The Jesuits : : Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773 / / ed. by John W. O'Malley, Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Steven J. Harris, T. Frank Kennedy.
In recent years scholars in a range of disciplines have begun to re-evaluate the history of the Society of Jesus. Approaching the subject with new questions and methods, they have reconsidered the importance of the Society in many sectors, including those related to the sciences and the arts. They h...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- Part One. Refraining Jesuit History
- 1. The Historiography Of The Society Of Jesus: Where Does It Stand Today?
- 2. `Le style jésuite n'existe pas' Jesuit Corporate Culture and the Visual Arts
- 3. The Fertility and the Shortcomings of Renaissance Rhetoric: The Jesuit Case
- 4. The Cultural Field of Jesuit Science
- Part Two. The Roman Scene
- 5. Two Farnese Cardinals and the Question of Jesuit Taste
- 6. Jesuit Thesis Prints and the Festive Academic Defence at the Collegio Romano
- 7. From The Eyes of All' to 'Usefull Quarries in philosophy and good literature' Consuming Jesuit Science, 1600-1665
- 8. Music History in the Musurgia universalis of Athanasius Kircher
- Part Three. Mobility: Overseas Missions And The Circulation Of Culture
- 9. Mapping Jesuit Science: The Role of Travel in the Geography of Knowledge
- 10. Jesuits, Jupiter's Satellites, and the Academic Royale des Sciences
- 11. Exemplo aeque ut verbo: The French Jesuits' Missionary World
- 12. East and West: Jesuit Art and Artists in Central Europe, and Central European Art in the Americas
- 13. The Role of the Jesuits in the Transfer of Secular Baroque Culture to the Río de la Plata Region
- 14. Candide and a Boat
- Part Four. Encounters With The Other: Between Assimilation And Domination
- 15. Alessandro Valignano: The Jesuits And Culture In The East
- 16. Jesuit Corporate Culture As Shaped By The Chinese
- 17. Translation As Cultural Reform: Jesuit Scholastic Psychology In The Transformation Of The Confucian Discourse On Human Nature
- 18. The Truth-Showing Mirror: Jesuit Catechism And The Arts In Mughal India
- 19. Roberto De Nobili's Dialogue On Eternal Life And An Early Jesuit Evaluation Of Religion In South India
- 20. The Jesuits And The Indigenous Peoples Of The Philippines
- Part Five. Tradition, Innovation, Accommodation
- 21. Bernini's Image Of The Ideal Christian Monarch
- 22. Innovation And Assimilation: The Jesuit Contribution To Architectural Development In Portuguese India
- 23. God's Good Taste: The Jesuit Aesthetics Of Juan Bautista Villalpando In The Sixth And Tenth Centuries B.C.E.
- 24. Jesuit Aristotelian Education: The De Anima Commentaries
- 25. Jesuit Physics In Eighteenth-Century Germany: Some Important Continuities
- 26. The Jesuits And Polish Sarmatianism
- Part Six. Conversion And Confirmation Through Devotion And The Arts
- 27. The Art Of Salvation In Bavaria
- 28. Henry Hawkins: A Jesuit Writer And Emblematist In Stuart England
- 29. Jesuit Casuistry Or Jesuit Spirituality? The Roots Of Seventeenth-Century British Puritan Practical Divinity
- 30. The Use Of Music By The Jesuits In The Conversion Of The Indigenous Peoples Of Brazil
- 31. The Jesuits In Manila, 1581-1621 The Role Of Music In Rite, Ritual, And Spectacle
- 32. Jesuit Devotions And Retablos In New Spain
- Part Seven. Reflections: What Have We Learned? Where Do We Go From Here?
- Joseph Connors
- Luce Giard
- Michael J. Buckley, S.J.
- Index