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"Here at last is the text that many college teachers of Chinese, Asian, and world history have been waiting for: an accessible collection of primary sources on the life of the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci and the Catholic mission that he helped establish in China. Ricci's missionary career indeed constituted a key moment in modern history, for it was through his examples and recommendations that the Jesuits in China collectively adopted an accommodative approach to Chinese culture and embarked on various projects of cultural translation that resulted in the first wave of sustained interactions between Chinese and European civilizations. Instructors and students alike will benefit greatly from Hsia's lucid introduction, which sets Ricci's life story against the broader background of Portuguese Asia, Catholic renewal, and late Ming China; the pithy, informative introductory statements preceding each document; a chronological chart of major relevant events; and an excellent annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources in multiple languages. This is a very affordable text produced at the highest academic standards."--Qiong Zhang, Associate Professor of History, Wake Forest University

This is an updated synthesis of the scholarship on the history of Catholicism from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.

Beiträge eines gleichnamigen Kolloquiums, das vom 13.-15.6.1991 in der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel stattfand. Historische Anthropologie beschränkt sich nicht auf einzelne Epochen. Ihre Untersuchungen müssen größere Zusammenhänge umfassen, um Verhaltensmuster und Praktiken menschlichen Lebens beschreiben zu können. Bisher von den Historikern vernachlässigte Fragen wie Magie, Hexenglauben, Religiöse Rituale, Formen bäuerlichen Lebens waren in den 70er und 80er Jahren Gegenstand neuer methodischer Ansätze. Deren Vielfalt und Kontroverse bestimmen die zwölf hier versammelten Beiträge (je 6 englisch- bzw. deutschsprachig). Zugleich muss auch die Frage nach den Quellen neu gestellt werden. Gerade der historische Sinn für die Beschreibung einzelner Ereignisse verschärft die Kritik an vorschnell beschriebenen Konstanten ebenso, wie sich die anthropologische Mikroanalyse erst bei der Suche nach Verhaltensmustern bewährt.

This is the first comprehensive account of Jewish-Gentile relations in central Europe from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, with particular emphasis on cultural, economic, social, and political issues, and incorporating much new research. Individually, the essays probe the central questions of Jewish development within the territorial states, secular and clerical, and in both rural and urban environments. The authors grapple with such relevant issues as cultural identity, representation, toleration, and minority/majority relations.