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Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu has published the first volume of Kilian Stumpf’s The Acta Pekinensia or Historical Records of the Maillard de Tournon Legation. Edited by Paul Rule and Claudia von Collani, the book presents, for the first time in English, the account of the first years (December 1705-August 1706) of the visit to China […]

L’Istituto Confucio at the Università di Macerata hosts an important, three-day conference on new scholarship and perspectives on Matteo Ricci (1552–1610).   “New Perspectives in the Studies on Matteo Ricci” features presentations by 21 scholars from October 21-23, 2015. The event also includes a tour of Ricci’s historical landmarks in Macerata, the birthplace of the noted

Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits & Modern Rhetorical Studies is now available through Fordham University Press. Cinthia Gannett and John Brereton edit what the publisher describes as a “groundbreaking collection explores the important ways Jesuits have employed rhetoric, the ancient art of persuasion and the current art of communications, from the sixteenth century to the

John O’Malley’s Art, Controversy, and the Jesuits: The Imago Primi Saeculi, available through St. Joseph’s University Press. The Imago primi saeculi Societatis Iesu, a 952 folio-sized volume of poetry, prose with 127 exquisite copperplate engravings, celebrated the Society’s centenary in 1640. The publisher calls O’Malley’s text, “the most comprehensive study of the important book ever to

Brill’s Jesuit Studies book series features its fourth volume, Jesuit Polymath of Madrid: The Literary Enterprise of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595-1658) by D. Scott Hendrickson, SJ. The publisher notes: “In Jesuit Polymath of Madrid D. Scott Hendrickson offers the first English-language account of the life and work of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595-1658), a leading intellectual

Thierry Meynard’s The Jesuit Reading of Confucius: The First Complete Translations of the Lunyu (1687) Published in the West has been published as part of Brill’s Jesuit Studies book series. According to the publisher, “The very name of Confucius is a constant reminder that the ‘foremost sage’ in China was first known in the West

Claudio Ferlan, a researcher at the Bruno Kessler Foundation’s Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento, has published a one-volume history of the Jesuits, I gesuiti.   According to the publisher, il Mulino, Ferlan’s book “offers a detailed history of the Societas Jesu, chronicling its entire development, from the life and works of its founder, Ignatius of Loyola,

Loyola University Chicago holds “Crossings and Dwellings,” a research conference to commemorate the bicentennial of the Restoration of the Society of Jesus and the centennial of women’s education at Loyola University-Mundelein College. The program, organized by Stephen Schloesser, SJ, and Kyle Roberts, features an opening address by Carol Coburn of Avila University, remarks by John