Two missionary accounts of Southeast Asia in the late seventeenth century : a translation and critical edition of Guy Tachard's Relation de Voyage aux Indes (1690-99) and Nicola Cima's Relatione Distinta delli Regni di Siam, China, Tunchino, e Cocincina (1697-1706) / edited and translated by Stefan Halikowski Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Stefan Halikowski, editor, translator.

Series:

Connected histories in the early modern world.

Connected histories in the early modern world

Language:

English

French

Italian

Subjects (All):

Tachard, Guy, 1651-1712--Travel--Southeast Asia.

Tachard, Guy.

Cima, Nicola--Travel--Southeast Asia.

Cima, Nicola.

Southeast Asia--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume presents critical editions of two previously unpublished missionary accounts of Ayutthaya and the East Indies scene after the 'National' Revolution of 1688 in Thailand: 'Relation de Voyage aux Indes', 1690-99, by Guy Tachard, a French Jesuit; and 'Relatione Distinta delli Regni di Siam, China, Tunchino e Cocincina' (ca. 1707), by Nicola Cima, an Italian Augustinian. These interesting, substantial texts tell us a lot both about the Europeans who were writing them, and about Southeast Asia in a period when information was in much shorter supply than prior to 1688.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Acknowledgements and Aids to Research

Brief Chronology of the Lives and Movements of Guy Tachard s.j. (1651-1712) and Nicola Agustin Cima o.e.s.a. (1650-1722)

Introduction

PART ONE: PRESENTATION OF GUY TACHARD s.j., RELATION DE VOYAGE AUX INDES (1690-99)

The Relation de Voyage aux Indes (1690-99)

Guy Tachard, A Travel Account to the Indies (Relation de Voyage aux Indes) 1690-99

PART TWO: PRESENTATION OF NICOLA CIMA, o.e.s.a. RELATIONE DISTINTA DELLI REGNI DI SIAM, CHINA, TUNCHINO, E COCINCINA (CA. 1707)

The Relatione Distinta delli Regni di Siam, China, Tunchino, e Cocincina

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Jan 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Tachard, Guy, 1651-1712. Relation de voyage aux Indes. English

Cima, Nicola. Relatione distinta delli regni di Siam, China, Tunchino, e Cocincina. English

ISBN:

1-64189-319-2

OCLC:

1159724968