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13 - Court Activist and Historian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2012

Lawrence A. Clayton
Lawrence A. Clayton
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University of Alabama
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I have not run away from being your shepherd;

you know I have not desired the day of despair.

What passes my lips is open before you.

Do not be a terror to me;

you are my refuge in the day of disaster.

Let my persecutors be put to shame,

but keep me from shame;

let them be terrified,

but keep me from terror.

Bring on them the day of disaster;

destroy them with double destruction.

Jeremiah 17:16–18

Court Activist and Historian

Sometime in 1550 Las Casas turned sixty-five years old. After settling in at the Dominican College of San Gregorio in Valladolid and having resigned his bishopric, one might have expected a normal friar to have eased into retirement, a time of rest, perhaps reflection, certainly prayer, and camaraderie with his fellow Dominicans. This is, after all, the twilight of one’s life, the “golden” years in modern parlance, a time devoted to enjoying some of the pleasantries of life that one’s body and soul could still enjoy. And one prepared, directly or indirectly, for the transition from life in this world, through the portal of death, to life in the next.

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Bartolomé de las Casas
A Biography
 , pp. 387 - 428
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2012

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