The Spanish Colonial Empire in the Renaissance: Establishing the First Global Culture

Beatriz de Alba-Koch

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Pages:: 89–120

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004360372_005

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Iberia’s imperial expansion during the Renaissance gave rise to the first global culture. Providing an overview of the Spanish Monarchy’s possessions in Europe, Asia, and the Americas in the early 17th century, this essay considers key issues such as the foundational role of the Reconquista, justifications of conquest, the Portuguese “trading-post” empire, and the Spanish system of viceroyalties and captaincies-general. The second part of the essay focuses on New Spain, where the imposition of Christianity or “spiritual conquest” was central to the creation of a mestizo or hybrid culture. The foundation of a New World empire, which was much more than the transplantation of European culture overseas, was shaped by utopian impulses, millenarianism, and humanism as well as by the acquisitiveness of the conquerors. Important aspects of this moment are the New Laws of 1542 and their foundation of a putatively dual society comprised of two republics, as well as urban design, open-air architecture, and tequitqui art. In the realm of knowledge transfer and production, early anthropological methodology, the creation of texts in Indigenous languages, the role of creole intellectuals in the fostering of “lettered cities,” and Indigenous resistance to colonialism are also discussed.

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A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance

Series: The Renaissance Society of America, Volume: 11

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004360372

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 17 Oct 2018

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