Diego Sola

Gebundenes Buch

The Chronicler of China

Juan González de Mendoza, between Mission, Empire and History (Sixteenth- to Seventeenth Centuries)

Beschreibung

This monograph provides an analysis and contextualization of an extraordinarily successful book, the History of the Great Kingdom of China (Rome 1585), by the Spanish Augustinian friar Juan González de Mendoza (1545-1618).

Autor

Diego Sola is Senior Lecturer of Early Modern History at the University of Barcelona, where he obtained his PhD with the Extraordinary Doctoral Prize of the Faculty of History in 2015. His academic research is mainly focused on the Iberian religious in China and the Philippines as cultural creators and mediators during the Early Modern Era (sixteenth to seventeenth centuries), as well as the process of building of a specific image of Asia in the monarchies of Spain and Portugal through the textual productions of the missionaries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9781032441900
• ISBN-10: 1032441909
• Artikelnr.: 69482947