Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume I

The Century of Discovery. Book 2.

Donald F. Lach

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9780226467320
• eBook ISBN:
  9780226467092
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in the sixteenth-century; he surveys a vast array of writings describing Asian life and society, the images of Asia that emerge from those writings, and, in turn, the reflections of those images in European literature and art. This monumental achievement reveals profound and pervasive influences of Asian societies on developing Western culture; in doing so, it provides a perspective necessary for a balanced view of world history.

Volume I: The Century of Discovery brings together "everything that a European could know of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, from printed books, missionary reports, traders' accounts and maps" (The New York Review of Books). Volume II: A Century of Wonder examines the influence of that vast new body of information about Asia on the arts, institutions, literatures, and ideas of sixteenth-century Europe.

Index

Abano, Pietro d’, 38

“Abba” (a Bisayan word for the supreme being), 630

Abdullah Khan (Uzbek ruler), 453

“Abdutes.” See Auadhūtas

Abraam the Jew, 436

Abreu, António de, 220, 579, 586, 594, 816

Abu-ul-Fazl (Persian historian at Akbar’s court), 464 n.

Abyssinians, 283, 401, 422; expansion, 20; Prester John legend, 27, 169

“Acacan” (city on Rota island), 627 n.

Accademia degli Alterati (Florence), 477

Accolti, Vicencio, 744

Acheh (Sumatra), 137, 297, 518, 573, 576, 578

Achin. See Acheh

Acosta, Cristobal de, 194–95, 201

Acosta, José de: on Buddhism, 709; on China, 806–8; on Chinese language, 806–7; on Japan, 709; on Japanese writing, 807; and military crusade against China, 808; relations with Sanchez, 301; on southeast Asia, 498

Acquaviva, Claudio, 300, 301, 452, 695, 808

Acqui, Jacopo da, 38

Acre, 34

Acta Sanctorum, 309 n.

Acts of Thomas, 25

Adam and Eve, 19, 24

Adam’s Bridge, 409, 472

Adam’s Peak, 344

Additio Specierum (Venice), 106

Aden, 64, 112, 113

Adil Khan, ruler of Bijapur, 237, 434, 444, 470 n.

Adriatic Sea, 25, 31

“Adulraenjami,” ruler of Halmahera, 600

Aeterni regis (of 1481), 55, 56

Aethelstan, 25

Affaitadi, Giovanni Francisco, 94, 106

Affaitadi, house of, 107, 121, 126, 127

Afghans (“Pantanes”), 420, 424, 482, 819

Afonso, João, 222

Afonso, king of Portugal, 54, 55

Africa, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55. 56, 57, 58, 64, 69, 92, 93, 95, 97, 102, 109, 120, 152, 169; cartography, 23, 24, 70; censorship of information about, 153; gold, 50; ivory, 50; malagueta pepper, 50; missionaries in, 255, 294; in padroado, 229–30; Prester John legend, 26, 27, 47; sea route, 20, 50, 59, 66, 69, 70, 86, 114; slaves, 50; trade, 15, 16, 44, 50, 71, 128; Valignano on, 258

“Agacī.” See Geresik

Agra, 277, 420, 454, 455, 478, 480

“Ageres.” See Asari

Ahimsa, Jain doctrine of, 400

Ahmad Shah, ruler of Gujarat, 401

Ahmadābād, 394, 401, 454, 461, 470

Ahmednagar, 193

Ahmud IV, Deccan ruler, 383

Ai island, 609

“Aiam campetit” (p’aya of Kampengpet), 524

Ailly, Pierre d’, 57, 70, 71

Ainu, 723, 724

Ainumoshiri (“Ainomoxori”), 725

Ajuda Library (Lisbon), 187, 683 n., 686, 692, 796 n.

Akbar (also “Mahometto Zelaldim Echebar”), 453–55, 457, 480; administration, 455, 456, 457; attitude towards religions, 275–76, 277, 457, 458, 463–64; capital, 455, 480; children, 455; death, 277; Deccan wars, 277, 460, 467; foreign books and art, 278, 462; Jesuit missions to, 275–78, 448, 451–67; justice, 456; Kabul campaign of 1581, 456, 457; military forces, 456–57, 460; Queen Elizabeth’s letter to, 477, 478; vassals, 455, 457, 464

Akita, city of Japan, 724

Akyab, port of Arakan, 551 n.

“Alaodim.” See Alā’uddin

Alaric, 21

Alā’uddin, sultan of Malacca, 510, 516

Alā-ud-din Bāhman Shah, Deccan ruler, 382 n.

Alā-ud-din Shah, Deccan ruler, 383–84

Alba, Duke of, 130

Albin, Johannes, 320

Albuquerque, Afonso de, 106, 161, 506, 512, 573, 577, 578, 585, 588; administration of padroado system, 233; conquest of Goa, 113; conquest of Malacca, 113, 166, 167, 168; conquest of Ormuz, 112; death, 113; on Gujarat, 395; letters, 192; on Malaya’s early history, 509–12; relations with Sumatran states, 571; treaty of 1513 with Calicut, 113

Albuquerque, Braz de, 192, 203, 325, 497

Albuquerque, João de, viceroy, 237, 240, 252

Alcaçova, Pedro de, 290

Alcaçovas, treaty of (1479), 55, 56

Alcalá de Henares, 183, 184, 693, 701, 711

Alcobaça, 701

Aldeas (villages of Goa), 389 n.

Aldine press, 180, 205, 337

Aldus, Paulus Manutius, 150, 205

Aleppo, 130,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Title Page
• Contents
• Illustrations
• VII: Southeast Asia
• VIII: Japan
• IX: China
• X: Epilogue: A Composite Picture
• General Bibliography
• Bibliographies
• Notes
• Index