Early Jesuit Travellers in Central Asia
Author: Cornelius Wessels
Publisher:
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 386
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Author: Cornelius Wessels
Publisher:
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 386
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With special reference to Tibet.
Author: Bernhard Weßels
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-11-27
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9401768366
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With special reference to Tibet.
Author: Bernhard Wessels
Publisher:
Published: 2014-09-01
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9789401768375
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John W. O'Malley
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2016-01-28
Total Pages: 804
ISBN-13: 1487511930
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In recent years scholars in a range of disciplines have begun to re-evaluate the history of the Society of Jesus. Approaching the subject with new questions and methods, they have reconsidered the importance of the Society in many sectors, including those related to the sciences and the arts. They have also looked at the Jesuits as emblematic of certain traits of early modern Europeans, especially as those Europeans interacted with 'the Other' in Asia and the Americas. Originating in an international conference held at Boston College in 1997, the thirty-five essays here reflect this new historiographical trend. Focusing on the Old Society- the Society before its suppression in 1773 by papal edict- they examine the worldwide Jesuit undertaking in such fields as music, art, architecture, devotional writing, mathematics, physics, astronomy, natural history, public performance, and education, and they give special attention to the Jesuits' interaction with non-European cultures, in North and South America, China, India, and the Philippines. A picture emerges not only of the individual Jesuit, who might be missionary, diplomat, architect, and playwright over the course of his life in the Society, but also of the immense and many-faceted Jesuit enterprise as forming a kind of 'cultural ecosystem'. The Jesuits of the Old Society liked to think they had a way of proceeding special to themselves. The question, Was there a Jesuit style, a Jesuit corporate culture? is the thread that runs through this interdisciplinary collection of studies.
Author: Nile Green
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2014-01-02
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0253011485
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume, scholars employ these little-known texts in a wide range of Asian and European languages to trace how Central Asia was gradually absorbed into global affairs. The representations of the region brought home to China and Japan, India and Persia, Russia and Great Britain, provide valuable evidence that helps map earlier periods of globalization and cultural interaction.
Author: Christoph Baumer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-04-18
Total Pages: 1568
ISBN-13: 1838608680
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This set includes all four volumes of the critically acclaimed History of Central Asia series. The epic plains and arid deserts of Central Asia have witnessed some of the greatest migrations, as well as many of the most transformative developments, in the history of civilization. Christoph Baumer's ambitious four-volume treatment of the region charts the 3000-year drama of Scythians and Sarmatians; Soviets and transcontinental Silk Roads; trade routes and the transmission of ideas across the steppes; and the breathless and brutal conquests of Alexander the Great and Chinghiz Khan. Masterfully interweaving the stories of individuals and peoples, the author's engaging prose is richly augmented throughout by colour photographs taken on his own travels. This set includes The Age of the Steppe Warriors (Volume 1), The Age of the Silk Roads (Volume 2), The Age of Islam and the Mongols (Volume 3) and The Age of Decline and Revival (Volume 4)