The ACTA Pekinensia or Historical Records of the Maillard de Tournon Legation - Volume II: September 1706 - December 1707

An annotated translation of a full record of the papal legation of Maillard de Tournon to China (1705-1710), a crucial event in the history of Christianity and European-Chinese relations, written by Kilian Stumpf, a Jesuit missionary/scientist serving at the court of the Kangxi Emperor of China.

About the author

Paul Rule, Ph.D. (1973), Australian National University, taught Religious Studies and Chinese History at La Trobe University, Melbourne (1973-2002) and since researched for the Ricci Institutes of Macau and San Francisco on the Chinese Rites and Jesuits in China.

Claudia von Collani, Dr.Theol., is Professor at the University of Würzburg, and is a missiologist and specialist in early modern East Asian mission history. She has written extensively on the Chinese Rites Controversy, Figurism, and the exchange of knowledge between China and Europe.

Product details

• Authors: Kilian Stumpf Sj
• Assisted by: Claudia Von Collani (Editor), Paul Rule (Editor), Claudia Von Collani (Translation), Paul Rule (Translation)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2019
• EAN: 9789004396319
• ISBN: 978-90-04-39631-9
• No. of pages: 822
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 51 mm
• Weight: 1338 g
• Series: Studies in the History of Chri
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous