The Jesuits : cultures, sciences, and the arts, 1540-1773

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c1999

Subject:

Jesuits - History - 16th century - Congresses
Jesuits - History - 17th century - Congresses
Jesuits - History - 18th century - Congresses
Christianity and culture - History - 16th century - Congresses
Christianity and culture - History - 17th century - Congresses
Christianity and culture - History - 18th century - Congresses

Contributor:

O'Malley, John W

ISBN:

9780802042873, 0802042872, and 0802042872 (bound) :

Description:

xx, 772 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Notes:

Papers from International conference titled: The Jesuits : Culture, Learning, and the Arts, 1540-1773, held late May 1997 at Boston College

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

The historiography of the Society of Jesus: where does it stand today? / John W. O'Malley -- 'Le style jésuite n'existe pas': Jesuit coporate culture and the visual arts / Gauvin Alexander Bailey -- The fertility and the shortcomings of Renaissance rhetoric: the Jesuit case / Marc Fumaroli -- The cultural field of Jesuit science / Rivka Feldhay -- Two Farnese cardinals and the question of Jesuit taste / Clare Robertson -- Jesuit thesis prints and the festive academic defence at the Collegio Romano / Louise Rice -- From 'The Eyes of All' to 'Useful Quarries in philosophy and good literature': consuming Jesuit science, 1600-1665 / Michael John Gorman -- Music history in the "Musurgia universalis" of Athanasius Kircher / Margaret Murata -- Mapping Jesuit science: the role of travel in the geography of knowledge / Steven J. Harris -- Jesuits, Jupiter's satellites, and the Académie Royale des Sciences / Florence Hsia -- "Exemplo aeque ut verbo": the French Jesuits' missionary world / Dominique Deslanders -- East and west: Jesuit art and artists in Central Europe, and Central European art in the Americas / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann -- The role of the Jesuits in the transfer of secular baroque culture to the Río de la Plata region / Magnus Mörner -- "Candide" and a boat / T. Frank Kennedy, S.J. -- Alessandro Valignano: the Jesuits and culture in the East / Andrew C. Ross -- Jesuit coporate culture as shaped by the Chinese / Nicolas Standaert, S.J. -- Translation as cultural reform: Jesuit scholastic psychology in the transformation of the Confucian discourse on human nature / Qiong Zhang -- Roberto de Nobili's "Dialogue on Eternal Life" and an early Jesuit evaluation of religion in South India / Francis X. Clooney, S.J. -- The Jesuits and the indigenous peoples of the Philippines / René B. Javellana, S.J. -- Bernini's image of the ideal Christian monarch / Irving Lavin -- Innovation and assimilation: the Jesuit contribution to architectural development in Portuguese India / David M. Kowal -- God's good taste: the Jesuit aesthetics of Juan Bautista Villalpando in the sixth and tenth centuries B.C.E. / Jaime Lara -- Jesuit Aristotelian education: the "De anima" commentaries / Alison Simmons -- Jesuit physics in eighteenth-century Germany: some important continuities / Stanislaw Obirek, S.J. -- The art of salvation in Bavaria / Jefferey Chipps Smith -- Henry Hawkins: a Jesuit writer and emblematist in Stuart England / Karl Josef Höltgen -- Jesuit casuistry or Jesuit spirituality? The roots of seventeenth-century British puritan pratical divinity / James F. Keenan, S.J. -- The use of magic by the Jesuits in the conversion of the indigenous peoples of Brazil / Paulo Castagna -- The Jesuits in Manila, 1581-1621: the role of music in rite, ritual, and spectacle / William J. Summers -- Jesuit devotion and "Retablos" in New Spain / Clara Bargellini.

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

BX3706.2 J468 1999

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