A Report Of The Kingdom Of Congo
A Report Of The Kingdom Of Congo

Author: Duarte Lopes

Publisher:

Published: 2021-03-15

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9789354487224

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A Report Of The Kingdom Of Congo: And Of The Surrounding Countries; Drawn Out Of The Writings And Discourses Of The Portuguese has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

The Kongo Kingdom
The Kongo Kingdom

Author: Koen Bostoen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1108474187

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A unique and forward-thinking book that sheds new light on the origins, dynamics, and cosmopolitan culture of the Kongo Kingdom from a cross-disciplinary perspective.

A Report of the Kingdom of Congo
A Report of the Kingdom of Congo

Author: Duarte Lopes

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781019377352

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This book is a fascinating firsthand account of the Kingdom of Congo in the 16th century, written by Duarte Lopes, a Portuguese explorer who spent several years in the region. Lopes describes the geography, customs, and political system of the kingdom, as well as its history of trade and contact with other cultures. The book also includes an appendix by Filippo Pigafetta, an Italian scholar who provides additional details on the people and places mentioned by Lopes. This edition features a new introduction and annotations by historians. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Art of Conversion
The Art of Conversion

Author: Cécile Fromont

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2014-12-19

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1469618729

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Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, Cecile Fromont examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture and traces its development across four centuries marked by war, the Atlantic slave trade, and, finally, the rise of nineteenth-century European colonialism. By offering an extensive analysis of the religious, political, and artistic innovations through which the Kongo embraced Christianity, Fromont approaches the country's conversion as a dynamic process that unfolded across centuries. The African kingdom's elite independently and gradually intertwined old and new, local and foreign religious thought, political concepts, and visual forms to mold a novel and constantly evolving Kongo Christian worldview. Fromont sheds light on the cross-cultural exchanges between Africa, Europe, and Latin America that shaped the early modern world, and she outlines the religious, artistic, and social background of the countless men and women displaced by the slave trade from central Africa to all corners of the Atlantic world.