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ECONOMICS

Various late-scholastic views on inflationary monetary policy, the benefits of free markets, laws against usury, theories of value, foreign exchange rates, oligopolies, the nature of money, liquidity value, etc. We include here aspects of the debate in 1541-44 between Villalón and Saravia over usury. Also, a look at some of the era’s complex financial instruments.

MARIANA

This pinnacle figure provides synthesis on multiple issues. He also carries on a dramatic and very personal political struggle against the combined forces of Philip III, the Duke of Lerma, and the Inquisition. His intellectual heirs include Cromwell, Locke, and Jefferson.

VITORIA

The founder provides early instances of the school’s modern thinking on politics, natural law, international law, human rights, and economics.

POLITICS

A review of late-scholastic thinking on such topics as regicide, popular sovereignty, local legal codes (fueros), parliamentary bodies, taxes, jurisdictional conflicts, constitutionalism, and liberalization of religious matters.

HUMAN RIGHTS

The human rights debate at Valladolid in 1550-51 between Bartolomé de las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda. Francisco Marroquín, a progressive man of his times, an example of the extent of Salamanca’s influence. Finally, review of various opinions by Salamancans on things like the Inquisition, the Expulsion of the Morisco population, and slavery.

Lenght

18 Weeks

Effort

5 hours per week

Certification

USD$60

profesor

Professor Eric Clifford Graf

Eric Clifford Graf is a professor of literature at Universidad Francisco Marroquín. He has a PhD in Spanish language and literature from the University of Virginia (1997). He has worked at the University of Virginia, the College of William & Mary, the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Smith College, Wesleyan University, and Kershner Trading Group. He specializes in medieval and early modern Spain, the history of the novel, Renaissance studies, and literary, political, cultural, and economic theory. He is author of the book Cervantes and Modernity (Bucknell University Press, 2007). In addition to numerous academic essays on the poetry, theater, and narrative of Miguel de Cervantes, he has also published on The Poem of the Cid, Garcilaso de la Vega, Juan de Mariana, El Greco, San Juan de la Cruz, Pedro de Calderón, José de Cadalso, Vicente Aleixandre, Julio Cortázar, and Sigmund Freud.

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