Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Víctor M. Fernández , Jorge de Torres , Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner and Carlos Cañete -- Introduction: The Fieldwork and the Team / Víctor M. Fernández -- The Infrastructure of the Mission: Convents, Palaces, and Temples / Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner -- The Mission Sites / Víctor M. Fernández , Jorge de Torres , Carlos Cañete and Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner -- The Politics of Domination in Missionary and Royal Architecture / Carlos Cañete and Jorge de Torres -- Conclusions / Victor M. Fernández -- Appendixes / Víctor M. Fernández , Jorge de Torres , Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner and Carlos Cañete -- Bibliography / Víctor M. Fernández , Jorge de Torres , Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner and Carlos Cañete -- Index / Víctor M. Fernández , Jorge de Torres , Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner and Carlos Cañete.

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One of the earliest and most ambitious projects carried out by the Society of Jesus was the mission to the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia, which ran from 1557 to 1632. In about 1621, crucial figures in the Ethiopian Solomonid monarchy, including King Susenyos, were converted to Catholicism and up to 1632 imposing missionary churches, residences, and royal structures were built. This book studies for the first time in a comprehensive manner the missionary architecture built by the joint work of Jesuit padres , Ethiopian and Indian masons, and royal Ethiopian patrons. The work gives ample archaeological, architectonic, and historical descriptions of the ten extant sites known to date and includes hypotheses on hitherto unexplored or lesser known structures.

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