Popes, Lawyers, and Infidels: The Church and the Non-Christian World, 125-155

Criticism of the way in which Europeans have treated the inhabitants of the non—European world in the course of European expansion has a long history, Three centuries before Christopher Columbus encountered the American Indians, European intellectuals and clergymen had criticized the treatment of the peoples whom the crusaders and other Europeans met as they moved outward from the heartland of European civilization.

The connection between the sixteenth—century Spanish writers who criticized ...