The Jesuits

Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773
Herausgeber: O'Malley, John W; Kennedy, T Frank; Harris, Steven J; Bailey, Gauvin Alexander

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Produktbeschreibung

An astounding history of the accomplishments of the Society of Jesus, from painting and poetry to cartography and physics, from Europe to New France to China.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 74th edition
• Seitenzahl: 872
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Dezember 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 161mm x 50mm
• Gewicht: 1442g
• ISBN-13: 9780802042873
• ISBN-10: 0802042872
• Artikelnr.: 21044629

Autorenporträt

Edited by John W. O’Malley, S.J., Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Steven J. Harris, and T. Frank Kennedy, S.J.

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTRIBUTORS
INTRODUCTION
ABBREVIATIONS
PART ONE
Refraining Jesuit History 1
1 / The Historiography of the Society of Jesus: Where Does It Stand Today?
JOHN W. O'MALLEY, S.J.
2 / 'Le style jésuite n'existe pas': Jesuit Corporate Culture and the
Visual Arts
GAUVIN ALEXANDER BAILEY
3 / The Fertility and the Shortcomings of Renaissance Rhetoric: The Jesuit
Case
MARC FUMAROLI
4 / The Cultural Field of Jesuit Science
RIVKA FELDHAY
PART TWO
The Roman Scene
5 / Two Farnese Cardinals and the Question of Jesuit Taste
CLARE ROBERTSON
6 / Jesuit Thesis Prints and the Festive Academic Defence at the Collegio
Romano
LOUISE RICE
7 / From The Eyes of All' to 'Usefull Quarries in phihlosophy and good
literature': Consuming Jesuit Science, 1600-1665
MICHAEL JOHN GORMAN
8 / Music History in the Musurgia univer-salts of Athanasius Kircher
MARGARET MURATA
PART THREE
Mobility: Overseas Missions and the Circulation of Culture
9 / Mapping Jesuit Science: The Role of Travel in the Geography of
Knowledge
STEVEN J. HARRIS
10 / Jesuits, Jupiter's Satellites, and the Académie Royale des Sciences
FLORENCE HSIA
11 / Exemplo aeque ut verbo: The French Jesuits' Missionary World
DOMINIQUE DESLANDRES
12 / East and West: Jesuit Art and Artists in Central Europe, and Central
European Art in the Americas
THOMAS DACOSTA KAUFMANN
13 / The Role of the Jesuits in the Transfer of Secular Baroque Culture to
the Río de la Plata Region
MAGNUS MöRNER
14 / Candide and a Boat
T. FRANK KENNEDY, S.J.
PART FOUR
Encounters with the Other: Between Assimilation and Domination
15 / Alessandro Valignano: The Jesuits and Culture in the East
ANDREW C. ROSS
16 / Jesuit Corporate Culture As Shaped by the Chinese
NICOLAS STANDAERT, S.J.
17 /Translation as Cultural Reform: Jesuit Scholastic Psychology in the
Transformation of the Confucian Discourse on Human Nature
QIONG ZHANG
18 / The Truth-Showing Mirror: Jesuit Catechism and the Arts in Mughal
India
GAUVIN ALEXANDER BAILEY
19 / Roberto de Nobili's Dialogue on Eternal Life and an Early Jesuit
Evaluation of Religion in South India
FRANCIS X. CLOONEY, S.J.
20 / The Jesuits and the Indigenous Peoples of the Philippines
REN£ B. JAVELLANA, S.J.
PART FIVE
Tradition, Innovation, Accommodation
21 / Bernini's Image of the Ideal Christian Monarch
IRVING LAVIN
22 / Innovation and Assimilation: The Jesuit Contribution to Architectural
Development in Portuguese India
DAVID M. KOWAL
23 / God's Good Taste: The Jesuit Aesthetics of Juan Bautista Villalpando
in the Sixth and Tenth Centuries B.C.E.
JAIME LARA
24 / Jesuit Aristotelian Education: The De anima Commentaries
ALISON SIMMONS
25 / Jesuit Physics in Eighteenth-Century Germany: Some Important
Continuities
MARCUS HELLYER
26 / The Jesuits and Polish Sarmatianism
STANISLAW OBIREK, S.J.
PART SIX
Conversion and Confirmation through Devotion and the Arts
27 / The Art of Salvation in Bavaria
JEFFREY CHIPPS SMITH
28 / Henry Hawkins: A Jesuit Writer and Emblematist in Stuart England
KARL JOSEF HOLTGEN
29 / Jesuit Casuistry or Jesuit Spirituality? The Roots of
Seventeenth-Century British Puritan Practical Divinity
JAMES F. KEENAN, S.J.
30 / The Use of Music by the Jesuits in the Conversion of the Indigenous
Peoples of Brazil
PAULO CASTAGNA
31 /The Jesuits in Manila, 1581-1621: The Role of Music in Rite, Ritual,
and Spectacle
WILLIAM J. SUMMERS
32 / Jesuit Devotions and Retablos in New Spain
CLARA BARGELLINI
PART SEVEN
Reflections: What Have We Learned? Where Do We Go from Here?
JOSEPH CONNORS
LUCE GIARD
MICHAEL J. BUCKLEY, S.J.
INDEX