Jose de Acosta’s «De procuranda Indorum salute»
A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru
Samenvatting
José de Acosta’s ‘De procuranda Indorum salute’: A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru contextualizes and analyzes the deployment of Catholic missionary forces in the Andes. Its exhaustive approach to the ecclesiastic and political reforms of late-sixteenth-century Peru exposes the philosophical and legal underpinnings of Spain’s colonial policies.

