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  1. From Idolatry to Religions: the Missionary Discourses on Hinduism and Buddhism and the Invention of Monotheistic Confucianism, 1550-1700

    Article • Journal of Early Modern History, November 2020, Brill

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  2. Introduction: Early Catholic Orientalism and the Missionary Discovery of Asian Religions

    Article • Journal of Early Modern History, November 2020, Brill

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  3. Political Rationality and Cultural Distance in the European Embassies to Shah Abbas

    Article • Journal of Early Modern History, July 2016, Brill

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  4. Diplomacy and Cultural Translation

    Article • Journal of Early Modern History, July 2016, Brill

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  5. From Christian Apologetics to Deism

    Article • May 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  6. Peiresc’s Mediterranen World, written by Peter N. Miller

    Article • Erudition and the Republic of Letters, April 2016, Brill

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  7. Tamil Voices in the Lutheran Mission of South India (1705-1714)

    Article • Journal of Early Modern History, December 2015, Brill

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  8. The Comparative History of a Genre: The production and circulation of books on travel and ethnographies in early modern Europe and China

    Article • Modern Asian Studies, August 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  9. Before Orientalism: Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-1510 by Kim M. Phillips

    Article • Annales Histoire Sciences Sociales, January 2015, Project Muse

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  10. Boekbesprekingen

    Article • Studium, June 2012, Uopen Journals

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  11. Real and Imaginary Dialogues in the Jesuit Mission of Sixteenth-century Japan

    Article • Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, January 2012, Brill

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  12. Rhetoric and ideology in theBook of Ramon Muntaner

    Article • Mediterranean Historical Review, April 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  13. Chapter Two. Late Medieval Ambassadors And The Practice Of Cross-Cultural Encounters 1250–1450

    Article • January 2009, Brill

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  14. Another face of empire. Bartolomé de Las Casas, indigenous rights, and ecclesiastical imperalism. By Daniel Castro. (Latin America Otherwise. Languages, Empires, Nations.) Pp. xii+234. Durham–London: Duke University Press, 2007. £53 (cloth), £13.99 (p...

    Article • The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, October 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  15. Travel Writing and Humanistic Culture: A Blunted Impact?

    Article • January 2007, Brill

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  16. Travel writing and humanistic culture: A blunted impact?

    Article • Journal of Early Modern History, January 2006, Brill

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  17. Theology, Ethnography, and the Historicization of Idolatry

    Article • Journal of the History of Ideas, January 2006, Project Muse

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  18. Pamela  Smith;, Paula  Findlen (Editors).Merchants and Marvels: Commerce and the Representation of Nature in Early Modern Europe. ix + 437 pp., illus., index. New York: Routledge, 2001. $27.95 (paper).

    Article • Isis, June 2005, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  19. Oriental Despotism and European Orientalism: Botero to Montesquieu

    Article • Journal of Early Modern History, January 2005, Brill

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  20. Book Review: Rivers of Gold. The Rise of the Spanish Empire

    Article • European History Quarterly, January 2005, SAGE Publications

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  21. Empires: Perspectives from archaeology and history

    Article • The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  22. The Spanish contribution to the ethnology of Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

    Article • Renaissance Studies, September 2003, Wiley

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  23. The Jesuit Discovery of Hinduism. Antonio Rubino’s Account of the History and Religion of Vijayanagara (1608)

    Article • Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, January 2001, De Gruyter

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  24. Chivalry and Exploration 1298-1630

    Article • The Modern Language Review, October 2000, JSTOR

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  25. Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance

    Article • January 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  26. Travel Writing as a Genre: Facts, Fictions and the Invention of a Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Europe

    Article • Journeys, January 2000, Berghahn Journals

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  27. Writing East: The 'Travels' of Sir John Mandeville

    Article • The Modern Language Review, July 1999, JSTOR

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  28. Instructions for travellers: Teaching the eye to see

    Article • History and Anthropology, March 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  29. Critical review of a major study of medieval Spanish historiography

    Article • Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, October 1995, Liverpool University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  30. Reason of state and constitutional thought in the crown of Aragon, 1580–1640

    Article • The Historical Journal, March 1995, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  31. The phoenix and the flame. Catalonia and the Counter Reformation. By Henry Kamen. Pp. xvi + 527. New Haven-London: Yale University Press, 1993. £35· 0 300 05416 5

    Article • The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, July 1994, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  32. Wild Majesty: Ecounters with Caribs from Columbus to the Present Day--An Anthology.

    Article • Man, March 1994, JSTOR

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  33. Barocco e Puritani. Studi sulla storia del seicento in Italia, Spagna e New England. By Giorgio Spini. Pp. 438. Florence: Vallecchi, 1991. L.58,000

    Article • The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, October 1993, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  34. New worlds and renaissance ethnology1

    Article • History and Anthropology, January 1993, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  35. Anti-Jewish Mentalities in Early Modern Europe. By Yardeni Myriam. (Studies in Judaism.) Pp. xv + 297. Lanham–New York–London: University Press of America, 1990. $34.50. 0 8191 7559 5.

    Article • The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, April 1992, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  36. Hugo Grotius's Dissertation on the Origin of the American Peoples and the Use of Comparative Methods

    Article • Journal of the History of Ideas, April 1991, JSTOR

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  37. Epilogue

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  38. Travel writing and ethnography

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  39. Preface

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  40. Appendix

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  41. Bibliography

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  42. Marco Polo's India and the Latin Christian tradition

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  43. Establishing lay science: the merchant and the humanist

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  44. A note on spelling and vocabulary

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  45. The Portuguese and Vijayanagara: politics, religion and classication

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  46. The practice of ethnography: Indian customs and castes

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  47. The social and political order: Vijayanagara decoded

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  48. The historical dimension: from native traditions to European orientalism

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  49. Conclusion: Before Orientalism

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  50. In Search of India: the empire of Vijayanagara through European eyes

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  51. Ludovico de Varthema: the curious traveller at the time of Vasco da Gama and Columbus

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  52. The missionary discovery of South Indian religion: opening the doors of idolatry

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES

  53. From humanism to scepticism: the independent traveller in the seventeenth century

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan-Pau RUBIES