
Bartolome de Las Casas | A Discussion on a Man Before His Time
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Did the Church Recall the Friars?
The king had a lot of leverage and was able to receive certain kind of delegated authority from rome. A patronage agreement with the pope gave the spaniards a kind of apostolic mission to any lands that they discovered. There was a question as to what power the pope had to grant lands to certain sovereigns. And so there were attempts to somehow try to draw an analogy with thethe conqista.
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