Parution : Zanna van Loon, "The Early Modern Production of Missionary Books on Indigenous Languages in New Spain and Peru", Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2024

How do the social, material, and spatial processes underlying the making of early modern missionary grammars, vocabularies, and devotional translations deepen our understanding of their contents? The handwritten and printed missionary books produced in the Spanish viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru were key instruments designed to help study Indigenous languages in order to efficiently teach religious doctrine to local communities unfamiliar with European culture and religion. This volume c...