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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812794603321

Autore

Guerreiro FernaÌo <1550?-1617., >

Titolo

Jahangir and the Jesuits / / FernaÌo Guerreiro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-28500-0

1-134-28501-9

1-280-25459-9

9786610254590

0-203-32637-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Collana

The broadway travellers ; ; 11

Disciplina

266.2/54/09031

Soggetti

Missions - India

Missions - Burma - Pegu

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1930.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

part I. Jahangir and the Jesuits -- part II. The travels of Benedict Goes -- part III. The mission to Pegu.

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 1930. 'The book is full of splendour and strange scenes' NationThe Relations of Fernão Guerreiro, from which the three narratives in this volume have been taken, constitute a complete history of the missionary undertakings of the Society of Jesus in the East Indies, China, Japan and Africa during the first decade of the seventeenth century. The work was compiled from the annual letters and reports sent to Europe from the various missionary centres. The original work, which until this edition was published in 1930, had never been reprinted. The only complete