Love Interest: Figures and Fictions of Venture Capital and the Law in Conquista

Description

Inspired by the visual allegory ("Conquista, embarcáronse a las Indias" fol. 73 of the Nueva corónica), Legnani contends that the development of the laws of peoples (jus gentium) by 16th century Spanish jurists should be analyzed within the corpus of commercial law (lex mercatoria) employed by sea merchants, bankers and mercenaries throughout the 15th and 16th centuries. This dissertation explores the movement from figure to fiction in discourses of capital and violence. / Romance Languages and Literatures

Links & Downloads

1. Legnani, Nicole Delia. 2014. Love Interest: Figures and Fictions of Venture Capital and the Law in Conquista. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University.
2. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11471
3. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274462

Tags

Latin American studies

Latin American literature

History

laws of peoples (jus gentium)

metalepsis

habitus

political theology

Spanish conquest

conquista

usury

venture capital

commenda

triple contract

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:harvard.edu/oai:dash.harvard.edu:1/12274462
Date	06 June 2014
Creators	Legnani, Nicole Delia
Contributors	Rabasa, Jose
Publisher	Harvard University
Source Sets	Harvard University
Language	en_US
Detected Language	English
Type	Thesis or Dissertation
Rights	open