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
Between Identity and History: Giovanni Antonio Valtrino and His Vocazioni meravigliose alla Compagnia di Gesù Irene Gaddo Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.03 Introduction Giovanni Antonio Valtrino (1556–1601) began to assemble his Vocazioni meravigliose alla Compagnia (Marvelous vocations to the Society)[1] just after he entered
The Voices of Memoria: Diaria, Historiae, and Annuaria as Records of Experience in the Pre-suppression Society Paul Shore University of Regina Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.01 One or more underlying values or principles may lie behind many of the documents produced by the pre-suppression Society, the identification of which can aid us in understanding
The fourth International Symposium on Jesuit Studies was co-organized in Seville in 2018 by the Departamento de Humanidades y Filosofía at Universidad Loyola Andalucía and the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College. Its theme considered studied the work of Francisco Suárez and other Jesuits of his time in the context of diverse traditions
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A call for papers has been released for an international workshop to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Ming Qing Yanjiu journal. The workshop’s theme is “China in the 17th century. Trauma, Transition and Global Transformations.” Abstracts are due by April 25, and the workshop will take place on October 20 and 21. The University of Naples
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In 1551, Urbano Fernandes, the newly appointed rector of the scholasticate at Coimbra and the successor there of Simão Rodrigues, had proposed a number of questions having to do with the performance of his office. In this letter, Juan Alfonso de Polanco writes on Ignatius’s behalf and sends his understanding of Ignatius’s mind on the
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In 1554, the recently founded college in Salamanca included two priests and fourteen scholastics who were studying theology, but who were also zealously engaged in other works, such as visiting hospitals, preaching, and teaching catechism. Writing to Bartolomé Hernández, the new rector of the college there, Ignatius endorses his decision to have the Jesuit scholastics
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On October 15 and 16, the Université de Bretagne-Sud hosts a virtual conference examining missionaries of 16th to the 19th centuries. Hélène Vu Thanh, of the Université de Bretagne-Sud, is the conference organizer. “Empires connectés. Les missionnaires comme agents impériaux (XVIe-XIXe siècles)” [Connecting Empires. Missionaries as Agents of Empire, 16th-19th c.] features fourteen presentations over the two-day
