The Early Modern Production of Missionary Books on Indigenous Languages in New Spain and Peru

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-94-6372-417-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 398 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 760 g

Reihe: Languages and Culture in History

How do the social, material, and spatial processes underlying the making of early modern missionary grammars, vocabularies, and devotional translations deepen our understanding of their contents? The handwritten and printed missionary books produced in the Spanish viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru were key instruments designed to help study Indigenous languages in order to efficiently teach religious doctrine to local communities unfamiliar with European culture and religion. This volume considers these missionary books as physical and social objects and illuminates how a variety of factors determines their physical appearance, structure, and form, which in turn shape and guide the interpretation of their contents: people involved in its making; geographical and social circumstances and conditions of production; technologies, materials, and tools; genre and function(s) of the books; and intended readership, modes of distribution, and readerly responses.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loon, Zanna

Loon, Zanna Van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Verlagswesen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, Introduction, Chapter 1: Mapping the conditions to record missionary linguistic knowledge on paper, Chapter 2: Pre-publication review: controlling the contents and creating credit, Chapter 3: Publishing missionary books: a niche market, Chapter 4: Foregrounding the printing office in the making of a printed missionary book, Chapter 5: Taking into account the particularities of missionary books, Chapter 6: A means to an end? Determining a medium to record missionary knowledge, Conclusion, Works Cited.

Über Autor(innen)

Zanna Van Loon is the curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Museum Plantin-Moretus. She obtained a PhD in Early Modern History (KU Leuven, 2020) and worked as the expert on early modern books and analytical bibliography and the project leader of STCV. The Bibliography of the Hand Press Book.