«El único botín que consiguieron fueron cuatro mujeres»Le Canarien y la conceptualización de las mujeres canarias por la cristiandad europea

Résumé

The French chronicle of the conquest of the Canary Islandsis one of the most important texts to explain the moment of contact between Christianity and the infidel peoples at the beginning of the European Modern Age. This text applies an ethnocentric vision on the conquered bodies and transfers the Christian concepts of shame and sin on the Canarian women. They criticize the habits that are considered unacceptable of the feminine sphere, and for the first time the Christian conception of gender is applied to the Canary Islands population. The economic vision of the territory will also include the bodies for the slavery business, so we will reflect on the spoils of conquest and its consequences on women. We rescue the references of this chronicle and add those of other texts referring to the period and the rest of the fifteenth century to understand how this colonial discourse was formed