| Description |
1 online resource (2 volumes) : maps |
| Series |
Hakluyt Society ; Series 3, v. 23 & 24 |
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Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 3rd ser., no. 23-24.
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| Contents |
COVER; VOLUME I; CONTENTS; FIGURES AND MAPS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHRONOLOGY OF ETHIOPIAN MONARCHS (1270-1632); INTRODUCTION; 1. The Need for a Critical Edition of Páez; 2. Biography of Pedro Páez; 3. The Reasons for Writing the History of Ethiopia: Commissioning a Refutation; 4. The Manuscript: from its Drafting to its Travels; 5. Theologian, Translator, Author, Architect and Explorer; 6. The Sources of the History of Ethiopia; 7. Editing Criteria; 8. Notes on the English Translation; Dedicatory Letter; Prologue to the Reader; BOOK I |
| Summary |
This book, in two volumes, contains the first English translation, with introduction and annotation, of the História da Etiópia by the Spanish Jesuit missionary priest Pedro Páez, 1564-1622, who worked in the Portuguese missions, first in India and then in Ethiopia, long thought to be the kingdom of the legendary Prester John. Paez's learned but often polemical work is a major contribution to the political, social, cultural and religious history of Ethiopia in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and to the history of early Portuguese and Spanish missions in Africa and India, and Wes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English translation of a Portuguese text originally published in Spanish |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- General.
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| SUBJECT |
Ethiopia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045139
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| Subject |
Ethiopia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Boavida, Isabel.
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Pennec, Hervé.
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Ramos, Manuel João.
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Tribe, Christopher J
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| ISBN |
9781409435280 |
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1409435288 |
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9781409482819 |
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1409482812 |
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