The Franciscan Invention of the New World

Contents

Abbreviations. 4

Prologue, The story. 5

Introduction. 7

Chapter One. 20

The Landscapes of Franciscan Poverty. 20

  The Franciscan attempt to disown the world. 20

  The colonial need for the concept of property. 20

  Freedom from property?. 21

  From property to rights. 27

  Necessity and Use. 30

  Property in Paradise?. 32

Chapter Two. 36

Feeding the Imaginative Landscape of the Franciscan Order 36

  The Franciscan attempt to 'know' the world. 36

  Franciscan global knowledge. 37

  Spiritual knowledge. 42

  The Franciscan 'discovery' of the New World. 45

  Losing the Canary Islands. 50

  Conclusion. 55

Chapter Three. 57

The Franciscan Atlantic. 57

  Planting the cross in the Atlantic world. 57

  The Canary Islands. 58

  The Spanish Atlantic coast 64

  The Caribbean. 67

  Mainland America. 71

  Conclusion: A Franciscan Map of the Early Atlantic. 74

Chapter Four 76

Franciscan landscapes of identity and violence. 76

  The Franciscan Invention of Coloniality. 76

  The Franciscans and the landscapes of power 78

  The Transatlantic Inquisition. 80

  Franciscan violences and the forging of a New World. 87

  The Multidirectionality of Coloniality. 91

  Symbolic worldmaking (1) 94

  Conclusion. 96

Chapter Five. 98

The New World at the End of the World. 98

  The Tale of the Dragon's Tail in the Dragon's Tail 98

  The construction of the Franciscan historical worldview.. 100

  The Franciscan historical invention of the New World. 109

  Symbolic worldmaking (2) 112

  Conclusion. 115

Conclusion. 117

Bibliography. 121

  Unpublished Archival Sources. 121

  Printed Primary Sources. 121

  Secondary Sources: Books. 128

  Secondary Sources: Articles and Chapters. 138

  Unpublished secondary sources. 145