RHETOR 151 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Iberian Peninsula, Aljama
13 Feb 2017
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Requirement: principle means by which spaniards enacted political authority over the new world during the era of their most extensive conquests. Ultimatum for indians to acknowledge the superiority of christianity or be warred upon. Spaniards created their rights to the new world through conquest and not consent. In europe, the formal procedures for initiating war against narratives were rarely dictated and equally rarely observed. Requirement both a military and political ritual. Most closely resembles the unique ritual demand for submission characteristic of the military version of an islamic jihad. Reading the r became the mechanism which enacted spanish political authority over peoples of the new world. Islam did not separate political from religious rule. Qur"an demanded only one special form of submission - to recognize the superiority of islam. Request to acknowledge a superior religion or be attached characterized both the islamic summons and the catholic requirement and was highly unusual in classic western warfare.
