1st Edition
The Early Modern Production of Missionary Books on Indigenous Languages in New Spain and Peru
By Zanna Van Loon
Copyright 2025
398 Pages
by
Routledge
398 Pages
by
Routledge
398 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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.
Biography
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.
