Jesuit polymath of Madrid : : the literary enterprise of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595-1658) / / by D. Scott Hendrickson.

• Superior document: Jesuit Studies : Modernity through the Prism of Jesuit History, Volume 4
• VerfasserIn: Hendrickson, D. Scott, 1970-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Jesuit studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; Volume 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (253 pages) :; illustrations.

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 neo-Platonic tradition, Nieremberg emerges here as a writer deeply indebted to the legacy of Ignatius Loyola and his Spiritual Exercises . Hendrickson convincingly shows how Nieremberg drew from his formation in the Jesuit order at the time of its first centenary to engage the cultural and intellectual currents of the Spanish Golden Age. As an author of some seventy-five works, which represent several genres and were translated throughout Europe and abroad, Nieremberg’s literary enterprise demands attention.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Juan Eusebio Nieremberg -- Catechetical Innovations -- Contemplating the Book of Nature -- The Spiritual Exercise of Reading -- Public Maladies and Prudent Reform -- Conclusion -- Bibliography of Works by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg -- Excerpts of Cited Decrees from the Council of Trent -- Bibliography -- Index.