Egío, José Luis
Professor of medieval and modern philosophy
Complutense University Madrid
Department of Philosophy and Society
Plaza de Menéndez Pelayo, s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Building A, Bureau 0.1
28040 Madrid
Spain
jegio@ucm.es
Homepage Complutense University Madrid
Homepage Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (Affiliate Researcher)
Research interests
Late medieval and early modern scholasticism; theological, legal and philosophical thought in colonial America and Asia; natural law; law of nations; marriage; canon-making in the history of thought.
Projects
The emergence of the School of Salamanca (1526). Vitoria’s thought in dialogue with his teachers, disciples and critics.
Understanding dissent. Heresy and Heresiography in the Age of Confessionalization (1522-1564)
Producing normative knowledge in the margins
Salamanca in America
Selected bibliography concerning Natural law
- Books
(with Thomas Duve) Rechtsgeschichte des frühneuzeitlichen Hispanoamerika (Berlín: De Gruyter, 2023).
(co-ed. with Thomas Duve and Christiane Birr) The School of Salamanca. A Case of Global Knowledge Production (Leiden: Brill, 2021).
(with Celia Alejandra Ramírez) Conceptos, autores, instituciones: Revisión crítica de la investigación reciente sobre la Escuela de Salamanca (2008-19) y bibliografía multidisciplinar (Madrid: Dykinson, Madrid, 2020).
- Articles
‘Le ius gentium de Francisco de Vitoria aux frontières américaines de l’Empire espagnol (1550-1610). L’ambivalente évolution d’un discours global de domination’, in Revue de synthèse, 146:3-4 (2025), p. 465–504.
‘Infieles (DCH)’, in Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Research Paper Series, 2025-12 (2025), 70 pages.
‘The Global Impact of the Early Modern Thomistic Revolution and the Scholastic Grammars of Daily Resistance Within Institutions’, in Resistance in the Iberian Worlds from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century. Dissent and Disobedience from Within, ed. Pablo Sánchez León and Benita Herreros Claret de Langavant (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), p. 47-66.
‘Producing Normative Knowledge between Salamanca and Michoacán: Alonso de la Vera Cruz and the Bumpy Road of Marriage’, in The School of Salamanca: A Case of Global Knowledge Production, ed. Thomas Duve, José Luis Egío, Christiane Birr (Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2021), p. 335–398.
‘Before Vitoria: Expansion into Heathen, Empty, or Disputed Lands in Late-Mediaeval Salamanca Writings and Early 16th-Century Juridical Treatises’, in A Companion to Early Modern Spanish Imperial Political and Social Thought, ed. Jörg Tellkamp (Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2020), p. 53–77.
‘Towards a New Narrative of Natural Law Thinking in Early Modern Scholasticism’, in Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History vol. 27 (2019), p. 280–283.
‘Matías De Paz and the Introduction of Thomism in the Asuntos De Indias: A Conceptual Revolution’, Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History vol. 26 (2018), p. 236–262.
