This article makes use of a report written by the senior Jesuit visitor Manuel de Azevedo to his superiors during the 1640s. The text is of great interest, since it reveals the kind of Manchu-related information which the missionary considered worth being collected, both in order to inform the Superior, and to establish a benchmark of knowledge on the contemporary Eastern Tartars. The chief purpose of the text must have been to present to his superiors a diversity of aspects concerning the new rulers of China.
The "Eastern Tartars" in Jesuit sources: news from Visitor Manuel de Azevedo / Antonucci, Davor. - In: CENTRAL ASIATIC JOURNAL. - ISSN 0008-9192. - STAMPA. - 58:1/2(2015), pp. 117-132. [10.13173/centasiaj.58.1-2.0117]
The "Eastern Tartars" in Jesuit sources: news from Visitor Manuel de Azevedo
ANTONUCCI, DAVOR
2015
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This article makes use of a report written by the senior Jesuit visitor Manuel de Azevedo to his superiors during the 1640s. The text is of great interest, since it reveals the kind of Manchu-related information which the missionary considered worth being collected, both in order to inform the Superior, and to establish a benchmark of knowledge on the contemporary Eastern Tartars. The chief purpose of the text must have been to present to his superiors a diversity of aspects concerning the new rulers of China.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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