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The Jesuitica Project — a collaborative initiative from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium) and the Jesuit Region of European Low Countries, the former provinces of the Netherlands and North Belgium (Flanders) — has launched a new version of its website: https://www.jesuitica.be/   The mission of the Jesuitica Project is to stimulate research into the […]

Additional past volumes of the Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu (AHSI) are now available in open access.   For more than 85 years, AHSI, a biannual, peer-reviewed journal, has published research articles on the history of the Society of Jesus along with book reviews, research notes, accounts of “living history,” and an annual bibliography. The most recent

Linda A. Newson has edited a new collection of essays entitled Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America, published by the University of London Press and the Institute of Latin American Studies. Thirteen scholars contribute to essays examining “the diversity of Jesuit contributions to Latin American culture,” from the diverse activities by the

The indipetae were letters written by Jesuits to their Superior General in application for the extra-European missions, usually called the “Indies.” In Latin, applying for the Indies was petere Indias; from this are derived the expressions indipetae (the letters) and indipeti (the applicants). After the Suppression (1773) and the Restoration (1814) of the Society of

  The indipetae were letters written by Jesuits to their Superior General in application for the extra-European missions, usually called the “Indies.” In Latin, applying for the Indies was petere Indias; from this are derived the expressions indipetae (the letters) and indipeti (the applicants). After the Suppression (1773) and the Restoration (1814) of the Society of Jesus, the tradition of writing these

  Conimbricenses.org facilitates the exploration of the unique educational influence of the Coimbra Jesuit Aristotelian instruction that stretched from Portugal to Asia and South America between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.   As the first digital project on the Coimbra Jesuit Aristotelian tradition, Conimbricenses.org publishes peer-reviewed encyclopedia entries and provides free, worldwide access to digitized