Open AccessLa doctrina de la potestas omninsular
Author(s) -
Osvaldo Víctor Pereyra
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
cliocanarias
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2695-4494
DOI - 10.53335/cliocanarias.2021.3.14
Subject(s) - conquest , doctrine , meaning (existential) , middle ages , philosophy , partition (number theory) , legal doctrine , history , humanities , ethnology , epistemology , law , theology , ancient history , political science , mathematics , combinatorics
Before Europeans were «shocked» by the sheer extent of American space opened up by discovery and conquest, the New World was thought —assembled and deconstructed— within the constricting frames of medieval thought. The first functional image that made it possible to «mentally compose» these new spaces was insularity. This image was perfectly suited to the traditional matrix of legal doctrine upheld by the roman papacy that will result in the so-called Alexandrian Bulls of Partition of 1493. The potestas omninsular —developed throughout the Late Middle Ages in Western Europe— constitutes the legal basis that gives meaning to this donation.