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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.
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PART ONE: Reframing Jesuit History
1 The Historiography of the Society of Jesus: Where Does It Stand Today?
2 'Le style jésuite n'existe pas': Jesuit Corporate Culture and the Visual Arts
3 The Fertility and the Shortcomings of Renaissance Rhetoric: The Jesuit Case
4 The Cultural Field of Jesuit Science
PART TWO: The Roman Scene
5 Two Farnese Cardinals and the Question of Jesuit Taste
6 Jesuit Thesis Prints and the Festive Academic Defence at the Collegio Romano
7 From 'The Eyes of All' to 'Usefull Quarries in philosophy and good literature': Consuming Jesuit Science, 1600–1665
8 Music History in the Musurgia universalis of Athanasius Kircher
PART THREE: Mobility: Overseas Missions and the Circulation of Culture
9 Mapping Jesuit Science: The Role of Travel in the Geography of Knowledge
10 Jesuits, Jupiter's Satellites, and the Académie Royale des Sciences
11 Exemplo aeque ut verbo: The French Jesuits' Missionary World
12 East and West: Jesuit Art and Artists in Central Europe, and Central European Art in the Americas
13 The Role of the Jesuits in the Transfer of Secular Baroque Culture to the Río de la Plata Region
PART FOUR: Encounters with the Other: Between Assimilation and Domination
15 Alessandro Valignano: The Jesuits and Culture in the East
16 Jesuit Corporate Culture As Shaped by the Chinese
17 Translation as Cultural Reform: Jesuit Scholastic Psychology in the Transformation of the Confucian Discourse on Human Nature
18 The Truth-Showing Mirror: Jesuit Catechism and the Arts in Mughal India
19 Roberto de Nobili's Dialogue on Eternal Life and an Early Jesuit Evaluation of Religion in South India
20 The Jesuits and the Indigenous Peoples of the Philippines
PART FIVE: Tradition, Innovation, Accommodation
21 Bernini's Image of the Ideal Christian Monarch
22 Innovation and Assimilation: The Jesuit Contribution to Architectural Development in Portuguese India
23 God's Good Taste: The Jesuit Aesthetics of Juan Bautista Villalpando in the Sixth and Tenth Centuries B.C.E.
24 Jesuit Aristotelian Education: The De anima Commentaries
25 Jesuit Physics in Eighteenth-Century Germany: Some Important Continuities
26 The Jesuits and Polish Sarmatianism
PART SIX: Conversion and Confirmation through Devotion and the Arts
27 The Art of Salvation in Bavaria
28 Henry Hawkins: A Jesuit Writer and Emblematist in Stuart England
29 Jesuit Casuistry or Jesuit Spirituality? The Roots of Seventeenth-Century British Puritan Practical Divinity
30 The Use of Music by the Jesuits in the Conversion of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil
31 The Jesuits in Manila, 1581–1621: The Role of Music in Rite, Ritual, and Spectacle
32 Jesuit Devotions and Retablos in New Spain
PART SEVEN: Reflections: What Have We Learned? Where Do We Go from Here?
The Jesuits
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