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
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 Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies hosted its fifth annual International Symposium on Jesuit Studies in June 2019 at Boston College. The theme for the event was “Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of Jesus.” The keynote address was delivered by Simon Ditchfield of York University. The program featured
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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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Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu has published a new collection of essays based from presentations first made at a conference on the restoration of the Society of Jesus. The thirty-seven essays in La Compagnie de Jésus des Anciens Régimes au monde contemporain span from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The volume is edited by Pierre-Antoine Fabre, Patrick Goujon, and Martín
The Macau Ricci Institute hosts a new MRI Public Forum led Thierry Meynard S.J., on “From Confucius to Zhu Xi: the adoption of Neo-Confucianism by the Jesuit François Noël in his Philosophia Sinica (1711)”. The lecture takes place on March 17, 18:30-20:00. According to the Macau Ricci Institute, Jesuits in China since the time of
The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco welcomes applications for its two fellowship programs in the summer of 2021. The application deadline for both programs is February 28. The institute’s three-month Doctoral Research Fellowships are open to scholars “who have completed all course work and have defined their specific
The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies has announced the hosts and themes for the Spring 2021 Jesuit Studies Cafés. The series of informal, remote discussions with the world’s preeminent scholars working on the history, spirituality, and educational heritage of the Society of Jesus presents unique opportunities to learn more about the newest and most interesting scholarship in
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