The Salamanca University Companion

Chartered in 1218, Salamanca remains the oldest university in the Hispanic world, its scholars once consulted on Columbus's own westward voyage. This Companion reads its golden Plateresque stone and centuries of graduates who painted their own names directly onto the walls in bull's blood, and tells the story of Francisco de Vitoria, who used his own considerable influence to seriously question whether Spain's conquest of the Americas was actually just.