Subject: Missions, Portuguese--India--History--16th century

Missionary tropics : the Catholic frontier in India, 16th-17th centuries
AuthorŽupanov, Ines G. [Zupanov]
PlaceAnn Arbor
PublisherUniversity of Michigan Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeDigital Book (PDF)
SeriesHistory, languages, and cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese worlds
ShelfDigital Archives
Call NumberBV3265.3.Z87 2005d
Descriptiondig.pdf. [xii, 374 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.]
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Missionary tropics : the Catholic frontier in India, 16th-17th centuries / Ines G. Županov.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-258) and index.

Map of southern India -- Map of Goa -- Introduction : cartography of Jesuit early modernity in India -- pt. 1. Tropical saints and relics -- Ch. 1. sacred body : Francis Xavier, the apostle, the pilgrim, the relic -- Ch. 2. reliquary town -- Sao Tome de Meliapor : the political and the sacred in Portuguese India -- pt. 2. Tropical virtues and vices -- Ch. 3. Fervors and tropics : a Jesuit missionary career in India (Antonio Gomes, 1548-54) -- Ch. 4. art of dying in the tropics : Jesuit martyrs in India -- Ch. 5. Tropical sins and sins of Hinduism -- pt. 3. Disciplining the tropics -- Ch. 6. medical mission in Goa : Pedro Afonso and Giovanni Battista de Loffreda -- Ch. 7. Twisting a pagan tongue : Portuguese and Tamil in Jesuit translations -- Epilogue : tropical textures.

Local access dig.pdf. [Zupanove-Missionary Tropics.pdf]
Online at Hathi Trust.

 

ISBN0472114905 ; 9780472114900