. It also highlights the Utopia of Thomas More as the main inspiration through a thorough comparison between the morian text and Quiroga’s writings. Other influences are also highlighted, such as the Bible and the Philosophia Christi of Erasmus. Anyway, it aims to show the importance of knowing Vasco de Quiroga to understand the polyphonic movement of America's colonization and the development of utopian thinking as a key to the constitution of modernity. It presents a critical view of the simplistic interpretations that have created a historiographical common sense, showing that the colonial sources still has much to reveal.