Short assessments of new scholarship on Luso-Japanese history — journal articles, monographs, and exhibition catalogues: what is new, what it changes, and who should read it. Updated as new work appears; also available as an RSS feed.
The best study yet of the mission's most reviled superior: Zampol D'Ortia reads Cabral through Jesuit salvation theology rather than caricature, and this open-access monograph turns a stock villain into the key to understanding why Valignano's accommodation policy was needed at all.
A fresh angle on the decades after the expulsion: the Jesuits kept producing knowledge about a Japan they could no longer enter, through informant networks across East Asia and annual letters written from exile — essential context for the aftermath of 1639.
A collected volume that treats translation — of scripture, of objects, of Japan itself — as the machinery of the early modern encounter; the chapters on the Jesuit mission press and on Japanese agency in translating Christianity bear directly on how the Nanban century actually worked.
A fresh angle on the decades after the expulsion: the Jesuits kept producing knowledge about a Japan they could no longer enter, through informant networks across East Asia and annual letters written from exile — essential context for the aftermath of 1639.
A collected volume that treats translation — of scripture, of objects, of Japan itself — as the machinery of the early modern encounter; the chapters on the Jesuit mission press and on Japanese agency in translating Christianity bear directly on how the Nanban century actually worked.
The best study yet of the mission's most reviled superior: Zampol D'Ortia reads Cabral through Jesuit salvation theology rather than caricature, and this open-access monograph turns a stock villain into the key to understanding why Valignano's accommodation policy was needed at all.