Thierry Meynard's academic monograph studies the 1687 Paris publication of Confucius Sinarum Philosophus, edited by the Jesuit Philippe Couplet and building on translation work by Michele Ruggieri, Matteo Ricci, Inacio da Costa and Prospero Intorcetta, as the first substantial Latin translation of the Confucian canon into a European language, examining its Jesuit accommodation method and its role in shaping Europe's early reception of Confucius.
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An academic monograph from a peer reviewed university press series studying this exact 1687 translation, tier 1, matching the tier the map gives comparable specialist scholarship, used here for the translation's editors, sources and publication details, corroborated by David Mungello's standard academic history of Jesuit sinology. NotesUsed for Confucius Sinarum Philosophus's 1687 Paris publication, its editors and its translation lineage back to Ricci and Ruggieri.
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AuthorThierry Meynard
PublisherBrill (Jesuit Studies series)
Source TypeBook (scholarly)
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