Acknowledgments | | ix | |
Contributors | | xi | |
Introduction | | xiii | |
Abbreviations | | xvii | |
PART ONE Reframing Jesuit History | | 1 | (130) |
| The Historiography of the Society of Jesus: Where Does It Stand Today? |
| | 3 | (35) |
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| `Le style jesuite n'existe pas': Jesuit Corporate Culture and the Visual Arts |
| | 38 | (52) |
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| The Fertility and the Shortcomings of Renaissance Rhetoric: The Jesuit Case |
| | 90 | (17) |
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| The Cultural Field of Jesuit Science |
| | 107 | (24) |
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PART TWO The Roman Scene | | 131 | (78) |
| Two Farnese Cardinals and the Question of Jesuit Taste |
| | 134 | (14) |
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| Jesuit Thesis Prints and the Festive Academic Defence at the Collegio Romano |
| | 148 | (22) |
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| From `The Eyes of All' to `Usefull Quarries in philosophy and good literature': Consuming Jesuit Science, 1600--1665 |
| | 170 | (20) |
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| Music History in the Musurgia universalis of Athanasius Kircher |
| | 190 | (19) |
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PART THREE Mobility: Overseas Missions and the Circulation of Culture | | 209 | (124) |
| Mapping Jesuit Science: The Role of Travel in the Geography of Knowledge |
| | 212 | (29) |
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| Jesuits, Jupiter's Satellites, and the Academie Royale des Sciences |
| | 241 | (17) |
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| Exemplo aeque ut verbo: The French Jesuits' Missionary World |
| | 258 | (16) |
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| East and West: Jesuit Art and Artists in Central Europe, and Central European Art in the Americas |
| | 274 | (31) |
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| The Role of the Jesuits in the Transfer of Secular Baroque Culture to the Rio de la Plata Region |
| | 305 | (12) |
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| | 317 | (16) |
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PART FOUR Encounters with the Other: Between Assimilation and Domination | | 333 | (106) |
| Alessandro Valignano: The Jesuits and Culture in the East |
| | 336 | (16) |
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| Jesuit Corporate Culture As Shaped by the Chinese |
| | 352 | (12) |
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| Translation as Cultural Reform: Jesuit Scholastic Psychology in the Transformation of the Confucian Discourse on Human Nature |
| | 364 | (16) |
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| The Truth-Showing Mirror: Jesuit Catechism and the Arts in Mughal India |
| | 380 | (22) |
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| Roberto de Nobili's Dialogue on Eternal Life and an Early Jesuit Evaluation of Religion in South India |
| | 402 | (16) |
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| The Jesuits and the Indigenous Peoples of the Philippines |
| | 418 | (21) |
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PART FIVE Tradition, Innovation, Accommodation | | 439 | (126) |
| Bernini's Image of the Ideal Christian Monarch |
| | 442 | (38) |
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| Innovation and Assimilation: The Jesuit Contribution to Architectural Development in Portuguese India |
| | 480 | (25) |
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| God's Good Taste: The Jesuit Aesthetics of Juan Bautista Villalpando in the Sixth and Tenth Centuries B.C.E. |
| | 505 | (17) |
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| Jesuit Aristotelian Education: The De anima Commentaries |
| | 522 | (16) |
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| Jesuit Physics in Eighteenth-Century Germany: Some Important Continuities |
| | 538 | (17) |
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| The Jesuits and Polish Sarmatianism |
| | 555 | (10) |
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PART SIX Conversion and Confirmation through Devotion and the Arts | | 565 | (134) |
| The Art of Salvation in Bavaria |
| | 568 | (32) |
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| Henry Hawkins: A Jesuit Writer and Emblematist in Stuart England |
| | 600 | (27) |
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| Jesuit Casuistry or Jesuit Spirituality? The Roots of Seventeenth-Century British Puritan Practical Divinity |
| | 627 | (14) |
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| The Use of Music by the Jesuits in the Conversion of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil |
| | 641 | (18) |
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| The Jesuits in Manila, 1581-1621: The Role of Music in Rite, Ritual, and Spectacle |
| | 659 | (21) |
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| Jesuit Devotions and Retablos in New Spain |
| | 680 | (19) |
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PART SEVEN Reflections: What Have We Learned? Where Do We Go from Here? | | 699 | (18) |
| | 700 | (7) |
| | 707 | (6) |
| | 713 | (4) |
Index | | 717 | |