Pedro Páez's History of Ethiopia, 1622

Pedro Páez's History of Ethiopia, 1622
ISBN-10
1908145013
ISBN-13
9781908145017
Category
History
Pages
444
Language
English
Published
2011
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Author
Pedro Paez

Description

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 West European attempts to come to terms with non-European cultures.

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