Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Maps

Notes on Contributors

Chapter 1

Re-thinking Missionary Catholicism for the Early Modern Era

Alison Forrestal and Seán Alexander Smith

Investigating the Missionary Experience

Chapter 2

“Do not suppose that those tears proceed from weakness’’: Jesuit Weeping on Mission Frontiers, 1560–1760

Karin Vélez

A Jesuit Elicits Tears from Moxos Converts (Bolivia, 1753)

‘Wonderful Lamentation’: Slavic pilgrims (Italy, 1560s) and Guaraní converts (Paraguay, 1750)

‘At first I wept’: Distraught Jesuits (Canada, 1650s)

A Huron Convert Admonishes a Weeping Jesuit (Canada, 1640s)

Chapter 3

Female Voices and Agencies on the Canadian Missionary Frontier, according to Marie Guyart de l’Incarnation (1599–1672)

Dominique Deslandres

Marie de l’Incarnation: Life, Work, and Female Empowerment

Extending the Frontier

Female Agencies on the Frontier

Echos of Native Female Voices on the Missionary Frontier

Amerindian Resistance and the Limits of Frenchification

Chapter 4

“Virtue in the extreme is worth nothing”: Mortification and Mission in Madagascar, 1648–1674

Seán Alexander Smith

I Missionaries ... Must be Mortified

II Mortification on Mission: Theory and Practice

III Divided Missionaries: Causes and Consequences

Chapter 5

Not-So-Good Shepherds: Reluctant Jesuit Martyrs on the Seventeenth-Century Chilean Frontier

Andrew Redden

Martyrdom: A Missionary Blueprint?

Pragmatic Concerns

Personal Fears

Conclusion: Not-so-good-Shepherds and Providential Pragmatics

Chapter 6

Serving God and Caesar: Pierre-François Viguier’s Reconnaissance Mission to the Archipelago (1778–1779)

Andrew P. McCormick

‘The Political Context

Getting Started

The Proposed Seminary

Material Resources

Chapter 7

Catholic Missionary Activity in the Northern Balkans in the Seventeenth Century

Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin

The Religious and Political Geography of the Region

Roman Perspectives on the Balkans as Mission Territory

Resistance of the Bosnian Franciscans to Outside Missionary Activity

The Pastoral Encounter

Limitations of Roman-supported Missionary Activities

Conclusion

Chapter 8

Spiritual Legitimisation? Franciscan Competition over the Holy Land (1517–1700)

Megan C. Armstrong

An Observant Sacred History

A Contested Franciscan Frontier

Conclusion: A Franciscan Holy Land

Chapter 9

Mission Frontiers: A Reflection on Catholic Missions in the Early Modern World

Ronnie Po-chia Hsia

Martyrdom

Cultural Accommodation

Catholic Missions and the Early Modern State

Index

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