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The martyrs of Japan : publication history and Catholic missions in the Spanish World (Spain, New Spain, and the Philippines, 1597-1700) /

"In The Martyrs of Japan, Rady Roldán-Figueroa examines the role that Catholic missionary orders played in the dissemination of accounts of Christian martyrdom in Japan. The work combines several historiographical approaches, including publication history, history of missions, and "new&qu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roldán-Figueroa, Rady (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Colección:Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 195.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Background : Catholic missions in Japan
  • Japano-martyrology as religious literature
  • The production and circulation of martyrological and near-martyrological books, 1598-1700
  • Authors and their institutional contexts
  • Publishers, missionaries, and publication portfolios : the dissemination of Japano-martyrology in Southern Europe
  • The martyrs of Japan, exemplarity, and post-tridentine spirituality and missions in Luis de Guzmán's Historia de las misiones
  • Excursus : how and when was Guzmán's Historia de las misiones "reclassified" from history of missions to travel literature
  • Father Luis Piñero, S.J., the tridentine economy of relics, and the defense of the Jesuit missionary enterprise in Tokugawa Japan
  • From Nagasaki to Puebla de los Ángeles : Baltasar de Medina (1634-1697) and his martyrology of St. Felipe de Jesús (1572-1597) as an instance of translocal Catholic literary culture.