In Envoys of A Human God Andreu Martínez offers an insightful study of the Jesuit mission to Christian Ethiopia. The work combines different approaches -cultural-historical, political and sociological- and draws from a multiplicity of sources, from archival research to archaeology.

Acknowledgments Glossary of terms Introduction Connecting the Local and the Global Missions The Followers of Iyasus Geographical Setting and Historical Background Sources and Historiography Note on Transcription Note on the Units of Measure and Currencies List of Figures, Maps, Plates and Tables Figures Maps Plates Tables List of Abbreviations Archives and Libraries Literature PART I. FROM DIU TO F REMONA 1. The Prester John's New Clothes The courting of the n gus Dom Joao III: Religious Reform as Expansion The Preste's New Clothes 2. From Santiago to St. Paul Evangelizing the Preste Santiago's Last Call Paul's Momentum 3. Native Networks The Carreira to the Preste Diu and the Banyans Massawa, F remona and the Ethio-Portuguese PART II. FROM F REMONA TO GORGORA 4. Mission Metrics 1555-1603: Difficult Beginnings 1603-1623: Setting up a Local Missionary Network 1623-1632: The Catholic Patriarchate and the Expansion of the Network 5. Mission Politics The Reducao of Christian Ethiopia Observation, Deconstruction and Replacement of Ethiopian Christianity Beyond Absolutism 6. Mission Culture The Presentation of Self in Missionary Life A Theology of the Visible Spaces of Faith, Spaces of Power Mission Support PART III. FROM GORGORA TO GOA 7. Yat nt Utopian Ethiopia The Mission of the Qwallafa and Chalcedonians From Dissent to Open Resistance 8. Exile and Memory The Mission after the Jesuits Longing for Ethiopia A Mission between Oblivion and Curiosity 9. Conclusions Appendices Appendix 1: Leading political figures in the Red Sea, India and Europe, ca. 1600-1635 Appendix 2: National and provincial rulers in Christian Ethiopia, 1603-1636 Appendix 3: Jesuit missionaries in Ethiopia, 1555-1632 Appendix 4: Intellectual production during the mission, 1611-1632 Appendix 5: Genealogical chart of the extended Ethiopian royal family (ca. 1550-1640) Sources and bibliography Unpublished sources Published sources Works of secondary literature cited in the text