With contributions from distinguished scholars from a dozen different countries, The Jesuits, II continues in the illustrious tradition of its predecessor to make an important contribution to religious memory.
Authors
Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Steven J. Harris, John W. O'Malley, T. Frank Kennedy
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 271/.53
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- 22
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- Essays originally presented as papers at a conference held in 2002 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0802038611 9781442681552
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- BX3706.3
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- J48 2005eb
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 6
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 12
- CONTRIBUTORS 14
- PREFACE 18
- ABBREVIATIONS 22
- INTRODUCTION 24
- PART ONE: The Society in Society 38
- 1 Every Tub on Its Own Bottom: Funding a Jesuit College in Early Modern Europe 42
- 2 The Jesuits and the Art of Translation in Early Modern Europe 61
- 3 Join the Jesuits, See the World: Early Modern Women in Spain and the Society of Jesus 70
- 4 Between History and Myth: The Monita secreta Societatis Jesu 87
- 5 Revolutionary Pedagogues? How Jesuits Used Education to Change Society 103
- 6 The Jesuit Garden 123
- PART TWO: The Visual Arts and the Arts of Persuasion 146
- 7 Jesuit Uses of Art in the Province of Flanders 150
- 8 Meditation, Ministry, and Visual Rhetoric in Peter Paul Rubens’s Program for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp 194
- 9 Art in the Service of God: The Impact of the Society of Jesus on the Decorative Arts in Portugal 219
- 10 Cultural Convergence at the Ends of the Earth: The Unique Art and Architecture of the Jesuit Missions to the Chiloé Archipelago (1608–1767) 248
- 11 The Rural Churches of the Jesuit Haciendas on the Southern Peruvian Coast 277
- 12 Suzhou Prints and Western Perspective: The Painting Techniques of Jesuit Artists at the Qing Court, and Dissemination of the Contemporary Court Style of Painting to Mid-Eighteenth-Century Chinese Society through Woodblock Prints 299
- PART THREE: Scientific Knowledge, the Order of Nature, and Natural Theology 324
- 13 Picturing Jesuit Anti-Copernican Consensus: Astronomy and Biblical Exegesis in the Engraved Title-Page of Clavius’s Opera mathematica (1612) 328
- 14 Jesuit Influences on Galileo’s Science 351
- 15 Utility, Edification, and Superstition: Jesuit Censorship and Athanasius Kircher’s Oedipus Aegyptiacus 373
- 16 Teaching Mathematics in Jesuit Schools: Programs, Course Content, and Classroom Practices 392
- 17 Entering Dangerous Ground: Jesuits Teaching Astrology and Chiromancy in Lisbon 408
- 18 Science and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Spain: The Contribution of the Jesuits before and after the Expulsion 427
- 19 The Reception of a Theory: A Provisional Syllabus of Boscovich Literature, 1746–1800 442
- PART FOUR: Music, Theatre, and the Uses of Performance 488
- 20 ‘A Certain Indulgence’: Music at the Jesuit College in Paris, 1575–1590 491
- 21 Between Stage and Divine Service: Jesuits and Theatrical Music 516
- 22 Sung Catechism and College Opera: Two Musical Genres in the Jesuit Evangelization of Colonial Chile 535
- 23 The Orator’s Performance: Gesture, Word, and Image in Theatre at the Collegio Romano 549
- 24 The Jesuit Stage and Theatre in Milan during the Eighteenth Century 567
- 25 ‘Lascivi Spettacoli’: Jesuits and Theatre (from the Underside) 587
- PART FIVE: The Overseas Missions: Challenges and Strategies 610
- 26 Grammar and Virtue: The Formulation of a Cultural and Missionary Program by the Jesuits in Early Colonial Peru 613
- 27 The Problematic Acquisition of Indigenous Languages: Practices and Contentions in Missionary Specialization in the Jesuit Province of Peru (1568–1640) 639
- 28 The Uses of Shamanism: Evangelizing Strategies and Missionary Models in Seventeenth-Century Brazil 653
- 29 Jesuits, Too: Jesuits, Women Catechists, and Jezebels in Christian-Century Japan 675
- 30 Clockwork and the Jesuit Mission in China 695
- PART SIX: Expulsions, Suppressions, and the Surviving Remnant 716
- 31 Between the Rigorist Hammer and the Deist Anvil: The Fate of the Jesuits in Eighteenth-Century France 719
- 32 The Expulsion of the Jesuits and the Treatment of Catholic Representational Objects during the French Revolution 728
- 33 The Gang of Four and the Campaign against the Jesuits in Eighteenth-Century Brazil 744
- 34 Twilight in the Imperial City: The Jesuit Mission in China, 1748–60 762
- 35 Boscovich in the Balkans: A Jesuit Perspective on Orthodox Christianity in the Age of Enlightenment 775
- 36 A Jesuit Beata at the Time of the Suppression in the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata: María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa, 1730–1799 795
- 37 The Post-Suppression Society of Jesus in the United States and Russia: Two Unlikely Settings 809
- APPENDIX 822
- Jesuit Opera in Seventeenth-Century Vienna: Patientis Christi memoria by Johann Bernhard Staudt (1654–1712) 824
- Patientis Christi memoria: Text 830
- INDEX 840
- A 840
- B 847
- C 853
- D 866
- E 870
- F 874
- G 877
- H 881
- I 883
- J 887
- K 889
- L 891
- M 895
- N 903
- O 904
- P 906
- Q 914
- R 915
- S 919
- T 932
- U 936
- V 936
- W 939
- X 941
- Y 941
- Z 941
