Narratives of Adversity : : Jesuits on the Eastern Peripheries of the Habsburg Realms (1640–1773) / / Paul J. Shore.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• VerfasserIn: Shore, Paul J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (394 p.)

Addresses the experience of Jesuit missionaries, teachers and writers along the peripheries of the Habsburg lands, which stretched to Moldavia, Ukraine, Serbia and Wallachia, and which were continually torn with ethnic tensions. The time scale of the study is from the "high tide" of the Society (often labeled "the first multinational corporation") in the fourth decade of the seventeenth century, until its suppression in 1773 by Pope Clement XIV. The book examines several of the communities situated along the periphery and the records that they left behind about their interactions with the local populations. It constructs a vivid picture of Jesuit life on the frontier that is built up in mosaic fashion and livened by compelling anecdotes. The Jesuits of Royal Hungary exercised a baroque expression modeled after the larger western cities of the Habsburg lands, which was a fragile splendor in part defined by the need to defend Catholicism from the hostility of Orthodox, Lutherans, Calvinists, and others.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- PRELUDE -- INTRODUCTION A Fragile Splendor -- I Narratives of Adversity -- II Peripheries -- III “In Campos” -- IV Campaign in Prešov -- V Sex and Demons -- VI Detrimenta, damna… Prospera et Adversa -- VII Theatre and Suffering -- VIII Jesuits in Banská Bystrica, Kláštor pod Znievom, Sárospatak and Levoča -- IX In Pursuit of History -- X An Unredeemed Loss: The Jesuit Mission in Belgrade -- XI Trnava -- XII Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Register of Geographical Names