ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTRIBUTORS
INTRODUCTION
ABBREVIATIONS
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
'The geographical and disciplinary scope of The Jesuits is breathtaking. The quality of individual contributions is high, while the volume as a whole is more than the sum of its parts. It maintains a delicate balance between unity and diversity, showing that Jesuit contributions to the arts and sciences have a style of their own without being monolithically uniform. This is a book which redefines its field. It will be a landmark in Jesuit studies as well as an important contribution to the history of early modern culture.' -- Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University 'Cultural historians have been, with few exceptions, slow to appreciate the many cultural roles played by the Society of Jesus from its foundation onwards. These spectacularly learned, lively and wide-ranging essays begin the job. They follow the Jesuits into realms as apparently diverse as prayer and philology and into places as distant from one another as Prague and Paraguay. They reveal some of the extraordinary fertile research currently under way on every aspect of the Jesuit enterprise, from its historical origins to its effects on European political and cultural expansion. And though they shed a particularly bright new light on the histories of science, art, and architecture, they leave few segments of the early modern encyclopedia of the arts untouched.' -- Anthony Grafton, Princeton University 'Beyond the appeal that this book would have to a reader interested in specific items of Jesuit history, it would also have a wider readership among those interested in and/or conversant with the history of Europe from the late Renaissance through the Baroque period and on into the Age of Reason, in fields as varied as politics, literature, science, art, religion, and society. I thought that I knew a fair amount about Jesuitica; yet however much I may know, I have learned from this book much that I had not previously known at all.' -- John W. Padberg, S.J., Director, Institute of Jesuit Sources, St. Louis, Missouri
John W. O'Malley, S.J., is professor in the Department of Church History at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology.
Gauvin Alexander Bailey is an associate Professor in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Clark University.
Steven J. Harris is a professor at the Jesuit Institute, Boston College.
T. Frank Kennedy, S.J. is a professor in and chair of the Department of Music at Boston College.
‘A triumphalist volume – and a triumphant one.’ - Alison Shell (Times Literary Supplement) ‘An important addition to the historiography of the Society of Jesus and the early modern world … Should be ignored only at a scholar’s risk.’ - Michael W. Maher, S.J. (Catholic Historical Review) ‘The scope of the contributions is breathtaking.’ - Thomas M. McCoog, S.J. (Journal of Ecclesiastical History) ‘Combines cutting-edge scholarship with traditional concerns … An excellent collection.’ - Kathleen M. Comerford (Sixteenth Century Journal)
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