Sacred historiography and its rhetoric in sixteenth-century Japan : an intertextual study and partial critical edition of Principio y progresso de la religión christiana en Jappón (--) (1601-1603) by Alessando Valignano
<p>This thesis investigates the polemical and deliberative functions that <i>sacred history</i> came to serve among European Jesuits in late sixteenth-century Japan, and the way in which this new genre of ‘mission histories’ reflected developments in European historiography. Focus...
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1998
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