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  • No Saints

    Deceit and Ambition in Catholic Reformation Lisbon

    par Liam Matthew Brockey ...
    Collections series Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755
    No Saints tells a story of the Catholic Reformation from an unexpected vantage point. Instead of saints, it follows frauds, abusers, and opportunists whose lives—preserved in trial records and Inquisition casefiles—offer a different view of religious reform in the late sixteenth century.Set in Lisbon, one of the largest and most dynamic cities of early modern Europe, the book reconstructs the ... En savoir plus

    $79.99 CAD

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  • No Saints

    Deceit and Ambition in Catholic Reformation Lisbon

    par Liam Matthew Brockey ...
    Collections series Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755
    No Saints tells a story of the Catholic Reformation from an unexpected vantage point. Instead of saints, it follows frauds, abusers, and opportunists whose lives—preserved in trial records and Inquisition casefiles—offer a different view of religious reform in the late sixteenth century.Set in Lisbon, one of the largest and most dynamic cities of early modern Europe, the book reconstructs the ... En savoir plus

    $79.99 CAD

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  • Journey to the East

    The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579–1724

    par Liam Matthew Brockey ...
    It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This “journey to the East” is explored by Liam Brockey as he retraces the path of the Jesuit missionaries who sailed from Portugal to China, believing that, with little more than firm conviction and divine assistance, they could convert the Chinese ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Visitor

    André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia

    par Liam Matthew Brockey ...
    In an age when few people ventured beyond their place of birth, André Palmeiro left Portugal on a journey to the far side of the world. Bearing the title “Father Visitor,” he was entrusted with the daunting task of inspecting Jesuit missions spanning from Mozambique to Japan. A global history in the guise of a biography, The Visitor tells the story of a theologian whose extraordinary travels bore ... En savoir plus

    $47.29 CAD

  • Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World

    Modifié par Liam Matthew Brockey ...
    Collections series Empire and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-2000
    Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World is a collection of essays on the cities of the Portuguese empire written by the leading scholars in the field. The volume, like the empire it analyzes, has a global scope and a chronological span of three centuries. The contributions focus on the social, political, and economic aspects of city life in settlements as far apart as Rio de Janeiro, ... En savoir plus

    $107.17 CAD

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  • Spain's Centuries of Crisis

    1300 - 1474

    par Teofilo F. Ruiz ...
    Collections Livre 13 - A History of Spain
    A comprehensive history that focuses on the crises of Spain in the late middle ages and the early transformations that underpinned the later successes of the Catholic Monarchs.Illuminates Spain's history from the early fourteenth century to the union of the Crowns of Castile and Aragon in 1474Examines the challenges and reforms of the social, economic, political, and cultural structures of the ... En savoir plus

    $48.99 CAD

  • The Jesuit Missions to China and Peru, 1570-1610

    Expectations and Appraisals of Expansionism

    par Ana Carolina Hosne ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    The rulers of the overseas empires summoned the Society of Jesus to evangelize their new subjects in the ‘New World’ which Spain and Portugal shared; this book is about how two different missions, in China and Peru, evolved in the early modern world. From a European perspective, this book is about the way Christianity expanded in the early modern period, craving universalism.In China, Matteo Ricci ... En savoir plus

    $105.80 CAD

  • Through the Eye of a Needle

    Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

    par Peter Brown ...
    Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar ... En savoir plus

    $38.49 CAD

  • Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

    par Matthew Restall ...
    Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortés, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian Matthew Restall highlights seven key myths, ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Reformations

    The Early Modern World, 1450-1650

    par Carlos M. N. Eire ...
    This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day. Eire connects the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

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  • A Concise History of Spain

    par William D. Phillips, Jr, Carla Rahn Phillips ...
    Collections series Cambridge Concise Histories
    The rich cultural and political life of Spain has emerged from its complex history, from the diversity of its peoples, and from continual contact with outside influences. This book traces that history from prehistoric times to the present, focusing particularly on culture, society, politics, and personalities. Written in an engaging style, it introduces readers to the key themes that have shaped ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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  • Mission to China

    Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit Encounter with the East

    par Mary Laven ...
    In the sixteenth century, the vast and sophisticated empire of China lay almost entirely unknown to Western travellers. As global trade expanded, this land of reputedly boundless wealth, pale-faced women, and indecipherable tongues began to feed the fantasies of European merchants and adventurers. The Catholic Church, meanwhile, saw in this great people millions of souls who would be damned unless ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD