The Visitor : Andre Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia / Liam Matthew Brockey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brockey, Liam Matthew, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palmeiro, André, 1569-1635.

Palmeiro, André.

Jesuits--Asia--Biography.

Jesuits.

Jesuits--Asia--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (520 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 witness to the fruitful contact—and violent collision—of East and West in the early modern era. In India, Palmeiro was thrust into a controversy over the missionary tactics of Roberto Nobili, who insisted on dressing the part of an indigenous ascetic. Palmeiro walked across Southern India to inspect Nobili’s mission, recording fascinating observations along the way. As the highest-ranking Jesuit in India, he also coordinated missions to the Mughal Emperors and the Ethiopian Christians, as well as the first European explorations of the East African interior and the highlands of Tibet. Orders from Rome sent Palmeiro farther afield in 1626, to Macau, where he oversaw Jesuit affairs in East Asia. He played a crucial role in creating missions in Vietnam and seized the opportunity to visit the Chinese mission, trekking thousands of miles to Beijing as one of China’s first Western tourists. When the Tokugawa Shogunate brutally cracked down on Christians in Japan—where neither he nor any Westerner had power to intervene—Palmeiro died from anxiety over the possibility that the last Jesuits still alive would apostatize under torture.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Note on Orthography and Usage

Prelude: Nagasaki, 1635

Introduction: Company Man

1. Entering the Order

2. The Visitor in Training

3. Manager of Men

4. In the Footsteps of the Apostles

5. Among Archbishops, Emperors, and Viceroys

6. The View from Macau

7. To Beijing and Back Again

8. Challenging Accommodation

9. Sunrise in the West

10. Sunset in the East

Conclusion: A Baroque Death

Abbreviations

Notes

Illustration Credits

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780674744752

0674744756

9780674735576

0674735579

OCLC:

891081318