Through essays on its key players, detailed original maps, and a narrative drawn from contemporary Italian and Latin sources never before translated into Englis

Following the pioneering work of Francis Xavier in establishing Christianity in Japan, his successor Alessandro Valignano, decided to send a legation to Europe

In 1582 Alessandro Valignano, the Visitor to the Jesuit mission in the East Indies, sent four Japanese boys to Europe. Until the arrival of the embassy in Europ

Asia is by far the largest continent in the world. The global expansion of the church, which emanated from the Middle East (as explored in the first book in the

Meticulously researched and drawing on original source materials written in eight different languages, this study fills a lacuna in the historiography of Christ