Pedro Páez’s History of Ethiopia 1622

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ID19922875
AutoresIsabel Boavida (0000-0001-6005-3751), Christopher J Tribe, Hervé Pennec, Manuel João Ramos (0000-0001-7499-3744)
EditoresBoavida Isabel, Pennec Hervé (0000-0002-3214-3693)
Ano2020
Data de publicação2020-04-28
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoPedro Páez's History of Ethiopia, 1622 / Volume II (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraHakluyt Society (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4324/9781315211992
OpenAlexW106262027
ISBN9781315211992
Open LibraryOL35816006M
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8

This book, in two volumes, contains an annotated English translation of the História da Ethiópia by the Spanish Jesuit missionary priest Pedro Páez (Pêro Pais in Portuguese), 1564-1622, who worked in the Portuguese padroado missions, first in India and then in Ethiopia, long thought to be the kingdom of the legendary Prester John. His history of Ethiopia was written in Portuguese in the last ten years of his life and survives in only two manuscripts. The translation, by Christopher J. Tribe, is based on the new critical edition of the Portuguese text by Isabel Boavida, Hervé Pennec and Manuel João Ramos, which was published in Lisbon in 2008. They are also the editors of this English version. The History of Ethiopia is an essential source for several areas of study - from the history of the Catholic missions in that country and the relations between the European religious orders, to the history of art and religions; from the history of geographical exploration to the ideological contextualization of the Ethiopian kingdom; from material culture to Abyssinian political and territorial administration; and from an analysis of local circumstances to changes in human ecology in the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean. It is a repository of empirical knowledge on the political geography, religion, customs, flora and fauna of Ethiopia. It combines travel narrative with a historico-ethnographic monograph, and is a chronicle of the activities of Jesuit missionaries in their Ethiopian mission. It also reworks a wide variety of documents, including the first translations into a European language of a number of Ethiopian literary texts, from royal chronicles to hagiographies. It complements other early accounts of Ethiopia by Ludovico de Varthema, Francisco Alvares, Castanhoso, Bermudez, Arnold von Harff, Manoel de Almeida, Bahrey, Alessandro Zorzi, Jerónimo Lobo and Václav Prutky, all published by The Hakluyt Society

Art · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Historical Studies on Spain · History · Africa · description and travel · Early works to 1800 · Jesuits · Missions · Travel

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