The visitor
Subtitle: André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia
By: Liam Matthew Brockey
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9780674735576; 9780674416680
Subjects: Missions; Christian Ministry; Institutions & Organizations; Jesuits; Mission; RELIGION; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Religious; Biography; History
Description: In an age when few ventured beyond their birthplace, André Palmeiro left Portugal to inspect Jesuit missions from Mozambique to Japan. A global history in the guise of biography, The Visitor tells the story of a theologian whose travels bore witness to the fruitful contact--and violent collision--of East and West in the early modern era.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

In English.
Table of contents: title: Frontmatter --; title: Contents --; title: Note on Orthography and Usage --; title: Prelude: Nagasaki, 1635 --; title: Introduction: Company Man --; title: Part One. Inside the Empire --; title: 1. Entering the Order --; title: 2. The Visitor in Training --; title: 3. Manager of Men --; title: 4. In the Footsteps of the Apostles --; title: 5. Among Archbishops, Emperors, and Viceroys --; title: Part Two. At Empire's Edge --; title: 6. The View from Macau --; title: 7. To Beijing and Back Again --; title: 8. Challenging Accommodation --; title: 9. Sunrise in the West --; title: 10. Sunset in the East --; title: Conclusion: A Baroque Death --; title: Abbreviations --; title: Notes --; title: Illustration Credits --; title: Acknowledgments --; title: Index.