Legados medievais nas concessões territoriais de propriedade da terra e das pessoas escravizadas em África e América, séculos XIV a XVI

Abstract

In this article we analyze the period of rupture between the Middle Ages and Renaissance modernity not as a radical or sudden break, but, on the contrary, as a period of transition where remnants of the power that the Papal State had in the previous period were maintained, which influenced the beginning of the Iberian colonization of America and Africa. We will address two ideologies of ecclesiastical origin that, we consider, influenced the emergence of modern colonialist state powers. First, the power of the Papal State to grant the Iberians the feudal investiture of non-European territories and populations; second, the use of the medieval ideology of the just war against Islam, to justify the right of appropriation and enslavement of African people between the 15th and 16th centuries.