Manuel Giménez Fernández
Spanish jurist, academic, and politician. A professor of law at the University of Seville and a leading social-Catholic voice in the Second Republic, he served as Minister of Agriculture (1934–1935), where he promoted progressive agrarian reforms. After the Civil War he remained an influential Christian democratic thinker and scholar.
Books
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1. Bartolome De Las Casas
A meticulous scholarly biography of a 16th-century Dominican friar who emerged as the leading advocate for Indigenous rights in the early Spanish Empire. Drawing on extensive archival research, it chronicles his transformation from encomendero to reformer, his petitions before the Crown, the landmark debates on conquest and slavery, and the drafting and contested implementation of the New Laws. The study separates myth from documentation, examines contradictions in his methods, and situates his writings and missions within the theological, legal, and political currents of his time.