Pedro Páez's History of Ethiopia, 1622: Which deals with the situation, and with the number and names of the kingdoms and provinces of the part of Ethiopia ruled by the emperor whom they call the Prester John ...
Author | : Pedro Paez |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Ethiopia |
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This book, in two volumes, contains the first English translation, with introduction and annotation, of the História da Etiópia by the Spanish Jesuit missionary priest Pedro Páez, 1564-1622, who worked in the Portuguese missions, first in India and then in Ethiopia, long thought to be the kingdom of the legendary Prester John. Paez's learned but often polemical work is a major contribution to the political, social, cultural and religious history of Ethiopia in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and to the history of early Portuguese and Spanish missions in Africa and India, and Western European attempts to come to terms with non-European cultures -- Pref.