Jeffrey Scott Turley, George Bryan Souza

The Commentaries of D. García de Silva Y Figueroa on His Embassy to Shāh ʿabbās I of Persia on Behalf of Philip III, King of Spain

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Produktbeschreibung

This edition is the first complete English translation, with complete annotations, of The Commentaries by the erudite Spanish soldier-diplomat D. García de Silva y Figueroa, ambassador to Persia (1614-1624), remarkable for its encyclopedic breadth and ethnographic scope.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 948
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 1588g
• ISBN-13: 9789004346314
• ISBN-10: 9004346317
• Artikelnr.: 47824161

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey S. Turley is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Brigham Young University, where he currently holds a College of Humanities Professorship. He is the translator and co-editor with Souza of The Boxer Codex: Transcription and Translation of an Illustrated Late Sixteenth-Century Spanish Manuscript Concerning the Geography, History and Ethnography of the Pacific, South-East and East Asia (Brill, 2015). George Bryan Souza is affiliated with the Department of History, University of Texas, San Antonio and, recently, a Mercator Guest Professor at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. He is the author of The Survival of Empire (CUP, 1986, 2004), Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese in Maritime Asia, c. 1595-1800 (Ashgate / Variorium, 2014), and a co-editor of Hinterlands and Commodities (Brill, 2014). He is the General Editor of Brill's EURO series.