International audienceEast Indian languages were instruments serving the three primary motives of the discovery of new lands: conquest, commerce and conversion. The routes of the languages coincide with those of spices and of silk, especially in the first half of the 16th century when a multitude of idioms were learned in the rush to install fortresses, trading posts and churches, before giving rise to any major scientific interest (for Chinese and Japonese in particular). These "travelling languages" opened Western knowledge to a linguistic colonization. They fed a certain taste for the marvellous which transformed itself throughout the 17th century into literary exoticism. At a time when Protestants conducted their own missions, Jesuits a...
The great civilizations of the Southern Hemisphere were in contact and merged in the South West Indi...
Missionary history has been acknowledged in recent years as a fundamental context for the emergence ...
Cet ouvrage d’essais se propose de reconstruire les échanges, les réactions, les affinités et les ru...
International audienceEast Indian languages were instruments serving the three primary motives of th...
International audienceEast Indian languages were instruments serving the three primary motives of th...
East Indian languages were instruments serving the three primary motives of the discovery of new lan...
East Indian languages were instruments serving the three primary motives of the discovery of new lan...
From the inception of French Orient Company in 1642 to the end of the royal privilege bequeathed to ...
From the inception of French Orient Company in 1642 to the end of the royal privilege bequeathed to ...
An indo-portuguese territory on the pepper route : Goa Conquered in 1510, Goa went through stunning...
Les récits des voyageurs, réputés pour leur caractère authentique, se présentent comme une source d’...
Florence D'Souza : In search of Indian texts. Serious Orientalist study was only established in the...
De la création de la compagnie d'Orient en 1642 à la fin du privilège de la compagnie française des ...
The first Jesuit missions established in 1542 by François Xavier in the Southern tip of India operat...
The first Jesuit missions established in 1542 by François Xavier in the Southern tip of India operat...
The great civilizations of the Southern Hemisphere were in contact and merged in the South West Indi...
Missionary history has been acknowledged in recent years as a fundamental context for the emergence ...
Cet ouvrage d’essais se propose de reconstruire les échanges, les réactions, les affinités et les ru...
International audienceEast Indian languages were instruments serving the three primary motives of th...
International audienceEast Indian languages were instruments serving the three primary motives of th...
East Indian languages were instruments serving the three primary motives of the discovery of new lan...
East Indian languages were instruments serving the three primary motives of the discovery of new lan...
From the inception of French Orient Company in 1642 to the end of the royal privilege bequeathed to ...
From the inception of French Orient Company in 1642 to the end of the royal privilege bequeathed to ...
An indo-portuguese territory on the pepper route : Goa Conquered in 1510, Goa went through stunning...
Les récits des voyageurs, réputés pour leur caractère authentique, se présentent comme une source d’...
Florence D'Souza : In search of Indian texts. Serious Orientalist study was only established in the...
De la création de la compagnie d'Orient en 1642 à la fin du privilège de la compagnie française des ...
The first Jesuit missions established in 1542 by François Xavier in the Southern tip of India operat...
The first Jesuit missions established in 1542 by François Xavier in the Southern tip of India operat...
The great civilizations of the Southern Hemisphere were in contact and merged in the South West Indi...
Missionary history has been acknowledged in recent years as a fundamental context for the emergence ...
Cet ouvrage d’essais se propose de reconstruire les échanges, les réactions, les affinités et les ru...