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Lorenzo Gambara's Caprarola and On Poetic Composition
Text, Translation and Commentary
Av Paul G. Gwynne, Patrick M. Owens
Inbunden, 2025
2228 kr
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In 1569, Lorenzo Gambara published a long verse description of the Farnese palace at Caprarola, which was dedicated to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. Twelve years later, this poem was thoroughly revised and considerably lengthened. In the meantime, the aged poet had repudiated the compositions of his …
Dialectic of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola
by Gaston Fessard S.J.
Av Gaston Fessard S.J., James Colbert m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1723 kr
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Gaston Fessard, S.J. (1897–1978), was a major mid-twentieth century French intellectual. He was a Hegel expert, but also wrote on issues of the day ranging from the Vichy regime to Christian-Marxist dialogue. The product of several decades of reflection, Fessard’s work on the Dialectic of the …
Saints or Devils Incarnate?
Studies in Jesuit History
Inbunden, 2013
3012 kr
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Almost from the moment the Jesuits were founded in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola and his companions they suffered from misunderstanding, some positive, much of it negative. Myth and misinformation abounded. The Society of Jesus, the Jesuits' official name, was a society of saints or of devils …
Archaeology of the Jesuit Missions in Ethiopia (1557–1632)
Av Victor M. Fernández, Jorge De Torres m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
3090 kr
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One of the earliest and most ambitious projects carried out by the Society of Jesus was the mission to the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia, which ran from 1557 to 1632. In about 1621, crucial figures in the Ethiopian Solomonid monarchy, including King Susenyos, were converted to Catholicism and up to …
Jesuit Foundations and Medici Power, 1532–1621
Inbunden, 2016
2687 kr
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Jesuit Foundations and Medici Power, 1532–1621 focuses on the cooperation between two new foundations, the last Medici state and the Society of Jesus, spanning nearly a century, concentrating on the Jesuit foundations in Florence, Siena, and Montepulciano. As the Medici built and centralized their …
Envoys of a Human God
The Jesuit Mission to Christian Ethiopia, 1557-1632
Av Andreu Martínez d'Alòs-Moner
Inbunden, 2015
3417 kr
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In Envoys of A Human God Andreu Martínez offers a comprehensive study of the religious mission led by the Society of Jesus in Christian Ethiopia. The mission to Ethiopia was one of the most challenging undertakings carried out by the Catholic Church in early modern times.The book examines the …
Jesuit Reading of Confucius
The First Complete Translation of the Lunyu (1687) Published in the West
Inbunden, 2015
3548 kr
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The very name of Confucius is a constant reminder that the “foremost sage” in China was first known in the West through Latin works. The most influential of these was the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (Confucius, the Philosopher of China), published in Paris in 1687. For more than two hundred …
Jesuit Polymath of Madrid
The Literary Enterprise of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595–1658)
Inbunden, 2015
2548 kr
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In Jesuit Polymath of Madrid D. Scott Hendrickson offers the first English-language account of the life and work of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595-1658), a leading intellectual in Spain during the turbulent decades of the mid-seventeenth century. Most remembered as a prominent ascetic in the …
Founding Father
John J. Wynne, S.J. and the Inculturation of American Catholicism in the Progressive Era
Inbunden, 2017
2588 kr
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In Founding Father, Michael F. Lombardo provides the first critical biography of John J. Wynne, S.J. (1859-1948). One of the most prominent American Catholic intellectuals of the early twentieth century, Wynne was founding editor of the Catholic Encyclopedia (1907) and the Jesuit periodical America …
Setting Off from Macau
Essays on Jesuit History during the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Av Kaijian Tang
Inbunden, 2015
3000 kr
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It is impossible to understand the early history of the Society of Jesus and the Catholic Church in China without understanding the preeminent role played by the island of Macau in the Jesuit missionary endeavor; indeed, it can even be said that Catholicism would not exist in China if there was no …
Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ways of Proceeding within the Society of Jesus
Inbunden, 2016
2700 kr
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The volume theme is the distinctiveness of Jesuits and their ministries that was discussed at the first International Symposium on Jesuit Studies held at Boston College’s Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies in June 2015. It explores the quidditas Jesuitica, or the specifically Jesuit way(s) of …
Pedro de Ribadeneyra’s 'Ecclesiastical History of the Schism of the Kingdom of England'
A Spanish Jesuit’s History of the English Reformation
Inbunden, 2017
4123 kr
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In 1588, the Spanish Jesuit Pedro de Ribadeneyra published a history of the English Reformation, which he continued to revise until his death in 1611. Spencer J. Weinreich’s translation is the first English edition of the History, one fully alive to its metamorphoses over two decades. Weinreich’s …
Changing Hearts
Performing Jesuit Emotions between Europe, Asia, and the Americas
Av Raphaële Garrod, Yasmin Haskell
Inbunden, 2019
2492 kr
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This volume of essays contributes to our understanding of the ways in which the Jesuits employed emotions to “change hearts”—that is, convert or reform—both in Europe and in the overseas missions. The early modern Society of Jesus excited and channeled emotion through sacred oratory, Latin poetry, …
Crossings and Dwellings
Restored Jesuits, Women Religious, American Experience, 1814-2014
Av Kyle B. Roberts, Stephen Schloesser, J.S.
Inbunden, 2017
3508 kr
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In Crossings and Dwellings, Kyle Roberts and Stephen Schloesser, S.J., bring together essays by eighteen scholars in one of the first volumes to explore the work and experiences of Jesuits and their women religious collaborators in North America over two centuries following the Jesuit …
Francesco Benci's Quinque Martyres
Introduction, Translation and Commentary
Inbunden, 2018
2687 kr
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In 1583, five Jesuit brothers set out with the intention of founding a new church and mission in India. Their dream was almost immediately, and brutally, terminated by local opposition. When their massacre was announced in Rome, it was treated as martyrdom. Francesco Benci, professor of rhetoric at …
Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas
Inbunden, 2018
2502 kr
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The present volume is a result of an international symposium on the encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas, which was organized by Boston College’s Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College in June 2017.In Asia, Protestants encountered a mixed Jesuit …
Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe
Av Per Pippin Aspaas, László Kontler
Inbunden, 2019
2948 kr
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The Viennese Jesuit court astronomer Maximilian Hell was a key figure in the eighteenth-century circulation of knowledge. He was already famous by the time of his celebrated 1769 expedition for the observation of the transit of Venus in northern Scandinavia. However, the 1773 suppression of his …
Jesuit Intellectual and Physical Exchange between England and Mainland Europe, c. 1580–1789
"The World is our House"?
Inbunden, 2018
2661 kr
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Jesuit Intellectual and Physical Exchange between England and Mainland Europe, c. 1580–1789: ‘The World is our House’? offers new perspectives on the English Mission of the Society of Jesus. It brings together an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars to explore the Mission’s role …
Jesuits and the Book of Nature
Science and Education in Modern Portugal
Inbunden, 2019
2158 kr
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Jesuits and the Book of Nature: Science and Education in Modern Portugal offers an account of the Jesuits’ contributions to science and education after the restoration of the Society of Jesus in Portugal in 1858. As well as promoting an education grounded on an “alliance between religion and …
Decoding the Stars: A Biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and Scientist
Inbunden, 2019
2764 kr
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Winner of the 2021 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize for Historical AstronomyIn Decoding the Stars, Ileana Chinnici offers an account of the life of the Jesuit scientist Angelo Secchi (1818-1878). In addition to providing an invaluable account of Secchi’s life and work—something that has been sorely …
With Eyes and Ears Open: The Role of Visitors in the Society of Jesus
Inbunden, 2019
2818 kr
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In With Eyes and Ears Open: The Role of Visitors in the Society of Jesus, twelve historians examine important visitations in the history of the Society. After a thorough investigation of the nature and role of the “visitor” in Jesuit rules and regulations, ten visitations of missions and …
Francisco Suárez (1548–1617)
Jesuits and the Complexities of Modernity
Av Robert Aleksander Maryks, Juan Antonio Senent de Frutos
Inbunden, 2019
3063 kr
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This is a bilingual edition of the selected peer-reviewed papers that were submitted for the International Symposium on Jesuit Studies on the thought of the Jesuit Francisco Suárez (1548–1617). The symposium was co-organized in Seville in 2018 by the Departamento de Humanidades y Filosofía at …
Jesuit Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix’s (1682–1761) Journal of a Voyage in North America
An Annotated Translation
Av Micah True
Inbunden, 2019
3458 kr
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The French Jesuit Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix’s 1744 journal of his voyage through French North America—New France, Louisiana, and the Caribbean—is among the richest eighteenth-century accounts of the continent’s colonization, as well as its indigenous inhabitants, flora, and fauna. Micah …
Mandate of Heaven
Strategy, Revolution, and the First European Translation of Sunzi’s Art of War (1772)
Av Adam Parr
Inbunden, 2019
2566 kr
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The Mandate of Heaven examines the first European version of Sunzi’s Art of War, which was translated from Chinese by Joseph Amiot, a French missionary in Beijing, and published in Paris in 1772. His work is presented in English for the first time. Amiot undertook this project following the …
Between Tradition and Innovation
Gregorio a San Vicente and the Flemish Jesuit Mathematics School
Inbunden, 2021
2774 kr
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In Between Tradition and Innovation, Ad Meskens traces the profound influence of a group of Flemish Jesuits on the course of mathematics in the seventeenth century. Using manuscript evidence, this book argues that one of the Flemish mathematics school’s professors, Gregorio a San Vicente …
Brief Introduction to the Study of Human Nature
Giulio Aleni
Av Thierry Meynard S.J., Dawei Pan
Inbunden, 2020
2818 kr
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Thierry Meynard and Dawei Pan offer a highly detailed annotated translation of one of the major works of Giulio Aleni (1582 Brescia–1649 Yanping), a Jesuit missionary in China. Referred to by his followers as “Confucius from the West”, Aleni made his presence felt in the early modern encounter …
Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Contexts, Sources, Reception
Inbunden, 2020
2818 kr
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In The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius Loyola: Contexts, Sources, Reception, Terence O’Reilly examines the historical, theological and literary contexts in which the Exercises took shape. The collected essays have as their common theme the early history of the Spiritual Exercises, and the …
Jesuit Superior General Luis Martín García and His Memorias
“Showing Up”
Av David G. Schultenover, S.J.
Inbunden, 2021
4610 kr
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Fr. Luis Martín García was superior general of the Society of Jesus during one of the most fractious periods in western history, from 1892 to his death in 1906. Fortunately for both the church and his order, he was endowed with remarkable gifts of mind and spirit. He was also troubled with personal …
Japan on the Jesuit Stage
Transmissions, Receptions, and Regional Contexts
Av Haruka Oba, Akihiko Watanabe m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2201 kr
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Japan on the Jesuit Stage offers a comprehensive overview of the representations of Japan in early modern European Neo-Latin school theater. The chapters in the volume catalog and analyze representative plays which were produced in the hundreds all over Europe, from the Iberian Peninsula to …
Missionizing on the Edge
Religion and Power in the Jesuit Missions of Spanish Amazonia
Av Francismar Alex Lopes de Carvalho
Inbunden, 2022
2224 kr
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Established in 1638 in a vast Amazonian territory that today encompasses border areas of Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, the missions of Maynas were one of the Society of Jesus’s main enterprises in Spanish America. Jesuit writings provide a unique insight into the seventeenth- and …
