The Commentaries of D. García de Silva Y Figueroa on His Embassy to Shāh ʿabbās I of Persia on Behalf of Philip III, King of Spain

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34631-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 928 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1588 g

Reihe: European Expansion and Indigen

The Commentaries is the first complete English language translation, with complete annotations, of a unique and extraordinary memoir from the pen of the erudite Spanish soldier-diplomat D. García de Silva y Figueroa over the course of his embassy to Persia (1614–1624). The Commentaries transcend the travel-literature genre, emerging as a precocious European intellectual global history that is remarkable for its encyclopedic breadth, its historical depth, and its ethnographic and even artistic sensitivity. The Commentaries will be of interest to historians, ethnographers, and literary critics, or anyone with an interest in early modern European accounts of the encounter between the Portuguese and Spanish Empires and Safavid Persia during the early modern period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Turley, Jeffrey Scott

Souza, George Bryan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Tables, Maps, and Plates
Measurements
Monies
Abbreviations

Introduction

The Commentaries of D. García de Silva y Figueroa on his Embassy to Shah 'Abbas I of Persia on behalf of Philip III, king of Spain
Book I [The Voyage to India April–November 1614]

Book II Description of the Island and City of Goa

Book III [Goa to Hormuz 21 March–12 October 1617]

Book IV [Journey to Qazvin and Meeting with Shah, 12 October 1617–1618]

Book V [Report on the Regions of the Persian Empire]

Book VI [Long-delayed Meetings with Shah 'Abbas I in Esfahan and Return to Goa, 27 July 1618–15 December 1620]

Book VII [First Attempt to Return to Spain and Forced Return from Mozambique to Goa. Account of Loss of Qeshm and Hormuz. D. García de Silva y Figueroa’s Final Departure from Goa. 19 December 1620–28 April 1624]

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey S. Turley is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Brigham Young University, where he currently holds a College of Humanities Professorship. He is the translator and co-editor with Souza of The Boxer Codex: Transcription and Translation of an Illustrated Late Sixteenth-Century Spanish Manuscript Concerning the Geography, History and Ethnography of the Pacific, South-East and East Asia (Brill, 2015).

George Bryan Souza is affiliated with the Department of History, University of Texas, San Antonio and, recently, a Mercator Guest Professor at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. He is the author of The Survival of Empire (CUP, 1986, 2004), Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese in Maritime Asia, c. 1595-1800 (Ashgate / Variorium, 2014), and a co-editor of Hinterlands and Commodities (Brill, 2014). He is the General Editor of Brill’s EURO series.