Vitoria: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

About this book

Francisco Vitoria was the earliest and arguably the most important of the Thomist philosophers of the counter-Reformation. His works are of great importance for an understanding of both the rise of modern absolutism and the debate about the emergent imperialism of the European powers and are unusually accessible since they survive in the form of summaries of his lecture courses on law and theology. Translated here into English for the first time these texts comprise the core of Vitorias thought and are accompanied by a comprehensive introduction chronology and bibliography.