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Blaise Pascal and the Platonic Heart Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Mateusz Stróżyński
The article analyzes the concept of the heart in Blaise Pascal’s (1623–62) Pensées in the context of the Platonic tradition. Augustine (354–430) is described as the main author who mediated to Pascal Plotinus’s view of nous as the intuitive and integrative faculty, superior to discursive and conceptual reason, which can be, ultimately, identified with Pascal’s coeur. The heart in Pascal’s philosophy
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The French Leçons de Ténèbres and the Foundation of the Jansenist Music Criticism Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Thierry Favier
The spread of the Leçons de ténèbres in the French capital and later in large provincial cities contributed to the evolution of musical practices and the listeners’ sensibilities and favored the incorporation of religious music into secular musical calendars. This explains why, from the end of the seventeenth century, the genre has been the focus of criticism from clerics and lay people of different
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Jansenist Education and Racine’s Intertextuality in European Context: Can an Early Modern Translation of Andromaque Help Revisit an Old Concept? Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Michał Bajer
The article deals with the intertextual dimensions of Jean Racine’s tragedy Andromaque and its rendering by the seventeenth–century Polish translator Stanisław Morsztyn. The analysis is based on an old hypothesis concerning the link between Racine’s intertextual literary practice and his erudite education at the Petites écoles de Port-Royal. The translator, although he had not received Jansenist education
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Jesuits, Jansenists, and the Culture Wars Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Mateusz Stróżyński
This introductory article explores the relevance of studying the Jesuit-Jansenist conflict in early modern France against the broader background of modernity as such and its inherent problems with fragmentation, isolation, and polarization in all areas of culture. It begins with a reference to the particular use of the study of early modernity and its religious and sociopolitical problems by the two
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Les Leçons de Ténèbres: Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Holy Week in Louis xiv’s France Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Michael Thomas Asmus
The Tenebrae Lessons were important components of Holy Week in baroque France. While François Couperin’s (1668–1733) settings of the Tenebrae Lessons hold a significant place in both the repertoire and scholarly literature, Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s (1643–1704) voluminous settings of the Tenebrae Lessons deserve a place alongside those by Couperin. This article first outlines the liturgy of the Tenebrae
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Seneca, Corneille, and the Ghost of Jesuit Classicism Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Jaspreet Singh Boparai
The precise effects of Jesuit education can be difficult to discern in a given writer or artist. Little is known about Pierre Corneille’s (1605–84) humanist formation at the Jesuit college in Rouen; like his philosophical orientation, its nature must be extrapolated from scanty, equivocal evidence. This article traces Corneille’s reception of Seneca (c.4 bce–65 ce) in his early tragedy Médée and his
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Travels and Archives: A Conversation with Francisco de Borja Medina Rojas, S.J. Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Emanuele Colombo
This article presents an interview with Francisco de Borja Medina Rojas, S.J., a prominent historian of the Society of Jesus. Born in 1925, Borja Medina has made significant contributions to Jesuit historiography. In conversation with Emanuele Colombo, the interview explores his academic journey, major projects, and perspectives on the evolution of Jesuit historical studies.
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Curricular Conundrum: The Jesuit Ratio studiorum and Mary Ward’s Attempts to Balance Latin, Prayer, and Lace Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Laura Feitzinger Brown
The 1599 Jesuit Ratio Studiorum effectively organized its educational mission. Catholic Englishwoman Mary Ward (1585–1645) adapted the Ratio as she sought to build a new order for women based on the Jesuit rule and open Catholic schools for girls across Europe. Despite remarkable success, she faced increasing opposition from Jesuits and other leaders. Scholars have explored objections raised against
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Dressing Pope Francis: His Public Costume between Pontifical, Jesuit, and Franciscan Traditions Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Miles Pattenden
When Jorge Bergoglio became the first Jesuit to be elected as a successor to St. Peter, it created a novel problem in papal and Jesuit history: how would a Jesuit interpret the long-standing but ever-evolving traditions of pontifical dress? This article sets out how Francis’s public sartorial choices have developed as he has negotiated his twin roles within the church. It further considers the influence
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The Habit Does Make the Monk: Jesuit Dress in the Marianas Mission 1668–1700 Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Sandra Montón-Subías
This article explores some of the body modifications that occurred in the Mariana Islands during the initial decades of the Jesuit mission. It focuses on Jesuit vestments and the use of Indigenous CHamoru palm-weaving in a cultural background where the CHamoru dress code clashed with Jesuit mindsets. The article also analyzes the imposition of clothing on the CHamorus by the Jesuits and the imposition
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Inside Jesuit Classrooms: Students’ Notebooks from the Austrian Province of the Late Sixteenth Century Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Gábor Förköli
In the sphere of education, early modern Jesuit documents prescribed a large variety of didactical methods. As a result, Jesuit education was perceived as facilitating a dialogue between traditional Scholasticism and humanism or scientific progress. However, complaints from the first half-century of the order indicate that Jesuit schools fell short in terms of their compliance with prescriptive regulations
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Sacred Landscapes of Greater Syria: Joseph Besson’s 1660 Jesuit Perspective Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Mirela Altic
Joseph Besson’s 1660 account of Jesuit missions in Syria offers a rare glimpse into the region’s cultural landscape from the perspective of French Jesuits living among diverse communities of Jews, Christians (Greek-Orthodox and Catholic), and Muslims. Drawing on unpublished Jesuit relations from 1625 to 1659 and an unsigned map of Syria, this article explores Besson’s portrayal of Greater Syria, a
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Biblical Call and Classical Response: Intertextuality and Image-Text Relations in Henricus Engelgrave’s Sermon Books Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Lukas Reddemann
This paper aims to explore the unique structure and function of the emblems in Henricus Engelgrave’s (1610–70) sermon books (Lux evangelica, Caeleste pantheon, and Caelum empyreum). The emblems serve as introductions to sermons for Sundays and feast days of the liturgical year; they include two mottos: one biblical quotation and a quotation from classical Roman poetry. Based on a selection of exemplary
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The Emblematic Decoration of the Staircase at the Former Jesuit College of Győr in the Context of Jesuit Marian Iconography Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Ágnes Kusler
This article contextualizes the emblematic decoration of the main staircase at the Jesuit College in Győr, northwestern Hungary. Painted in 1697, this fresco cycle visualizes the prayer of Salve Regina. The staircase emblems were designed as a visual aid to the Jesuits who wished to meditate on the significance of the Virgin Mary. Earlier scholarship has connected the decorative scheme to Jesuit emblem
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Ménestrier on Emblems in the Context of “Erudite Images” and His Wider “Philosophy of Images” Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Judi Loach
This paper shows how Ménestrier’s theorizing on emblems developed from his practice as devisor of decorative schemes and festivals, as indeed did that of fellow Jesuits. It explains his concern for developing a theoretical framework (whereas fellow Jesuits usually published collections of emblems with little theory) in terms of the influence exerted by his Jesuit training in Aristotelian philosophy
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“Per aspera ad astra”: Starry Heavens and Sidereal Metamorphosis in Jesuit Emblematics Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Steffen Zierholz
This article sheds new light on a series of Jesuit emblems, from both spiritual and cosmological perspectives, in which stars and starlit night skies figure prominently. The starting point is Ignatius of Loyola’s preferred devotional exercise, as Pedro Ribadeneyra recounts: the contemplation of stars. Given Ignatius’s importance in this exercise, they are recurring motifs in Jesuit emblematics. Considering
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Ratio emblematum: Characteristic Features of the Jesuit Emblem Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Walter S. Melion
The introductory essay examines the principles of Jesuit emblematic usage, as codified by Antonio Possevino, S.J. (1533–1611) in his educational treatise Bibliotheca selecta de ratione studiorum of 1603 and developed by two of the Society’s key emblematists: Jan David, S.J. (1545–1613) in his Duodecim specula of 1610 and Herman Hugo, S.J. (1588–1629) in his Pia desideria of 1624. The essay concludes
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Trompe-l’oeil Mirrors of the Soul in Jan David, S.J.’s Duodecim specula (Twelve Mirrors) of 1610 Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Walter S. Melion
Jan David, S.J.’s Duodecim specula (Antwerp: Jan Moretus, 1610), an innovative emblematic treatise in twelve chapters, focuses on various kinds and degrees of specular image generated by the human soul. Each chapter responds to an opening imago, designed and engraved by Theodoor Galle, that illustrates the operations of the mirror in question. Three of the imagines, v. The Mirror of Others’ Eyes, viii
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Arsenals of Knowledge: Reconstructing the Contents and Purpose of the Lost Jesuit Libraries of Northern Mexico Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 César Manrique Figueroa
This article examines several libraries assembled by the Society of Jesus in their college and missions in Northern Mexico (in the present-day Mexican State of Chihuahua), where Jesuits have been a constant presence from the seventeenth century, interrupted only temporarily by the Society’s suppression. All their bibliographic collections were transferred, dispersed, or looted after the general expulsion
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Constructing a Saint’s Life between Rome and the Provinces: Jesuit Hagiographical Literature on Peter Canisius Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Markus Friedrich
There is general agreement about the Jesuits’ alertness to media, their crucial role in early modern printing, and their engagement in promoting the sanctity of some of their members through print publication. Despite several efforts to establish central control, most of the Society’s media production remained decentralized. Moreover, there was no pre-conceived publication strategy of hagiographical
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From the Cross to the Pyre: The Representation of the Martyrs of Japan in Jesuit Prints Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Hitomi Omata Rappo
The iconography of the martyrs of Japan is often linked to that of the Twenty-Six Martyrs of Nagasaki. This group of mostly Franciscans was crucified in 1597 and beatified in 1627, and also included three Jesuits. The Society of Jesus, however, did not emphasize these martyrs in their engravings and representations of the victims of their Japanese mission especially before their beatification. The
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Jesuit Attitudes Toward Printers and Printing in Early Modern Italy Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Lorenzo Mancini
The Society of Jesus engaged with the medium of print almost from its inception and, as in other fields, according to its own way of proceeding. This article studies two aspects of Jesuit engagement with print, using its Italian assistancy as a case study. In the first part, Jesuit attitudes towards printing technology—its dangers and opportunities—are examined, focusing especially on the relationship
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Jesuits and Astrology: Print versus Manuscript Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Luís Campos Ribeiro
Astrology played an important part in early modern European culture, as a fundamental part of both mathematical and astronomical traditions. During the same period, the Society of Jesus built their global educational enterprise, which included a proven expertise in mathematical and astronomical study. Although insufficiently acknowledged in Jesuit historiography, astrology formed an important part
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Jesuits and Print: the Polemical Example of John Hay Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Nina Lamal, Jan Machielsen
This introductory article employs the Scottish Jesuit John Hay as a starting point for a wider exploration of the relationship between Jesuits and print, the theme of this special issue. Hay demonstrates how important print could be to a Jesuit’s self-worth and identity. In this, as contemporary catalogs of Jesuit publications attest, he was not alone, but he was a controversial outlier. Hay’s superiors
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“To have a printer at hand”: Jesuits and the Dissemination of Printing in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth before 1620 Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Magdalena Komorowska
In the second half of the sixteenth century, the Jesuits considered the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth a missionary territory. This perception was linked to the exceptional writing and publishing activity. The Jesuits not only had about seven hundred editions of their writings published before 1620, they also established their own printing presses. This article identifies the main purposes of Jesuit
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The 1769 Transit of Venus as a Springboard for Jesuit Ministries among the Learned Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Per Pippin Aspaas
This article examines how two Jesuit astronomers made use of a rare celestial phenomenon in attempts at winning the favor of intellectual and ruling élites outside of Catholic regions. The Heidelberg professor Christian Mayer (1719–83) went to Saint Petersburg, where he observed the transit of Venus in 1769 from the observatory of the prestigious Imperial Academy of Sciences. The imperial and royal
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Humility and Laziness: The Two Faces of the Poor in Paraguay’s Early Modern Jesuit Missions? Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Mickaël Orantin
Early modern European monarchies responded to structural poverty with a series of welfare programs while also implementing repressive measures against the poor. Perceived during the late Middle Ages as virtuous Christians accepting their fate with humility, the poor of the early modern period were accused of vagrancy and immoral laziness, thus posing a threat to the social order. In contrast, in the
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The Jesuit Community of the Lithuanian Province: Between Local Crises and Global Changes Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Andrea Mariani
The paper analyzes the community of the Lithuanian province of the Society of Jesus between 1608 and 1773. It adopts a prosopographical approach based on the full set of the order’s personnel catalogs for the Lithuanian and Masovian provinces, which have been analyzed by means of RStudio, an integrated development environment based on the R programming language. The author focuses on the total number
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Jesuit Konstantinas Širvydas (Konstanty Szyrwid) and the Origins of Lithuanian Linguistics and Homiletics Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Krystyna Rutkowska
Konstantinas Širvydas (Sirvydas, Szyrwid; c.1580–1631), a Jesuit of great merit to Lithuanian and Polish culture, little known outside his homeland, undertook and accomplished various important tasks that the Jesuits of the Lithuanian province set themselves from the very beginning of the establishment of the Vilnius Academy. Among them was the publication of the first Polish–Latin–Lithuanian dictionary
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Long Middle Ages and Shamanism in Colonial Spanish America: The Case of the Toad kururu in the Jesuit Guaraní Missions Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Thomas Brignon
Throughout colonial Spanish America, the missionaries recreated a moralized bestiary drawn from medieval referents and applied to the fauna of the New World. This was the case of the cane toad, kururu (Rhinella diptycha), which was assimilated with the European common toad (Bufo bufo) in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay. In this context, it was used to speed up Lent confessions, embody the Christian
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Murphy’s Law at Work: Climate Anomalies, Famine, and Mortality Crises on the Jesuit Missions among the Guaraní, 1733–40 Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Robert H. Jackson
The modern adage known as Murphy’s Law states that what can go wrong will go wrong, and could be applied to a series of unfortunate events that befell the Jesuit administered missions among the Guaraní in the years 1733 to 1740. Weather anomalies resulted in poor crops and food shortages, and at the same time, royal officials mobilized thousands of Guaraní mission militiamen. Many Guaraní fled the
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Spiritual Discourse in the Jesuit Missions: The Role of Nature in the Evangelization of Peru (Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries) Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Juan Dejo S.J.
The article explores how, notwithstanding their suspicions that the devil could take advantage of the animistic beliefs of Peru’s native inhabitants to consolidate idolatry, the Jesuit missionaries ultimately became more understanding of the spiritual Andean worldview. From St. Ignatius of Loyola’s postulate of “Contemplation to Obtain Love” in the Spiritual Exercises, by which God is acting and present
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Conspiracy Theory as a Vehicle for a Jesuit-Free Portugal under the Pombaline Government (1750–77) Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 José Eduardo Franco, Paula Carreira
During the reign of José I (1714–77), his prime minister, the marquis of Pombal paired an expansive program of Enlightenment reform with a dramatic anti-Jesuit policy whose impact extended far beyond Portugal. The Pombaline anti-Jesuit measures, accompanied by intensive international propaganda, were the end result of negative evaluations of the role played by the Jesuits in Portugal. A diabolical
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The Deceivers Deceived: How a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Anti-Jesuit Circle Duped a Jesuit Rector Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Sabina Pavone
In 1608, Antonio Barisone (1557/8–1623), rector of the Jesuit college at Ferrara, became ensnared in an elaborate deception designed to expose the unscrupulous methods by which Jesuits exploited vulnerable wealthy widows and enlarged the material wealth of their Society. Entering into a correspondence with a Venetian noblewoman who lamented the loss of her Jesuit confessor following the expulsion of
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Early Modern Variations on the Theme of Complicity: How Jesuits Came to Be Linked with Regicide Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Andrew McKenzie-McHarg
In the long history of anti-Jesuitism, the accusation that the Society of Jesus endorsed assassination and used it as a means to pursue its goals hardened into one of the recurring topoi that were repeatedly invoked to malign the order. However, the Society was clearly not born with this stigma. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how in the late sixteen and early seventeenth centuries an interplay
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“Idźcież już precz!” [Come on, get out already!]: The Origins and Development of the Earliest Anti-Jesuit Literature in the Commonwealth of Poland–Lithuania, 1577–1614 Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Robert Aleksander Maryks
This article is the first account in English of the origins and development of the earliest anti-Jesuit literature in the Commonwealth of Poland–Lithuania from the publication in 1577 of the first anti-Jesuit work, Jakub Niemojewski’s (c.1532–84) Diatribe abo kolacyja przyjacielska z ks. Jezuitami poznańskimi o przedniejsze różnice wiary krzescijańskiej (Diatribe or a friendly supper with Poznań Jesuit
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Jesuits, Conspiracies, and Conspiracy Theories Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Andrew McKenzie-McHarg
This introductory article explores the thematic affinity linking the Society of Jesus with conspiracies and conspiracy theories. After giving a short overview of the historiography devoted to anti-Jesuitism, it draws attention to how anti-Jesuits vilified the order over the centuries on the basis of alleged conspiracies whose extent varied from the episodic to the all-encompassing and that were imagined
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The Journal of Jesuit Studies: First Decade Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Arjan van Dijk
On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, this article looks back on the genesis and subsequent development of the Journal of Jesuit Studies, its conversion to open access, and the role of its founding editor, Robert Aleksander Maryks. It also highlights a number of other Brill resources in Jesuit Studies conceived and edited by Robert Maryks.
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“A picture is worth a thousand words”: Visual Media and the Anti-Jesuit Conspiracy Theory in the Age of Enlightenment Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Christine Vogel
In the context of news reporting about anti-Jesuit government actions and within the media landscape of eighteenth-century Europe, anti-Jesuitism began to posit a comprehensive superconspiracy and, in doing so, interweave religious and political aspects. Visual media played a decisive role in this process. Due to their high degree of intermediality and frequent recourse to allegory, printed news images
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“A sinister creature is on the loose”: Anti-Jesuit Conspiracy Allegations as Political and Poetological Strategies in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century in Tyrol Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Claus Oberhauser
The restoration of the Jesuits in Tyrol in 1838/39 shocked the region’s liberals and this shock found expression in the medium of poetry as exemplified by the polemical “Jesuitenlieder” (Jesuit songs) that circulated throughout Tyrol and southern Germany. A few years later a debate developed in German newspapers about the influence of the Jesuits in Tyrol. While older, but also more recent studies
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Familial Metaphors and Their Limits: The Dynamics of Correction in the Society of Jesus in the Seventeenth-Century Province of Aragon Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Patricia W. Manning
The Constitutions of the Society of Jesus employ familial metaphors to create emotional bonds between members and to create disciplinary responsibilities, both between fathers (superiors) and sons (rank and file members) as well as among brother Jesuits. Familial charity and love became the guiding principles for the order’s disciplinary procedures, which became routinized as the order grew. As evidenced
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“He may be a father to the soul that is a son to the body”: Robert Southwell (1561–95) and Divided Family Loyalties in the English and Catholic Reformations Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Robert Scully
While a great deal has been written about the Reformation(s), the effects of the momentous religious changes of this era on families, especially families divided by faith, is an understudied topic. This essay focuses on the Jesuit Robert Southwell (1561–95) and his pastoral and literary mission to England in the late sixteenth century. The central focus is Southwell’s letter to his father, who, unlike
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Introduction: Jesuits and the Idea of Family in Early Modern Europe Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Alison P. Weber
The Jesuit charism, which prioritized fealty to a voluntary family, invoked new ways of thinking about the duty, obedience, and love that Jesuits owed to the Society and to biological kin. The tension between family ties and the exigence for total emotional detachment from kin was subject to various degrees of accommodation. Nevertheless, the metaphor of the Society as family continued to exert a powerful
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Ordinary Holiness: A Converso Jesuit’s Biography of His Merchant Father Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Alison P. Weber
This essay examines a letter by Luis de la Palma (c.1559–1641), written on the occasion of his father’s death in 1595. I argue that although ostensibly a family letter, it was intended for a broader Jesuit audience. In addition to offering a paean to his father’s lay piety, de la Palma presents an exemplary model of family relations, one that demonstrates the consonance of the Jesuit exigence for detachment
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Sisters and Seroras: Basque Religious Women and the Early Jesuits Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Amanda L. Scott
Ignatius of Loyola’s so-called autobiography and later biographical accounts treat his last visit home in passing, as an unimportant stop on the way to Venice. However, when Ignatius returned to Azpeitia, Guipúzcoa in 1535, he sought out the company of seroras, or Basque devout laywomen. His choice to surround himself with like-minded companions on this last visit home mirrors similar efforts throughout
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From “Apostle of Japan” to “Apostle of All the Christian World”: The Iconography of St. Francis Xavier and the Global Catholic Church Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Rachel Miller
In the years leading up to Francis Xavier’s canonization, hagiographers emphasized the unprecedented nature of his mission to Asia by giving him various appellations that specifically identified the places where he had spread the Gospel during his ministry, such as “the first Apostle to Japan.” However, the 1623 canonization bull introduced new titles for Xavier, including the “Apostle of the Indies
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Robert A. Maryks and Jotham Parsons, eds., Patricia M. Ranum, trans., Étienne Pasquier, The Jesuits’ Catechism or Their Doctrine Examined (1602) Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Eric Nelson
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Kristine Steenbergh and Katherine Ibbett, eds., Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Feeling and Practice Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Mirosława Hanusiewicz-Lavallee
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Heather Graham and Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank, eds., Emotions, Art, and Christianity in the Transatlantic World, 1450–1800 Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Katie Barclay
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Guido van Meersbergen, Ethnography and Encounter: The Dutch and English in Seventeenth-Century South Asia Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Ines G. Županov
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Stefania Tutino, A Fake Saint and the True Church: The Story of a Forgery in Seventeenth-Century Naples Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Jennifer D. Selwyn
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In the Shadow of Francis Xavier: Martyrdom and Colonialism in the Jesuit Asian Missions Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Alejandro Cañeque
AbstractThis article focuses on the violent deaths of the Jesuit missionaries Rodolfo Acquaviva, Marcello Mastrilli, and Diego Luis de San Vítores, who were killed in the course of their evangelical endeavors in India, Japan, and the Mariana Islands, respectively. It elucidates the ways in which the figure of St. Francis Xavier intersected with the Jesuit ideal of martyrdom, while situating the three
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Through Daniello Bartoli’s Eyes: Francis Xavier in Asia (1653) Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Elisa Frei
AbstractThe first four (out of eight) books of Daniello Bartoli’s (1608–85) officially commissioned Istoria della Compagnia di Gesù, dedicated to Asia, were devoted to recounting the miraculous deeds of Francis Xavier (1506–52). A century after his death, and thirty years after his canonization, Xavier was still an influential role model for all the Jesuits (especially those who desired to become missionaries
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Illustrious Jesuits: The Martyrological Portrait Series circa 1600 Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Grace Harpster
AbstractBefore the Jesuits officially received their first saints, they capitalized on the power of the portrait series to promote their martyrs. The growing ranks of Jesuit martyrs, thought to number over a hundred in the early seventeenth century, allowed the order to participate in contemporary trends of serial portraiture as a means of legitimization. This article focuses on one crucial object
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Miracles in Writing: Obstetric Intercessions, Scribal Relics, and Jesuit News in the Early Modern Global Cult of Ignatius of Loyola Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Jonathan E. Greenwood
AbstractThe reputation of Ignatius of Loyola (c.1491–1556), the founder of the Society of Jesus, as a miracle-worker grew during the 1590s, which included his aid in childbirth through handwritten relics. This article examines obstetric miracles associated with Ignatius in the early modern world prior to his canonization in 1622. Through his letters and signature, Ignatius rescued women and their offspring
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Thinking with Jesuit Saints: The Canonization of Ignatius Loyola and Francis Xavier in Context Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Simon Ditchfield
AbstractThe significance of the two founder saints to the contribution made by Jesuit missionaries, many of whom became martyrs, to the making of Roman Catholicism as a world religion, was made explicit not at the canonization ceremony itself, nor in the celebratory processions made through the streets of Rome, but in events and decorations put up within spaces controlled by the Jesuits themselves
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Barbara A. Kaminska, Images of Miraculous Healing in the Early Modern Netherlands Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Jeffrey Chipps Smith
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Allegories of Light and Fire: Ignatian Effigies Painted on Copper Journal of Jesuit Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Steffen Zierholz
This article examines two small portraits of Ignatius of Loyola painted on copper between 1598 and 1622. Rather than focusing on the true likeness of the founder of the Jesuits, it sheds light on the neglected early history of the Ignatius-ignis pun, according to which his name is juxtaposed with the Latin word for fire. For this purpose, the article connects to the growing interest in the materiality