Diego Sola

The Chronicler of China (eBook, ePUB)

Juan González de Mendoza, between Mission, Empire and History (Sixteenth- to Seventeenth Centuries)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This monograph provides an analysis and contextualization of an extraordinarily successful book, the History of the Great Kingdom of China (Rome 1585), by the Spanish Augustinian friar Juan González de Mendoza (1545-1618).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003858867
• Artikelnr.: 69854264

Autorenporträt

Diego Sola is Senior Lecturer of Early Modern History at the University of Barcelona, where he obtained his PhD with the Extraordinary Doctoral Prize of the Faculty of History in 2015. His academic research is mainly focused on the Iberian religious in China and the Philippines as cultural creators and mediators during the Early Modern Era (sixteenth to seventeenth centuries), as well as the process of building of a specific image of Asia in the monarchies of Spain and Portugal through the textual productions of the missionaries.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue. Juan González de Mendoza and the European discovery of China
by Joan-Pau Rubiés
Between Iberia and Cathay
Agent of God and empire
The "Chronicle of China"
Visions of the Great Kingdom
The chronicler's footprint
Appendix
Bibliography
Index of names