Edition Politics in Jesuit Letters Written from Japan (Évora, 1598): Analysis of three Epistles
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This paper analyzes a corpus of three letters written by Jesuits from Japan in 1562 and published in 1598 in Évora. Two versions are compared: (i) the version published in Évora, and (ii) the original one, edited by Ruiz-de-Medina from the remaining manuscripts (1995). The comparison reveals that several fragments were removed or subtly edited.
The paper argues that the differences between published and not-published versions show the Society’s aim to build an official narrative about the Japanese mission. Several tricky issues were omitted in that process. Two questions are posed and need development: what was put aside from the European readers’ eye? and why?
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