The Forgotten Jesuits: The Society of Jesus in the Duchy of Modena; Between Archival Memory and New Research Trends David Salomoni Universidade de Lisboa Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.15 Introduction: The Global Goes Glocal In his recent work on pre-suppression Jesuit schools, Paul Grendler brings to light the impressive […]
Invisible Histories, Silenced Histories of the Philippines: The Labor evangélica: Ministerios apostólicos de los obreros de la Compañía de Jesús; Segunda parte (c.1701) by the Jesuit Diego de Oña (1655–1721) Alexandre Coello de la Rosa Universitat Pompeu Fabra Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.13 From the early years of his
A Spiritual Inheritance: Black Catholics in Southern Maryland Laura E. Masur The Catholic University of America Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.10 An old negro, the white-washer about St. Thomas’, told me a nice story of Father Hunter. One night, it was pitch dark, two young men came from Virginia
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From Tintype to Twitter: Photography at the Irish Jesuit Archives[1] Damien Burke Irish Archives of the Society of Jesus Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.09 Introduction Photographs are fragile objects: physically, they are easily torn, discolored, and mislaid; digitally, the advent of smartphones with the maelstrom of social media means
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Jesuit Libraries in the Old and the New Society of Jesus as a Historiographical Theme Noël Golvers KU Leuven Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.07 Beginning with the spread of Christianity in late antiquity, the clergy became one of the social groups that collected books—classical pre-Christian and Christian titles alike—not
A Jesuit Culture of Records?: The Society of Jesus, the Life Cycle of Administrative Documents, and the Late Medieval and Early Modern History of Bureaucratic Information Markus Friedrich Universität Hamburg Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.06 Prologue: A Broader Point This essay is part of a broader agenda. Together with
Giovambattista Noghera (1719–84): A Jesuit Looking Back at a Great Rhetorical Tradition Hanne Roer Københavns Universitet Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.04 Noghera: A Forgotten Apologist and Jesuit Humanist Although Giovambattista Noghera, S.J. was a professor of rhetoric and a prolific writer—his works were published in a posthumous collection of
Because of the continuing threat of the coronavirus and various health and safety restrictions, the 2020 International Symposium was originally delayed to June 2021 before being cancelled in its entirety. Below is the original program for the event as scheduled for June 2020. The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, together with its co-organizer Brotéria, is very
Edited by Ines G. Županov, The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits is now available in print. The 40 chapters were previously only available online. Bibliographical citations for the book and the chapters are included within the Jesuit Online Bibliography. By focusing on the Jesuits, “one of the first institutions with a truly ‘global’ reach, in practice
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From October 18–20, the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco and Mary’s Shrine in Ontario co-sponsored an international symposium entitled “Life and Death in the Missions of New France and East Asia: Narratives of Faith and Martyrdom.” The symposium began with remarks by Thomas Worcester, S.J., the president
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