What a privilege it is to be invited to debate one’s work with colleagues! One is struck by so many things – the generosity of one’s interlocutors, the differences in how we read texts, how we choose between more and less important points in familiar narratives and imagine their principal lessons. Even a work of over a thousand pages can say only something about its subject and remain silent otherwise, thus raising justifiable questions as to ‘why this’, ‘why not that’? As many commentators here and elsewhere have noticed, the thesis that ‘imagination begins at home’ does a lot of work in this book.1¹ It is no accident that, as Luigi Nuzzo observes, the Salamanca jurists and theologians of chapter 2 appear never to leave the Iberian Peninsula. Instead, I have wanted to portray them weaving a universal order from legal and religious materials found at home so as to impress and perhaps guide the hand of the king and the inquisitor. Perhaps they are not that different from modern-day experts in global law projecting the texts we have collected from our academic and professional contexts across space and time so as to influence decision-makers and grant institutions.

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“困在萨拉曼卡”：回应

被邀请与同事讨论自己的工作是多么荣幸！很多事情都让一个人印象深刻——对话者的慷慨，我们阅读文本的方式不同，我们如何在熟悉的叙述中选择越来越重要的点，并想象它们的主要教训。即使是一千多页的作品也只能对它的主题发表一些看法，否则就保持沉默，从而提出了“为什么会这样”、“为什么不这样”的合理问题？正如这里和其他地方的许多评论家所注意到的那样，“想象力始于家庭”这一论点在本书中做了很多工作。^{1 1}正如 Luigi Nuzzo 所言，第 2 章中的萨拉曼卡法学家和神学家似乎从未离开过伊比利亚半岛，这绝非偶然。相反，我想描绘他们从家里发现的法律和宗教材料中编织出一个普遍的秩序，以便给国王和审判官留下深刻印象，或许还能引导他们。也许他们与现代的全球法律专家没有什么不同，他们将我们从学术和专业环境中收集的跨时空的文本投射出来，以影响决策者和资助机构。