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How does religious normative knowledge spread throughout the world? How is such normative knowledge translated, adapted and regionalized in particular geographical domains? In this video, THOMAS DUVE analyzes the processes by which normative knowledge is globalized and localized with a specific focus on religious knowledge. Focusing on places that came into contact with the Iberian empires in the early modern period, Duve argues that our understanding of epistemic communities like the celebrated School of Salamanca requires serious reconsideration. The work also presents an important reassessment of the types of sources to be used by legal historians, highlighting the vital insights provided by so-called pragmatic texts, those texts employed by practitioners on a daily basis.