Article ID: CBB356287996

Guerra com a lingoa: Book Culture and Biblioclasm in the Ethiopian Jesuit Mission (2015)

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This article examines the book culture of the Jesuit mission to Ethiopia (1557–1632). Combining archival and field research, it considers the composition of the mission’s now-lost libraries, the use of books as tools of conversion, book production, and missionary engagement with Ethiopian Orthodox book culture. Furthermore, it illuminates the Jesuit reliance upon Ethiopian collaborators both to understand Orthodox texts and to produce Catholic manuscripts in the absence of a printing press. Using the personal libraries of Pedro Páez, S.J. and Afonso Mendes, S.J. as case studies, it posits that the gradual acceleration of acts performed by Jesuits upon Orthodox books—including collecting, translating, editing, and destroying—paralleled the rising aggression and cultural intolerance of the mission. Ultimately, this resulted in the expulsion and murder of the Jesuits, and the destruction of their libraries in a series of state-sanctioned book burnings that permitted a revival of Ethiopian Orthodoxy.

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Authors & Contributors
Fleck, Eliane Cristina Deckmann
Anagnostou, Sabine
Chen, Hui-hung
Golvers, Noël
Harries, Patrick
Hart, Roger
Journals
Journal of Jesuit Studies
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Ethnohistory: Journal of the American Society for Ethnohistory
Intellectual History Review
Physics in Perspective
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Brepols Publishers
Faber & Faber
Hackett Publishing Company
James Currey
Johns Hopkins University Press
Concepts
Missionaries and missions
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Science and religion
Transmission of ideas
Libraries and archives
Mathematics
People
Ricci, Matteo
Junod, Henri Alexandre
Kangxi, Emperor of China
Schall von Bell, Johann Adam
Verbiest, Ferdinand
Xu, Guangqi
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
19th century
20th century
Early modern
Places
China
Paraguay
Americas
East Africa
Venezuela
Canada
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
University of Toronto
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