Neue Welten. Eine andere Völkerrechtsgeschichte der Eroberung der Kanarischen Inseln (1402–1496)
Julia Bühner
Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte 349
Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2025
XIV, 478 S.
ISBN 978-3-465-04664-6
Two hundred years prior to Columbus’s “discovery” of America in 1492, Europeans were already exploring the waters of new worlds, including the Canary Islands, an archipelago off the west coast of Africa inhabited by various indigenous peoples. Focusing on the conquest of the Canary Islands, which over the course of the 15th century were subjugated by the French, Portuguese and Spanish, the study adds a new chapter to the history of international law and breaks new ground in the process: it understands the conquest as an encounter between legal and normative concepts, highlights the contribution of the indigenous Canary Islanders to the development of modern international law, and opens up a new perspective on the achievements of the School of Salamanca in international law.