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Mandarins and martyrs : the church and the Nguyen dynasty in early nineteenth-century Vietnam

Title: Mandarins and martyrs : the church and the Nguyen dynasty in early nineteenth-century Vietnam / Jacob Ramsay.
Author: Ramsay, Jacob.
Publication: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2008.

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Description

x, 212 pages : maps; 24 cm

Summary

"This book examines the rise of anti-Catholic hostility in early nineteenth-century Vietnam under the Nguyen dynasty. French missionaries have long been blamed for the destabilization of dynastic Vietnam and the anti-Catholic violence that preceded the French invasion in 1858. But the focus on the political conflict leading to the Nguyen court's antipathy to the church overlooks the significance of Catholicism as a popular religion. Focusing on, but not limited to, the Cochinchina region, this study explores grassroots experiences of the religion and the conflict between the Nguyen court and the missionaries of the Missions Etrangeres de Paris (MEP). To do so, it draws on the correspondence of French missionaries and Vietnamese priests from the MEP archive and on vernacular Vietnamese translations of the Nguyen dynastic record to provide a new perspective on Nguyen Vietnam from the 1820s to the 1860s."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-208) and index.

Contents

Restoration and the mission -- The rise of Nguyẽ̂n anti-Catholicism -- Persecution -- Mission revival -- Priests and Mandarins -- Invasion.

ISBN

9780804756518
0804756511

LCCN

2007047227

OCLC

ocn181424190
181424190
SCSB-14483613

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library