Vasco da Gama and the periodization of Christian history

Vasco da Gama, the event and its interpretation, plays a significant role in the periodization of Christian history in general, and particularly for the historiography of mission. For West and East alike, Vasco da Gama's voyages to India represent a major 'caesura' of history. Any jux...

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Main Author: Ustorf, Werner 1945- (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Lang 2000
In: Identity and marginality
Year: 2000, Pages: 89-97
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Gama, Vasco da 1469-1524 / Church history studies / Periodization
B India / Colonialism / History 1482-1489
IxTheo Classification:KAA Church history
KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance
KBM Asia
RJ Mission; missiology