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The First European Description of Japan, 1585 - A Critical English-Language Edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of... The First European Description of Japan, 1585 - A Critical English-Language Edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S.J. (Paperback)
Luis Frois Sj; Edited by Daniel T. Reff, Richard Danford; Translated by Robin Gill
R1,422 Discovery Miles 14 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1585, at the height of Jesuit missionary activity in Japan, which was begun by Francis Xavier in 1549, Luis Frois, a long-time missionary in Japan, drafted the earliest systematic comparison of Western and Japanese cultures. This book constitutes the first critical English-language edition of the 1585 work, the original of which was discovered in the Royal Academy of History in Madrid after the Second World War. The book provides a translation of the text, which is not a continuous narrative, but rather more than 600 distichs or brief couplets on subjects such as gender, child rearing, religion, medicine, eating, horses, writing, ships and seafaring, architecture, and music and drama. In addition, the book includes a substantive introduction and other editorial material to explain the background and also to make comparisons with present-day Japanese life. Overall, the book represents an important primary source for understanding a particularly challenging period of history and its connection to contemporary Europe and Japan.

The First European Description of Japan, 1585 - A Critical English-Language Edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of... The First European Description of Japan, 1585 - A Critical English-Language Edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S.J. (Hardcover)
Luis Frois Sj; Edited by Daniel T. Reff, Richard Danford; Translated by Robin Gill
R4,755 Discovery Miles 47 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1585, at the height of Jesuit missionary activity in Japan, which was begun by Francis Xavier in 1549, Luis Frois, a long-time missionary in Japan, drafted the earliest systematic comparison of Western and Japanese cultures. This book constitutes the first critical English-language edition of the 1585 work, the original of which was discovered in the Royal Academy of History in Madrid after the Second World War. The book provides a translation of the text, which is not a continuous narrative, but rather more than 600 distichs or brief couplets on subjects such as gender, child rearing, religion, medicine, eating, horses, writing, ships and seafaring, architecture, and music and drama. In addition, the book includes a substantive introduction and other editorial material to explain the background and also to make comparisons with present-day Japanese life. Overall, the book represents an important primary source for understanding a particularly challenging period of history and its connection to contemporary Europe and Japan.

Plagues, Priests, and Demons - Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New (Hardcover, New):... Plagues, Priests, and Demons - Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New (Hardcover, New)
Daniel T. Reff
R3,077 Discovery Miles 30 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing for anthropology, religious studies, history, and literary theory, Plagues, Priests, and Demons explores significant parallels in the rise of Christianity in the late Roman empire and colonial Mexico. Evidence shows that new forms of infectious disease devastated the late Roman empire and Indian America, respectively, contributing to pagan and Indian interest in Christianity. Christian clerics and monks in early medieval Europe, and later Jesuit missionaries in colonial Mexico, introduced new beliefs and practices as well as accommodated indigenous religions, especially through the cult of the saints. The book is simultaneously a comparative study of early Christian and later Spanish missionary texts. Similarities in the two literatures are attributed to similar cultural-historical forces that governed the 'rise of Christianity' in Europe and the Americas.

Plagues, Priests, and Demons - Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New (Paperback, New):... Plagues, Priests, and Demons - Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New (Paperback, New)
Daniel T. Reff
R949 Discovery Miles 9 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing for anthropology, religious studies, history, and literary theory, Plagues, Priests, and Demons explores significant parallels in the rise of Christianity in the late Roman empire and colonial Mexico. Evidence shows that new forms of infectious disease devastated the late Roman empire and Indian America, respectively, contributing to pagan and Indian interest in Christianity. Christian clerics and monks in early medieval Europe, and later Jesuit missionaries in colonial Mexico, introduced new beliefs and practices as well as accommodated indigenous religions, especially through the cult of the saints. The book is simultaneously a comparative study of early Christian and later Spanish missionary texts. Similarities in the two literatures are attributed to similar cultural-historical forces that governed the 'rise of Christianity' in Europe and the Americas.

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