Writing the history of the Islamic world in Counter-Reformation Spain

meeting 2 ht

J. Román, Repúblicas de Turcos, Tunez y Fez, in his Republicas del mundo, divididas en XXVIII libros (Medina del Campo: Francisco del Canto, 1575), pt. 2, fols. 425r-456r.

 

For an introductory reading about the author and the work, see J.-P. Rubiés, ‘The concept of gentile civilization in missionary discourse and its European reception: Mexico, Peru and China in the Repúblicas del Mundo by Jerónimo Román (1575-1595)’, in Ch. de Castelnau-l’Estoile, M.-L. Copete, A. Maldavsky and I.G. Zupanov (eds), Missions d’évangelisation et circulation des savoirs, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle (2011), 311-350; more specifically on the section about the Islamic world, see F. Elías de Tejada, ‘Fray Gerónimo Román y el estudio político del Islam en España’, Revista de la Facultad de Derecho de Madrid 18-19 (1950-1951): 37-67 

 

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