Mangeurs d’homme et mangeurs d’ame

Une correspondance missionnaire au XVIe, la lettre jesuite du Bresil, 1549-1568

by Jean-Claude Laborie

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Extent: 645 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Geographies du monde

Series volume number: 6

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(April 2022)

ISBN: 9782406130635

8.62 x 5.91 inches

Price: $61.00

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Hardback (Published)

(April 2022)

ISBN: 9782812455926

8.62 x 5.91 inches

Price: $98.00

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Revealing the anthropological, spiritual, and political stakes of an exceptional epistolary corpus, this essay shows how the letters of Jesuit missionaries in Brazil became the consoling fiction of a new tropical church before inspiring other fictions in the historiography of the Order.

  • By (author) Jean-Claude Laborie