Letters by the Slovenian Missionary Marcus Antonius Kappus to the Habsburg Mo...

by Maver, Igor

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Letters by the Slovenian Missionary Marcus Antonius Kappus to the Habsburg Monarchy Including the 1701 Map of California As a Peninsula, Paperback by Maver, Igor, ISBN 3700192266, ISBN-13 9783700192268, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US English summary: Th contextualizes and analyzes the unknown or unpublished writings of the Carniolan-Slovenian Jesuit missionary Marcus Antonius Kappus (1). He is the first Carniolan known to have been sent as a Jesuit missionary to the Spanish Viceroyalty of "Nueva Espana" in North America. Kappus originally applied to serve as a missionary in the Orient, but was selected and sent to Sonora in Mexico, bordering today with the federal state of Arizona in the United States of America, instead. Th focuses on the social context in Carniola/"Krain" at the time of the late Baroque, particularly on Kappus's colonial letters, written to his superiors, peers, family and friends back home in the Habsburg Empire, before and during his missionary work. The text is complemented by photos, maps, original documents and other visual materials. A central topic of th is the discussion of the context and process of geographical discovery, and the mapping of California, to which both Eusebio Francisco Kino and, indirectly, also Kappus contributed. The first section of th discusses his 'Indian letters' ("lettere indipetae") to the Jesuit order, religious vows taken before his departure, an important letter by Kappus in Spanish, and the map of California draw

• ISBN: 9783700192268
• Condition: Fine

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