| Author | Vermote, Frederik |
| Place | Leiden |
| Publisher | Leiden Centre for the History of European Expansion |
| Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
| Edition | |
| Language | English |
| Type | Extract (PDF) |
| Series | |
| Shelf | Digital Archives |
| Call Number | BV3415.V486 2017 |
| Description | dig.pdf. [pp. 484-506 (23 p.) : color tables] |
| Note | Travellers lost and redirected: Jesuit networks and the limits of European exploration in Asia / Frederik Vermote. Extract: Itinerario, Vol. 41, No. 3, 484–506. © 2017 Research Institute for History, Leiden University. doi:10.1017/S0165115317000651
This article analyses two databases with information on traveling Jesuit missionaries
to calculate the human cost of connecting Europe and China between 1500 and 1800.
After combining analysis of these statistics with travel accounts, the article argues
that when missionaries did not arrive at their intended destination, it was more often
the case that they had been redirected than that they had died en route. Particular
groups and individual Jesuits were redirected as a result of political fissures within the
global Jesuit network. Since Jesuit missionaries held allegiances to competing state
patrons based on their national background, their travel patterns were altered
significantly either by choice or by force.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 502-504) Link to Itinerario online via Ignacio. |
