The Jesuit Relations : Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth-Century North America (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

Greer, Allan (EDT)

Bedford/st Martins（2000/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 222 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780312167073
• DDC分類 909

Full Description

As a 73-volume library, the original The Jesuit Relations has long been inaccessible to undergraduate students. Vitally important, the writings of seventeenth-century French Jesuits in Native North America tell the story of early American encounters. This new edition deftly binds them into a thematically arranged, 35-document sampler with a detailed introduction that provides background on these missionaries, the Indians, and their cohabitation in early North America. Colourful journal entries by such fathers as Paul LeJeune, Jean de Brebeuf, Isaac Jogues, and Jacques Marquette describe the Huron, Algonquin, Iroquois, and Montagnais peoples.

Contents

Foreword.- Preface.- IntroductionJesuits.- Montagnais Hunters of the Northern Woodlands.- Jean de Brebeuf on the Hurons.- Disease and Medicine.- Diplomacy and War.- Writings on the Natural Environment.- Missions to the Iroquois.- Martyrs and Mystics.- Exploring the Mississippi.- Questions for Consideration.- A Jesuit Relations Chronology.- Select Bibliography.- Index.