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oapen-20.500.12657-771062023-11-15T09:17:26Z Writing Tamil Catholicism Trento, Margherita Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi வீரமாமுனிவர் early modernity epic poetry Hindu-Christian encounter history of rhetoric Indian Ocean intercultural encounter Jesuit missions Madurai mission Nāyaka period South India Tamil literature translation practices vernacular Catholicism bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRC Christianity::HRCC Christian Churches & denominations::HRCC7 Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1F Asia::1FK Indian sub-continent::1FKS Sri Lanka (Ceylon) bic Book Industry Communication::2 Language qualifiers::2B Indic, East Indo-European & Dravidian languages::2BR Dravidian languages::2BRT Tamil In Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century, Margherita Trento explores the process by which the Jesuit missionary Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747), in collaboration with a group of local lay elites identified by their profession as catechists, chose Tamil poetry as the social and political language of Catholicism in eighteenth-century South India. Trento analyzes a corpus of Tamil grammars and poems, chiefly Beschi’s Tēmpāvaṇi, alongside archival documents to show how, by presenting themselves as poets and intellectuals, Catholic elites gained a persuasive voice as well as entrance into the learned society of the Tamil country and its networks of patronage. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 840879. 2023-10-31T15:45:51Z 2023-10-31T15:45:51Z 2022 book ONIX_20231031_9789004511620_3 9789004511620 9789004511613 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/77106 eng application/pdf n/a 9789004511620.pdf https://brill.com/display/title/61964 Brill 10.1163/9789004511620 10.1163/9789004511620 af16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026 178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079 9789004511620 9789004511613 European Research Council (ERC) 840879 H2020 European Research Council H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council open access
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In Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century, Margherita Trento explores the process by which the Jesuit missionary Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747), in collaboration with a group of local lay elites identified by their profession as catechists, chose Tamil poetry as the social and political language of Catholicism in eighteenth-century South India. Trento analyzes a corpus of Tamil grammars and poems, chiefly Beschi’s Tēmpāvaṇi, alongside archival documents to show how, by presenting themselves as poets and intellectuals, Catholic elites gained a persuasive voice as well as entrance into the learned society of the Tamil country and its networks of patronage. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 840879.
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