I very much agree with what you say here. In my own work, I tend to emphasize the papal bulls Dum Diversas, of 1452, and Romanus Pontifex, of 1455, in which Pope Nicholas V somehow presumed to authorize King Alfonso V of Portugal and his descendants to “search out” and “enslave in perpetuity” all “Saracens,” “pagans,” and “other enemies of Christ wheresoever placed.”
I very much agree with what you say here. In my own work, I tend to emphasize the papal bulls Dum Diversas, of 1452, and Romanus Pontifex, of 1455, in which Pope Nicholas V somehow presumed to authorize King Alfonso V of Portugal and his descendants to “search out” and “enslave in perpetuity” all “Saracens,” “pagans,” and “other enemies of Christ wheresoever placed.”