Rethinking the School of Salamanca

Abstract

The School of Salamanca is attracting the attention of researchers from very different branches of knowledge and from a very wide variety of countries around the world. Broaching this subject invites one to reflect on the unity of knowledge as well as on the important role that theology plays in a secularized world. In this short essay, I refer to four recently published works that show the global scope of interest in Spanish Scholasticism in general and the School of Salamanca in particular. The first, titled The School of Salamanca: A Case of Global Knowledge, has been edited by Thomas Duve, Jose Luis Egío, and Christiane Birr under the coordination of the Max Planck Institute (2021). The second work, ¿Qué es la Escuela de Salamanca?, has been edited by Simona Langella and Rafael Ramis-Barceló (2021). The third work consists of the recent thematic compendium on Spanish Scholasticism edited by Harald E. Braun, Erik De Bom, and Paolo Astorri (2022). Finally, I will refer to the monograph by David Lantigua, titled Infidels and Empires in a New World Order: Early Modern Spanish Contributions to International Legal Thought (2020).