Introduction Nadine Amsler, Andreea Badea, Bernard Heyberger and Christian Windler ; Part I: Missionaries at Princely Courts; 1 Between Convent and Court Life: Missionaries in Isfahan and New Djulfa Christian Windler; 2 "The Habit that Hides the Monk": Missionary Fashion Strategies in Late Imperial Chinese Society and Court Culture Eugenio Menegon; 3 Between Mogor and Salsete: Rodolfo Acquaviva’s Error Ines G. ?upanov; Part II: Missionaries in Cities; 4 Urban Residences and Rural Missions: Patronage and Catholic Evangelization in Late Imperial China Ronnie Po-chia Hsia; 5 The Post-Tridentine Parish System in the Port City of Nagasaki Carla Tronu; 6 Conflicting Views: Catholic Missionaries in Ottoman Cities between Accommodation and Latinization Cesare Santus; Part III: Missionaries in the Countryside; 7 Funding the Mission: The Jesuits’ Economic Integration in the Japanese Countryside Helene Vu Thanh; 8 Trading Religious and Daily Goods: Franciscans in Semi-Rural Palestine (Seventeenth Century); Felicita Tramontana; 9 Rural Tibet in the Early Modern Missions Trent Pomplun; Part IV: Missionaries and Households; 10 Holy Households: Jesuits, Women and Domestic Catholicism in China Nadine Amsler; 11 Women, Households, and the Transformation of Christianity into the Kirishitan Religion; Haruko Nawata Ward; 12 Missionaries and Womena. Domestic Catholicism in the Middle East Bernard Heyberger; Afterword Nicolas Standaert ; Afterword Birgit Emich; Abbrevations; Bibliography; List of contributors; Index