Early Modern Litterae Indipetae for the East Indies / / Elisa Frei.

• Superior document: Jesuit Studies ; Volume 40
• VerfasserIn: Frei, Elisa, 1982-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Brill,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Jesuit studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; Volume 40.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (174 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

"Jesuits usually joined the Society in their mid-teens, spent a decade receiving further education, and their first assignment was likely to be teaching and ministry in Europe. For many of them, however, the East Indies appealed more to their desire for novelty, danger, and martyrdom. This book considers thousands of Indipetae for the first time as a coherent and self-concluded work written by a scholar with a long-time experience with them. It demonstrates the importance of apparently secondary and less-used sources (like the generals' replies) in order to provide a more exhaustive picture of the Society of Jesus and its members' dreams and aspirations"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Litterae Indipetae -- 1.1 Purpose, Structure, and Instructions -- 1.1.1 How to Write Good litterae indipetae: Instructions from Above -- 1.2 A "Typical" Petitioner?: Health and Age -- 1.2.1 Linguistic and Scientific Skills -- 1.2.2 Virtue and Rhetoric -- 1.2.3 The Strategies of Temporal Coadjutors -- Conclusions -- 2 Desires: Push and Pull Factors -- Introduction -- 2.1 Pull Factors: Reading -- 2.1.1 Reading -- 2.1.2 "To Do and to Suffer" -- 2.1.3 Miracles and Signs -- 2.2 Push Factors: Reasons to Leave -- 2.2.1 Family Tensions -- 2.2.2 Distancing Oneself from Superiors and Other Jesuits -- Conclusions -- 3 The Petitioners' Network -- 3.1 Strategies to Be Chosen: Not Only Indipetae, but Also Hearings in Rome -- 3.1.1 Procurators of the East Indies -- 3.2 The Generals and Their Replies -- 3.2.1 Ignazio Maria Romeo (1676-1724?) -- 4 Case Studies: China and Japan -- 4.1 The Desire for the Far East -- 4.2 "Unsuccessful" Candidates -- 4.2.1 Carlo Sarti (1706-?) -- 4.2.2 Giovanni Berlendis (1664-1745) -- 4.3 "Successful" Candidates -- 4.3.1 Agostino Cappelli (1679-1715) -- 4.3.2 Ludovico Gonzaga (1673-1718) -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: Asian Preference in the indipetae from the Italian Assistancy (1687-1730) -- Appendix 2: Indipetae Sent from the Italian Assistancy (1687-1730) -- Appendix 3: Origin of the indipetae Written from the Italian Assistancy (1687-1730) -- Appendix 4: Indipetae from the Italian Assistancy according to the Jesuit Province (1687-1730) -- Conclusions -- Index of Names.