Mangeurs d'Homme Et Mangeurs d'Ame: Une Correspondance Missionnaire Au Xvie, La Lettre Jesuite Du Bresil, 1549-1568

Revealing the anthropological, spiritual, and political stakes of an exceptional epistolary corpus, this essay shows how the letters of Jesuit missionaries in Brazil became the consoling fiction of a new tropical church before inspiring other fictions in the historiography of the Order.