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Book SynopsisBorn in a provincial city in the Peruvian Andes, the Franciscan linguist and theologian Luis Geronimo de Ore (1554-1630) lived during a critical period in the formation of the modern world. In the first full-length biography of Ore, Noble David Cook and Alexandra Parma Cook reconstruct the friar’s life and the communities in which he circulated.
Trade ReviewA masterful history." - John Frederick Schwaller, author of
The History of the Catholic Church in Latin America: From Conquest to Revolution and Beyond"Noble David Cook and Alexandra Parma Cook's study is methodologically rigorous and meticulously comprehensive, the result of decades-long research of Oré's publications and reports, the social milieus in which they were produced, and the actions of the renowned figures with whom Oré interacted." - John Charles, author of
Allies at Odds: The Andean Church and Its Indigenous Agents, 1583-1671
