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Accepted Paper:
Revisting the "Conquista Espiritual do Oriente" of frei Paulo da Trindade
Zoltán Biedermann
(University College London)
Paper short abstract:
An analysis of the third part of the "Conquista Espiritual do Oriente" by Frei Paulo da Trindade, the main Franciscan source for the religious history of Ceylon.
Paper long abstract:
This paper will revolve around a careful analysis of the narrative strategies of Frei Paulo da Trindade in the third part of the "Conquista Espiritual do Oriente", the main Franciscan source for the religious history of Ceylon. I will be looking out for echoes of the conflict that opposed the Franciscans, who were the sole missionaries in the island during the sixteenth century, to the Jesuits, who entered the field around 1600. Attention will be paid to the relationship between narrative and geographical descriptions and to the dense historical passages exploring the island's Buddhist and Hindu past, highlighting the importance of the work in the overall panorama of seventeenth-century Portuguese imperial literature.