Foreign Intruders

Robert Aleksander Maryks, Ph.D. (Fordham University, New York), is Professor of Early Modern History and Literature at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. He has published extensively on the history of the Jesuits, including the monographs Saint Cicero and the Jesuits(Ashgate, 2008) and The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews (Brill, 2010), as well as a dozen co-edited volumes. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Jesuit Studies and of several Jesuit-related series at Brill.Michał E. Nowakowski is a doctoral candidate at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. His research focuses on Catholic–Calvinist polemical literature, Jesuit political and social thought, and early modern diplomatic theory.

“Maryks and Nowakowski have produced a work that is both an archival resource and a warning. Religious fear rarely centers on theology. It focuses on identity, sovereignty, and the narratives communities create to protect themselves from imagined threats. As this book shows with impressive clarity, those narratives can endure through the centuries.” Massimo Introvigne, Center for Studies on New Religions. In: Bitter Winter, March 17, 2026.