BIBLIOGRAPHY:
WORKS QUOTED
AND MATERIALS FOR FURTHER RESEARCHAbbreviations
MMA Monumenta Missionaria Africana, ed. Brásio (1952+)
MMA2 Monumenta Missionaria Africana, segunda série, ed. Brásio (1958+)
Printed works (Manuscripts are indicated in the notes.)
INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL WORKS
Boxer, C.R. (1969), The Portuguese seaborne empire, 1415-1825. London.
Brásio, A. (1952), Monumenta Missionaria Africana, 11 vols. so far. Lisbon.
Brásio, A. (1963), "Ainda a promoção socerdotal do Africano," Portugal em Africa, XX, 135-55.
Clemente da Terzorio (1938), Le missioni dei Minori Cappuccini, sunto storico, vol. 10: Africa 1637-1938. Rome.
Gams, P.B. (1957), Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae. Graz (reprint of 1873-86).
Gore, Charles, Bibliography of published research on Benin City: http://www.cgore.dircon.co.uk
Gray, R. (1969), "The early missionary effort in Africa: a failure?," African Ecclesiastical Review, XI, 294-306.
Gray, R., ed. (1975), The Cambridge History of Africa, vol. 4: from c. 1600 to c. 1790. Cambridge.
Guerreiro, F. (1930-42), Relação anual das coisas que fizeram os padres da Companhia de Jesus... 3 vols. (2nd ed.). Coimbra.
Hodgkin, T. (1960), Nigerian perspectives. London.
Jadin, L. (1973), "L'oeuvre missionnaire en Afrique noire," in Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide memoria rerum, vol. I/2 (1622-1700), 415-546. Rome.
Kilger, L. (1930), "Die Missionen in Oberguinea und in Ostafrika nach der ersten Propaganda-materialen (1622-1670)," Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft, XX, 297-311.
Marcellino da Civezza (1857-95), Storia universale delle missioni francescane, 7 vols. in 11. Rome and Florence.
Metzler, J. (1973), "Missionsbemühungen der Kongregation in Schwarzafrika," in Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide memoria rerum, II (1700-1815), 882-932. Rome.
Rego, António da Silva, Portuguese colonization in the 16th century. Johannesburg, 1959.
Rocco da Cesinale (1873), Storia delle missioni dei Cappuccini, III: Africa. Roma.
CHAPTER 1: THE DIOCESE OF GOA - THE PORTUGUESE IN EAST AFRICA
Abraham, D.P. (1962), "The early political history of the kingdom of Mwene-Mutapa (850-1589)," in Historians in tropical Africa, Salisbury.
Andrade, A.A. de, ed. (1955), Relações de Moçambique Setecentista. Lisbon.
Álvares, F. (1945), Verdadeira informação das terras do Preste João das Indias. Lisbon. English translation: The Prester John of the Indies. Cambridge, 1961.
Aregay, M.W. and G. Beshah (1964), The question of the union of churches in Luso-Ethiopian relations 1500-1632. Lisbon.
Aregay, M.W. (1971), Southern Ethiopia and the Christian kingdom, 1508-1708. Ph.D. thesis, University of London.
Axelson, E., ed. (1959), "Viagem que fez o Padre António Gomes, da Companhia de Jesus, ao Imperio de Manomotapa...," Studia, III, 155-242.
Axelson, E. (1961), "Portuguese settlement in the interior of southeast Africa in the seventeenth century," Congresso Internacional de História dos Descobrimentos, Actas, V, parte II, 1-17. Lisbon.
Axelson, E. (1964), Portuguese in southeast Africa, 1600-1700. Johannesburg.
Beccari, C. (1914), Rerum Aethiopicarum scriptores occidentales inediti a saeculo XVI ad XIX. Rome.
Berg, F.J. (1968), "The Swahili community of Mombasa, 1500-1900," Journal of African History, IX, 13-33.
Boxer, C.R. (1953), "The Portuguese in the East, 1500-1800," in Livermore, H.V., ed., Portugal and Brazil, 185-247. Oxford.
Boxer, C.R. and C. de Azevedo (1960), Fort Jesus and the Portuguese in Mombasa, 1593-1729. London.
Boxer, C.R. (1960), "A Dominican account of Zambezia in 1744," Boletim da Sociedade de Estudos de Moçambique, n. 125, secção E, 5, 1-14.
Brásio, A. (1950), "O esforço missionário dos Irmãos de S. João de Deus," Portugal em Africa, VII, 271-9, 348-59.
Conti Rossini, C. (1928), Storia d'Etiopia, vol. II of Africa Italiana, Milan.
Documentos sobre os Portugueses em Moçambique e na Africa Central (1497-1840). 7 vols. (1962-71). Lisbon.
Ferraz, M. (1973), Documentação histórica Moçambicana. Lisbon.
Freeman-Grenville, G.S.P. (1975), The East African coast, select documents from the first to the earlier nineteenth century. London.
Gallina, F. (1890), "I Portughesi a Massawa nei secoli XVI e XVII," Bolletino della Società Geografica Italiana, ser. III, 3.
Garcia, António (1969), História de Moçambique cristão. Lourenço Marques.
Grandidier, A. and Guillaume, eds. (1903-20), Collection des ouvrages anciens concernant Madagascar, 9 vols. Paris.
Gray, John M. (1962), History of Zanzibar from the middle ages to 1856. London.
Jadin, L. (1956), "Recherches dans les archives et bibliotèques d'Italie et du Portugal sur l'ancien Congo," Bulletin de l'Académie Royal des Sciences Coloniales, II, 951-990. Brussels.
Kent, R.K. (1970), Early kingdoms in Madagascar, 1500-1700, New York.
Kilger, L. (1917), "Die ersten zwei Jahrhunderte ostafrikanischer Mission," Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft, VII, 97-109.
Loedding, J. (1974), Die schwarz-weisse Legion, Missionsgeschichte des Dominikanerordens. Köln.
Newitt, M.D.D. (1973), Portuguese settlement on the Zambesi. London.
Rego, António da Silva (1959), Portuguese colonization in the 16th century. Johannesburg.
Rommerskirchen, J. (1951), "Madagascar, evangelizzazione," Enciclopedia Cattolica, VII, 1786-8.
Sanceau, E. (1944), The land of Prester John. New York.
Schebesta, P. (1966), Portugals Konquistamission in Sudost-Afrika. Studia Instituti Missiiologici Societatis Verbi Divini, n. 7. St. Augustin.
Shinnie, P.L. (1971), "The culture of medieval Nubia and its impact on Africa," in Yûsuf Fald Hasan (ed.), Sudan in Africa. Khartoum.
Silva, A. da (1967), Mentalidade missiológica dos Jesuitas em Moçambique antes de 1759, 2 vols. Lisbon.
Somigli di S. Detole, T. (1928-48), Etiopia francescana nei documenti dei secoli XVII e XVIII, vols. I and II of Biblioteca Bibliografica della Terra Santa e dell' Oriente francescana, ser. 3. Florence.
Strandes, J. (1961), The Portuguese period in East Africa, tr. by J.F. Wallwork form the German of 1899. Nairobi.
Tamrat, Taddesse (1972), Church and state in Ethiopia, 1270-1527. Oxford.
Trimingham, J.S. (1972), Islam in Ethiopia. London.
Whiteway, R.S. (1902), The Portuguese expedition to Abyssinia in 1541-1543, as narrated by Castanhoso... London.
CHAPTER 2: THE DIOCESE OF SÃO SALVADOR - CONGO AND ANGOLA
Axelson, S. (1970), Culture confrontation in the lower Congo. Uppsala.
Bal, W., ed. (1963), Description du Royaume de Congo et des contrées environnantes par Filippo Pigafetta et Duarte Lopes (1591). Louvain.
Bal, W. (1963), Le royaume du Congo aux XVe et XVIe siècles. Leopoldville.
Balandier, G. (1965), La vie quotidienne au royaume du Congo du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle. Paris. English tr.: Daily life in the kingdom of the Kongo, from the 16th to the 18th century. London, 1968.
Bontinck, F., ed. (1964), Brève relation de la fondation de la mission des Frères Mineurs Capucins... au royaume de Congo. Louvain.
Bontinck, F. (1970), Diaire congolais (1690-1701) de Fra Luca da Caltanisetta. Louvain.
Bontinck, F., ed. (1972), "Histoire du Royaume de Congo (c. 1624)," Études d'histoire africaine, IV.
Boxer, C.R. (1965), Portuguese society in the tropics. Madison.
Brásio, A. (1944), "Os proto-missionários do Congo,", Portugal em Africa, I, 99-112.
Brásio, A. (1945), "Trecentenaria da 'missão' do Congo," Portugal em Africa, II, 166-75.
Brásio, A. (1949a), "A 'História do reino do Congo'," Portugal em Africa, VI, 153-61.
Brásio, A. (1951a), "Criação da Diocese de Angola et Congo," Portugal em Africa, VIII, 133-45.
Brásio, A. (1969), História do reino do Congo. Lisbon.
Cadornega, A. de Oliveira de (1940-2), História geral das guerras Angolanas, 3 vols. Lisbon.
Cavazzi, Giovanni-Antonio (1687), Istorica descrizione de tre reigni, Congo, Matamba e Angola. Bologna. An annotated Portuguese tr.: Descrição histórica dos três reinos do Congo, Matamba e Angola, 2 vols. Lisbon, 1965.
Crisógono de Jesús Sacramentado (1950), "Vida de San Juan de la Cruz," in Matias del Niño Jesús, ed., Vida y obras de San Juan de la Cruz. Madrid.
Cuvelier, J. & Jadin, L. (1954), L'ancien Congo d'après les archives romaines 1518-1640. Brussels.
Cuvelier, J. (1957), Koningen Nzinga van Matamba. Brussels.
Delgado, R. (1948-55), História de Angola, 5 vols. Benguela.
Filesi, T. (1970), Roma e Congo all'inizio del 1600, nuove testimonianze. Como.
Filesi, T. (1972), Nazionalismo e religione nel Congo all'inizio del 1700: la setta degli Antoniani. Rome.
Filesi, T. (1967), San Salvador, Cronache dei re del Congo. Bologna.
Florencio del Niño Jesús (1929), La mision del Congo y los Carmelitas.
Florencio del Niño Jesús (1934), Fr. Francisco el Indigno, apóstol del Congo (1529-1601).
Hildebrand, P. (1940), Le Martyr Georges de Geel et les débuts de la mission du Congo 1645-1652. Antwerp.
Jadin, L. (1961), "Le Congo et la sect des Antoniens," BIHBR, XXX, 411-615.
Jadin, L. (1964), "Le clergé séculier et les Capucins du Congo et d'Angola... conflicts de jurisdictions 1700-1726," BIHBR, XXXVI, 185-483.
Jadin, L. (1966), "Rivalités luso-néerlandaises au Sohio, Congo, 1600-1675," BIHBR, XXXVII, 137-359.
Jadin, L. (1967), "Pero Tavares, missionaire jésuite et ses travaux apostoliques au Congo et en Angola 1629-1635," BIHBR, XXXVIII, 271-402.
Jadin, L. (1968), "Relations sur le Congo et l'Angola tirées des archives de la Compagnie de Jésus 1621-1631," BIHBR, XXXIX, 333-454.
Lobato, A. (1954-60), A expansão Portuguesa em Moçambique de 1498 a 1530, 3 vols. Lisbon.
Manso, M.L.J. Visconde de Paiva (1877), História do Congo (Documentos). Lisbon.
Oliveira, M.A.F. de (1968+), Angolana - Documentação sobre Angola, volumes in progress. Lisbon.
Planequart, M. (1971), Les Yaka, essai d'histoire. Tervuren, Belgium.
Randles, W.G.L. (1968), L'ancien royaume du Congo, des origines à la fin du XIX siècle. Paris.
Rego, A. da Silva (1970), O ultramar Português no século XVIII (1700-1833). Lisbon.
Toso, C. (1973), Relazioni inedite di P. Bonaventura Rebauda da Ceriana sulla missione "ne' regni di Congo, Angola e luoghi adiacenti". Rome.
Torres, J.C. (1825), Memórias contendo... a história... de Angola desde 1575 até 1825. Paris.
CHAPTER 3: THE DIOCESE OF SÃO TOMÉ - LOWER GUINEA
Adams, John (1825), Remarks on the country extending from Cape Palmas to the river Congo. London, reprinted 1968.
Anguiano, M. de (1957), Misiones Capuchinas en Africa. Madrid.
Aroux de Saint Vincent, ch. (1900), "La mission du V.P. Gonzalez François en Guinée, sur les côtes d'Afrique," in Année dominicaine, I, 461-75. Lyon, reprint of 1702.
Bane, M. (1956), Catholic pioneers in West Africa. Dublin.
Bane, M. (1968), The Popes and Western Africa, an outline of mission history 1460s - 1960s. New York.
Blake, J.W., ed. (1942), Europeans in West Africa, 1450-1560, 2 vols. London.
Bosman, W. (1967), Description of Guinea. London, reprint of 1705.
Brásio, A. (1949b), "Dom Frei Bernardo da Cruz, bispo de S. Tomé," Portugal em Africa, VI, 321-33.
Brásio, A. (1951b), "D. Frei João Baptista, OP, bispo de S. Tomé?" Portugal em Africa, VIII, 275-87.
Dapper, Olfert (1676 & 1868), Naukeurige Beschrijvinge der Afrikanenshe Gewesten van Egypten, Barbaryen, Libyen, Biledulgerid, Negroslant, Guinaea, Ethiopien, Abyssinie. Amsterdam.
Debrunner, Hans (1967), A history of Christianity in Ghana. Accra.
Egharevba, Jacob (1960), A short history of Benin, 3rd ed. Ibadan (1st ed. 1934).
Fage, J.D. (1961), Ghana, a historical interpretation. Madison.
Kilger, L. (1932), "Die Missionsversuche in Benin," Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft, XXII, 305-19.
Labouret, H. & Rivet, P. (1929), Le royaume d'Ardra et son évangélization au XVIIe siècle. Paris.
Lloyd, P.C. (1963), "The Itsekiri in the nineteenth century: an outline social history," Journal of African History, IV, 207-31.
Loenertz, R.J. (1954), "Dominicains français missionnaires en Guinée en XVIIe siècle," Archivum Fratrum Predicatorum, XXIV, 240-68.
Loyer, G. (1714), "Relation du voyage du royaume d'Issiny, côte d'Or, pais de Guinée en Afrique," reprinted in P. Roussier, L'établissement d'Issiny 1687-1702 (Paris, 1935), 109-235.
Mauro, Fréderic (1960), Portugal et l'Atlantique au XVIIe siècle. Paris.
Mota, A. Texeira de 91974), As viagens do bispo D. Frei Vitoriano Portuense à Guiné e a critização dos reis de Bisau. Lisbon.
Ryder, A.F.C. (1958), "the story of dom Domingos," Odu, n. 4, 27-39.
Ryder, A.F.C. (1959), "An early Portuguese voyage to the Forcados river," Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, I, 294-321.
Ryder, A.F.C. (1960), "Missionary activity in the kingdom of Warri to the early nineteenth century," Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, II, 1-26.
Ryder, A.F.C. (1960, "The Benin missions," Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, II, 231-59.
Ryder, A.F.C. (1965a), "A reconsideration of the Ife-Benin relationship," Journal of African History, VI, 25-37.
Ryder, A.F.C. (1965b), "Portuguese and Dutch in West Africa before 1800," in J. Ajayi ed., A thousand years of West African history, 212-32. Ibadan.
Ryder, A.F.C. (1969a), Benin and the Europeans, 1485-1897. London.
Ryder, A.F.C. (1969b), "Portuguese missions in western Africa," Tarikh, III:1, 2-13.
Salvadorini, V.A. (1972), Le missioni a Benin e Warri nel XVII secolo. Rome.
Wiltgen, Ralph M. (1956), Gold coast mission history, 1471-1880. Techny.
CHAPTER 4: THE DIOCESE OF SANTIAGO - UPPER GUINEA
Barcelos, C.J. de Sena (1899-1913), Subsidios para a história de Cabo Verde e Guiné. Lisbon.
Barreto, J. (1938), História da Guiné. Lisbon.
Brásio, A. (1958+), Monumenta Missionaria Africana, segunda série, 5 vols. so far. Lisbon.
Cultru, P. (1910), Histoire du Sénégal du XVe siècle à 1870. Paris.
Deschamps, H. (1970), Les Européens sur les côtes atlantiques aux 17e et 18e siècles, vol. I of Histoire générale de l'Afrique noire. Paris.
Fortiguerri, Nicholà (n.d.), Memorie intorno alle missioni di Africa, di Asia e di America, estratte dall'Archivo di Propaganda Fide, d'ordine della santa memoria di Clemente XI (1707). Rome.
Fyfe, C. (1962), A history of Sierra Leone. London.
Fyfe, C. (1964), Sierra Leone inheritance. London.
Mota, A. Teixeira da (1954), Guiné Portuguesa, 2 vols. Lisbon.
Rodney, W. (1968), "Jihad and social revolution in Futa Djalon in the eighteenth century," Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, IV, 269-84.
Rodney, W. (1970), A history of the Upper Guinea coast 1540-1800. Oxford.
CHAPTER 5: THE GOSPEL ACROSS THE SAHARA AND FROM NUBIA
Adams, W.Y. (1977), Nubia, corridor to Africa. London.
Barros, João de (1945), Asia. Lisbon, reprint of 1553.
Bivar, A.D.H. & Shinnie, P.L. (1962), "Old Kanuri capitals," Journal of African History, III, 1-10.
Bovill, E.W., ed. (1966), Missions to the Niger. Cambridge.
Fardé, Pieter (1903), Reizen en Lotgevallen van Broeder Pieter Fardé, ed. by S. Schoutens, part II of Belgische Reizigers der Minderbroedersorde. Hoogstraten.
Filippo da Segni (1870), "Viaggio del Padre Filippo da Segni da Tripoli di Barbaria al Boornoù nel 1850," Bolletino della Società Geografica Italiana, IV, 137-50.
Fisher, H. (1971), "Firearms in the Central Sudan," Journal of African History, XII, 215-239.
Goyens, Jérome (1914), "Notes biographiques et documents du Fr. Pierre Fardé O.F.M.," Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, VII, 20-31.
Gray, R. (1967), "Christian traces and a Franciscan mission in the Central Sudan, 1700-1711," Journal of African History, VIII, 383-93.
Hickey, R. (1976), "The first visit by a Catholic priest to Borno in 1850," Savanna, V:1, 45-54.
Kalck, Pierre (1972), "Pour une localisation du royaume de Gaoga," Journal of African History, XIII, 529-48.
Kenny, J., "A seventeenth century Belgian visitor to Agadez and the north of Nigeria: Pieter Fardé," Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, 10:4 (1981), 73-89.
Last, D.M. (1967), The Sokoto Caliphate. London.
Meek, C.K. (1931), A Sudanese kingdom, an ethnographical study of the Jukun-speaking peoples of Nigeria. London.
Monneret de Villard, U. (1938), Storia della Nubia Cristiana. Rome.
Nissen, M. (1968), An African Church is born. Denmark.
O'Fahey, R.S. & Spalding, J.L. (1973), "Comment: the geographical location of Gaoga," with reply of P. Kalck, Journal of African History, XIV, 505-8.
Obayemi, A. (1971), "The Yoruba and Edo-speaking peoples and their neighbours before 1600," in J. Ajayi & M. Crowder, eds., History of West Africa, I, 196-263. London.
Palmer, H.R. (1928), Sudanese memoirs. London, reprinted in 1967.
Palmer, H.R. (1929-30), "The kingdom of Gaoga of Leo Africanus," Journal of the African Society, XXIX, 280-4, 350-69.
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