O bom governo de México e Michoacán: Vasco de Quiroga e a colonização utópica da Nova Espanha (1531-1565)
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2016-04-15
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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This thesis presents the work of Vasco de Quiroga and discusses his utopian
project for the colonization of New Spain. It begins with a historiographical review,
recovering the main interpretative lines developed over the last century; then addresses the
subjects involved in quiroguian project, namely, the Spanish settlers and the Native
Americans; then comes the topics that lead to utopia: just war, slavery and evangelization;
finally, examines the references to Utopia to elucidate how the Quiroga understood this book
and tried to apply it among the Indians, in order to build a renewed church from that new man
found in America. The focus is on a careful analysis of the texts, putting the reader in direct
contact with the sources, which is very different from the usual historiography. It also
highlights the Utopia of Thomas More as the main inspiration through a thorough comparison
between the morian text and Quiroga’s writings. Other influences are also highlighted, such as
the Bible and the Philosophia Christi of Erasmus. Anyway, it aims to show the importance of
knowing Vasco de Quiroga to understand the polyphonic movement of America's colonization
and the development of utopian thinking as a key to the constitution of modernity. It presents
a critical view of the simplistic interpretations that have created a historiographical common
sense, showing that the colonial sources still has much to reveal.
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WITEZE JR. Geraldo. O bom governo de México e Michoacán: Vasco de Quiroga e a colonização utópica da Nova Espanha (1531-1565). 2016. 311 f. Tese (Doutorado em História) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2016.