Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola

by Ccile Fromont and Cécile Fromont

Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans of Kongo and Angola missions, composed between 1650 and 1750 for the training of future missionaries. These "practical guides" present the intricacies of the natural, social, and religious environment of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century west-central Africa and outline the primarily visual catechization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271092181
• ISBN13: 9780271092188
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 3.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.1" x 10.5"