J F Moran

The Japanese and the Jesuits

Alessandro Valignano in Sixteenth Century Japan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The story of 16th-century Jesuits' attempts to convert in Japanese, taken principally from their leader's own magisterial writings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780415756075
• ISBN-10: 0415756073
• Artikelnr.: 39703135

Autorenporträt

J.F. Moran has taught at the Universities of Hiroshima, Sheffield, Tsukuba, Yamaguchi, Oxford and Tokyo. His Oxford doctorate is on the history of the Japanese language, and he has published textbooks of English for Japanese students, and learned articles on Japanese language and Jesuit history. J.F.Moran is now head of the Department of Japanese at Stirling University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Orientation
Chapter 2 The ambassadors
Chapter 3 The Visitor
Chapter 4 Full and complete information
Chapter 5 Ships and sealing-wax
Chapter 6 The enterprise
Chapter 7 Friars from the Philippines
Chapter 8 High and low
Chapter 9 The alms from the China ship
Chapter 10 Rich and poor
Chapter 11 The press
Chapter 12 Japanese Jesuits
Chapter 13 The Japanese language
Chapter 14 Conclusion