The Jesuits II: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773

Published by University of Toronto Press 2005

The Jesuits II

Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773

Edited by: John W. O'Malley , Gauvin Alexander Bailey , Steven J. Harris and T. Frank Kennedy

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442681552

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

O'Malley John W. :

John W. O'Malley, S.J., is professor in the Department of Church History at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology.Bailey Gauvin Alexander :

Gauvin Alexander Bailey is an associate Professor in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Clark University.Harris Steven J. :

Steven J. Harris is a professor at the Jesuit Institute, Boston College.Kennedy T. Frank :

T. Frank Kennedy, S.J. is a professor in and chair of the Department of Music at Boston College.

Reviews

Kathleen M. Comerford:

‘Combines cutting-edge scholarship with traditional concerns … An excellent collection.’

Thomas M. McCoog, S.J.:

‘The scope of the contributions is breathtaking.’

Michael W. Maher, S.J.:

‘An important addition to the historiography of the Society of Jesus and the early modern world … Should be ignored only at a scholar’s risk.’

Alison Shell:

‘A triumphalist volume – and a triumphant one.’

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xxi
Introduction: The Pastoral, Social, Ecclesiastical, Civic, and Cultural Mission of the Society of Jesus Publicly Available Download PDF	xxiii
PART ONE. The Society in Society
1. Every Tub on Its Own Bottom: Funding a Jesuit College in Early Modern Europe Olwen Hufton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Jesuits and the Art of Translation in Early Modern Europe Peter Burke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
3. Join the Jesuits, See the World: Early Modern Women in Spain and the Society of Jesus Elizabeth Rhodes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
4. Between History and Myth: The Monita secreta Societatis Jesu Sabina Pavone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
5. Revolutionary Pedagogues? How Jesuits Used Education to Change Society Judi Loach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
6. The Jesuit Garden Peter Davidson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
PART TWO. The Visual Arts and the Arts of Persuasion
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
7. Jesuit Uses of Art in the Province of Flanders Jeffrey Muller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
8. Meditation, Ministry, and Visual Rhetoric in Peter Paul Rubens’s Program for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp Anna C. Knaap Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
9. Art in the Service of God: The Impact of the Society of Jesus on the Decorative Arts in Portugal Nuno Vassallo E Silva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
10. Cultural Convergence at the Ends of the Earth: The Unique Art and Architecture of the Jesuit Missions to the Chiloé Archipelago (1608–1767) Gauvin Alexander Bailey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
11. The Rural Churches of the Jesuit Haciendas on the Southern Peruvian Coast Humberto Rodríguez-Camilloni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
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 Hiromitsu Kobayashi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
PART THREE. Scientific Knowledge, the Order of Nature, and Natural Theology
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
13. Picturing Jesuit Anti-Copernican Consensus: Astronomy and Biblical Exegesis in the Engraved Title-Page of Clavius’s Opera mathematica (1612) Volker R. Remmert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
14. Jesuit Influences on Galileo’s Science William A. Wallace and O. P. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	314
15. Utility, Edification, and Superstition: Jesuit Censorship and Athanasius Kircher’s Oedipus Aegyptiacus Daniel Stolzenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	336
16. Teaching Mathematics in Jesuit Schools: Programs, Course Content, and Classroom Practices Antonella Romano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
17. Entering Dangerous Ground: Jesuits Teaching Astrology and Chiromancy in Lisbon Henrique Leitão Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
18. Science and Enlightenment in Eighteenth- Century Spain: The Contribution of the Jesuits before and after the Expulsion Víctor Navarro Brotóns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	390
19. The Reception of a Theory: A Provisional Syllabus of Boscovich Literature, 1746–1800 Ugo Baldini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
PART FOUR. Music, Theatre, and the Uses of Performance
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	451
20. ‘A Certain Indulgence’: Music at the Jesuit College in Paris, 1575–1590 David Crook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	454
21. Between Stage and Divine Service: Jesuits and Theatrical Music Franz Körndle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	479
22. Sung Catechism and College Opera: Two Musical Genres in the Jesuit Evangelization of Colonial Chile Víctor Rondón Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	498
23. The Orator’s Performance: Gesture, Word, and Image in Theatre at the Collegio Romano Bruna Filippi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	512
24. The Jesuit Stage and Theatre in Milan during the Eighteenth Century Giovanna Zanlonghi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	530
25. ‘Lascivi Spettacoli’: Jesuits and Theatre (from the Underside) Michael Zampelli and S. J. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	550
PART FIVE. The Overseas Missions: Challenges and Strategies
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	573
26. Grammar and Virtue: The Formulation of a Cultural and Missionary Program by the Jesuits in Early Colonial Peru Sabine Maccormack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	576
27. The Problematic Acquisition of Indigenous Languages: Practices and Contentions in Missionary Specialization in the Jesuit Province of Peru (1568–1640) Aliocha Maldavsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	602
28. The Uses of Shamanism: Evangelizing Strategies and Missionary Models in Seventeenth-Century Brazil Charlotte De Castelnau-L’Estoile Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	616
29. Jesuits, Too: Jesuits, Women Catechists, and Jezebels in Christian-Century Japan Haruko Nawata Ward Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	638
30. Clockwork and the Jesuit Mission in China Catherine Pagani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	658
PART SIX. Expulsions, Suppressions, and the Surviving Remnant
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	679
31. Between the Rigorist Hammer and the Deist Anvil: The Fate of the Jesuits in Eighteenth-Century France Marc Fumaroli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	682
32. The Expulsion of the Jesuits and the Treatment of Catholic Representational Objects during the French Revolution Richard Clay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	691
33. The Gang of Four and the Campaign against the Jesuits in Eighteenth-Century Brazil Dauril Alden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	707
34. Twilight in the Imperial City: The Jesuit Mission in China, 1748–60 Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	725
35. Boscovich in the Balkans: A Jesuit Perspective on Orthodox Christianity in the Age of Enlightenment Larry Wolff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	738
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 Alicia Fraschina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	758
37. The Post-Suppression Society of Jesus in the United States and Russia: Two Unlikely Settings Daniel L. Schlafly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	772
Appendix
Jesuit Opera in Seventeenth-Century Vienna: Patientis Christi memoria by Johann Bernhard Staudt (1654–1712) T. Frank Kennedy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	787
Patientis Christi memoria by Johann Bernhard Staudt, 21 April 1685: Text Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	793
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	803

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 800

eBook

Published: March 1, 2006
ISBN: 9781442681552