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The Jesuits : cultures, sciences, and the arts, 1540-1773

John W. O'Malley (Editor)
"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 have also looked at the Jesuits as emblematic of certain traits of early modern Europeans, especially as those Europeans interacted with 'the Other' in Asia and the Americas." "Originating in an international conference held at Boston College in 1997, the thirty-five essays here reflect this new historiographical trend."--Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, 1999
University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1999
Congress
xx, 772 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780802042873, 9781487520397, 9780802038616, 0802042872, 1487520395, 0802038611
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Acknowledgmentsix
Contributorsxi
Introductionxiii
Abbreviationsxvii
PART ONE Reframing Jesuit History1(130)
The Historiography of the Society of Jesus: Where Does It Stand Today?
3(35)
John W. O'Malley
`Le style jesuite n'existe pas': Jesuit Corporate Culture and the Visual Arts
38(52)
Gauvin Alexander Bailey
The Fertility and the Shortcomings of Renaissance Rhetoric: The Jesuit Case
90(17)
Marc Fumaroli
The Cultural Field of Jesuit Science
107(24)
Rivka Feldhay
PART TWO The Roman Scene131(78)
Two Farnese Cardinals and the Question of Jesuit Taste
134(14)
Clare Robertson
Jesuit Thesis Prints and the Festive Academic Defence at the Collegio Romano
148(22)
Louise Rice
From `The Eyes of All' to `Usefull Quarries in philosophy and good literature': Consuming Jesuit Science, 1600--1665
170(20)
Michael John Gorman
Music History in the Musurgia universalis of Athanasius Kircher
190(19)
Margaret Murata
PART THREE Mobility: Overseas Missions and the Circulation of Culture209(124)
Mapping Jesuit Science: The Role of Travel in the Geography of Knowledge
212(29)
Steven J. Harris
Jesuits, Jupiter's Satellites, and the Academie Royale des Sciences
241(17)
Florence Hsia
Exemplo aeque ut verbo: The French Jesuits' Missionary World
258(16)
Dominique Deslandres
East and West: Jesuit Art and Artists in Central Europe, and Central European Art in the Americas
274(31)
Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann
The Role of the Jesuits in the Transfer of Secular Baroque Culture to the Rio de la Plata Region
305(12)
Magnus Morner
Candide and a Boat
317(16)
T. Frank Kennedy
PART FOUR Encounters with the Other: Between Assimilation and Domination333(106)
Alessandro Valignano: The Jesuits and Culture in the East
336(16)
Andrew C. Ross
Jesuit Corporate Culture As Shaped by the Chinese
352(12)
Nicholas Standaert
Translation as Cultural Reform: Jesuit Scholastic Psychology in the Transformation of the Confucian Discourse on Human Nature
364(16)
Qiong Zhang
The Truth-Showing Mirror: Jesuit Catechism and the Arts in Mughal India
380(22)
Gauvin Alexander Bailey
Roberto de Nobili's Dialogue on Eternal Life and an Early Jesuit Evaluation of Religion in South India
402(16)
Francis X. Clooney
The Jesuits and the Indigenous Peoples of the Philippines
418(21)
Rene B. Javellana
PART FIVE Tradition, Innovation, Accommodation439(126)
Bernini's Image of the Ideal Christian Monarch
442(38)
Irving Lavin
Innovation and Assimilation: The Jesuit Contribution to Architectural Development in Portuguese India
480(25)
David M. Kowal
God's Good Taste: The Jesuit Aesthetics of Juan Bautista Villalpando in the Sixth and Tenth Centuries B.C.E.
505(17)
Jaime Lara
Jesuit Aristotelian Education: The De anima Commentaries
522(16)
Alison Simmons
Jesuit Physics in Eighteenth-Century Germany: Some Important Continuities
538(17)
Marcus Hellyer
The Jesuits and Polish Sarmatianism
555(10)
Stanislaw Obirek
PART SIX Conversion and Confirmation through Devotion and the Arts565(134)
The Art of Salvation in Bavaria
568(32)
Jeffrey Chipps Smith
Henry Hawkins: A Jesuit Writer and Emblematist in Stuart England
600(27)
Karl Josef Holtgen
Jesuit Casuistry or Jesuit Spirituality? The Roots of Seventeenth-Century British Puritan Practical Divinity
627(14)
James F. Keenan
The Use of Music by the Jesuits in the Conversion of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil
641(18)
Paulo Castagna
The Jesuits in Manila, 1581-1621: The Role of Music in Rite, Ritual, and Spectacle
659(21)
William J. Summers
Jesuit Devotions and Retablos in New Spain
680(19)
Clara Bargellini
PART SEVEN Reflections: What Have We Learned? Where Do We Go from Here?699(18)
Joseph Connors
700(7)
Luce Giard
707(6)
Michael J. Buckley
713(4)
Index717
Papers from an international conference organized at Boston College in late May 1997