From Martini to Prémare: Early analytic Descriptions of Mandarin Chinese in Latin

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preliminary Notes V
3. Contents VII
4. The Global Latin Research Project: A Foreword 1
5. Il latino come lingua sacra 9
6. Afonso Mendes, the Catholic Patriarch of Ethiopia, and His Debates With Salomon: A Jew From Vienna, at the Court of the King of Ethiopia 23
7. Deities, Demons or Decoration? Asian Religions in Two Jesuit Latin Martyr Epics 33
8. Latin a World Language? China as Test Case 53
9. On the Types of Scholarly Latin Used by Authors in China 69
10. Michele Ruggieri (1543–1607), S.J., and the Latin Poem on His Missions in China 91
11. Humanism and the Jesuit Mission to China II: A Poetic Biography of Michele Ruggieri, the First Superior of the Jesuit Mission in the Far East 135
12. Docere, Mouere Et Delectare: The Use of Latin in the Annual Letters Sent From China – Father Manuel Dias Júnior and the Letter of December 30, 1616 153
13. From Martini to Prémare: Early analytic Descriptions of Mandarin Chinese in Latin 165
14. A Brief Report on Hagiographica Coreana Focusing on Congr. Riti. Processus 5279–5282 197
15. Medical Knowledge in the Latin Language in 18th-Century Korea 209
16. Il ruolo del latino nelle missioni cristiane in Giappone del XVI e del XVII secolo 225
17. Mercury and the Argonauts in Japan: Myths and Martyrs in Jesuit Neo-Latin 241
18. Index 251