Les Ouvriers d'une Vigne Stérile. Les Jésuites et la conversion des Indiens au Brésil 1580-1620

by Charlotte De Castelnau-L'Estoile

$125 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

Paris: Centre Culturelle, 2000. Softcover. Quarto. 557, 3 pp. Original pictorial wrappers with red and black lettering on front cover and spine. Printer's device on title-page. Charlotte de Castenau's monograph examines the ways in which Jesuit missionaries transformed and adapted their project to the particular context of Brazil. By the 1580's this context had proven to be so resistant to their original missionary goals that the Jesuits themselves called it a

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