A Vietnamese Moses: Philiphe Binh and the Geographies of Early Modern Catholicism

by George Edson Dutton and George E. Dutton

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A Vietnamese Moses is the story of Philiph? Binh, a Vietnamese Catholic priest who in 1796 traveled from Tonkin to the Portuguese court in Lisbon to persuade its ruler to appoint a bishop for his community of ex-Jesuits. Based on Binh's surviving writings from his thirty-seven-year...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520293436
• ISBN13: 9780520293434
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"