Luís Fróis’s História de Japam: aims and methods

Thesis

The focus of the thesis is the work of the Portuguese Jesuit missionary Luís Fróis (1532-97). It refutes the view of the historiography that has considered his magnum opus the História de Japam, produced between 1584-93, as bona fide and as one of the most reliable sources on the basis that he was often either a protagonist or an eyewitness of the events that he relates. As it will be shown in this work, Fróis is selective in the manner in which he deletes, adds or avoids facts, or simply ...

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Authors: Takamura, JA

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: Spanish, Latin, Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, and English
• Keywords: Luís Fróis; Society of Jesus; Japan; Jesuit's letters; História de Japam; Japanese mission
• Subjects: Japanese; Jesuits--Missions; Iberian Peninsula; Early modern, 1500-1700