In the light and shadow of an emperor :
In the light and shadow of an emperor : Tomas Pereira, SJ (1645-1708), the Kangxi emperor and the Jesuit mission in China /
edited by Arthur K. Wardega, SJ, and Antonio Vasconcelos de Saldanha.
- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2012.
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 583 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents; list of illustrations; notes on editors and contributors; preface; introduction; part i; root and branch; tomás pereira and the jesuits of the court of the kangxi emperor; father tomás pereira, sj, the kangxi emperor, and the court westerners; the image of tomás pereira in qing dynasty documents; from the earthly court to the heavenly court; the last imperial honours from tomás pereira to the eulogium europeorum doctorum in 1711; part ii; 'amicíssimos'; the fô and the xekiâ; ubi dux, ibi curia; 'riding a crane she ascended to the distant realms'; part iii. The 'edict of tolerance' (1692)tomás pereira's appealto the portuguese jesuits and missionary recruitment to china; ferdinand verbiest's letter of 1678; part iv; defending european astronomy in china ... against europe, tomás pereira and the directorate of astronomy in 1688; resolution of some questions about tomás pereira's arrival in beijing and service at the directorate of astronomy; seventeenth-century jesuit surveys for a secure overland route from europe to china; part v; the jesuits at nerchinsk; tomás pereira at the nerchinsk conference; tomás pereira, jing tian, and nerchinsk; part vi. Mission by musicthe organist and organ builder tomás pereira; the macau ricci institute; index.
The present collection was written to commemorate the third centenary of the death of the Portuguese Jesuit, Tomás Pereira (1645-1708). Dealing with some of the most decisive and controversial moments in the history of the Jesuit mission in China during the Kangxi era (1662-1722), these essays were produced by an international team of scholars and cover a wide range of topics that reflect a permanent academic interest, in Europe and America as well as in China, in the history of the Catholic ...
9781443838542 1443838543 1299646751 9781299646759
495925 MIL
Pereira, Tomás, 1645-1708.
Pereira, Tomas, 1645-1708.
Pereira, Tomás, 1645-1708.
Jesuits--Missions--History--China--17th century.
Jesuits--History--Portugal--17th century.
Jesuits--History--China--17th century.
Jesuits--Missions--History--China--17th century.
Jesuits--History--Portugal--17th century.
Jesuits--History--China--17th century.
Jesuits.
1600-1722
Church history--17th century.
HISTORY--Asia--China.
Church history.
Missions.
China--History--Kangxi, 1662-1722.
China.
Portugal.
Electronic books.
History.
BV3427.P454 / I5 2012eb
951.030924
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents; list of illustrations; notes on editors and contributors; preface; introduction; part i; root and branch; tomás pereira and the jesuits of the court of the kangxi emperor; father tomás pereira, sj, the kangxi emperor, and the court westerners; the image of tomás pereira in qing dynasty documents; from the earthly court to the heavenly court; the last imperial honours from tomás pereira to the eulogium europeorum doctorum in 1711; part ii; 'amicíssimos'; the fô and the xekiâ; ubi dux, ibi curia; 'riding a crane she ascended to the distant realms'; part iii. The 'edict of tolerance' (1692)tomás pereira's appealto the portuguese jesuits and missionary recruitment to china; ferdinand verbiest's letter of 1678; part iv; defending european astronomy in china ... against europe, tomás pereira and the directorate of astronomy in 1688; resolution of some questions about tomás pereira's arrival in beijing and service at the directorate of astronomy; seventeenth-century jesuit surveys for a secure overland route from europe to china; part v; the jesuits at nerchinsk; tomás pereira at the nerchinsk conference; tomás pereira, jing tian, and nerchinsk; part vi. Mission by musicthe organist and organ builder tomás pereira; the macau ricci institute; index.
The present collection was written to commemorate the third centenary of the death of the Portuguese Jesuit, Tomás Pereira (1645-1708). Dealing with some of the most decisive and controversial moments in the history of the Jesuit mission in China during the Kangxi era (1662-1722), these essays were produced by an international team of scholars and cover a wide range of topics that reflect a permanent academic interest, in Europe and America as well as in China, in the history of the Catholic ...
9781443838542 1443838543 1299646751 9781299646759
495925 MIL
Pereira, Tomás, 1645-1708.
Pereira, Tomas, 1645-1708.
Pereira, Tomás, 1645-1708.
Jesuits--Missions--History--China--17th century.
Jesuits--History--Portugal--17th century.
Jesuits--History--China--17th century.
Jesuits--Missions--History--China--17th century.
Jesuits--History--Portugal--17th century.
Jesuits--History--China--17th century.
Jesuits.
1600-1722
Church history--17th century.
HISTORY--Asia--China.
Church history.
Missions.
China--History--Kangxi, 1662-1722.
China.
Portugal.
Electronic books.
History.
BV3427.P454 / I5 2012eb
951.030924
