The Jesuits II: Cultures, Sciences, And The Arts, 1540-1773

by O'Malley, John W.; Bailey, Gauvin Alexander; Harris, Stephen J.

• ISBN13: 9780802038616
• ISBN10: 0802038611
• Edition: DVD
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-23
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

Recent years have seen scholars in a wide range of disciplines re-evaluate the history of the Society of Jesus. In 1997, a group of scholars convened a major international conference to discuss the world of the Jesuits between 1540 and 1773 (the year of its suppression by papal edict). This meeting led to the creation of the first volume in this series, The Jesuits, which examined the worldwide Jesuit undertaking in such fields as music, art, architecture, devotional writing, mathematics, physics, astronomy, natural history, public performance, and education, with special attention to the Jesuits' interaction with non-European cultures. This second volume, following a second conference in 2002, continues in a similar path as its predecessor, complementing the regional coverage with contributions on the Flemish and Iberian provinces, on the missions in Japan, and in post-Suppression Russia and the United States. The performing arts, like theatre and music, are broadly treated, and, in addition to continued attention to painting and architecture, the volume contains essays on a range of objets d'art, including statuary, reliquaries, and alter pieces - as well as on gardens, mechanical clocks, and related automata. Other themes include finances, natural theology, censorship within the Jesuit order, and the Society's relationship to women. Perhaps most important, the volume gives particular attention to the eighteenth century, the 'age of disasters' for the Jesuits - the negative papal ruling on Chinese Rites, the destruction the of Paraguay Reductions, and the suppressions of the order that began in Portugal and that culminated in the general Suppression of 1773. With contributions from distinguished scholars from a dozen different countries, The Jesuits, IIcontinues in the illustrious tradition of its predecessor to make an important contribution to religious memory.

Author Biography

JOHN W. O'MALLEY, S.J., is professor in the Department of Church History at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. Gauvin Alexander Bailey is an associate Professor in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Clark University. Steven J. Harris is a professor at the Jesuit Institute, Boston College.

Table of Contents

Every tub on its own bottom : funding a Jesuit college in early modern Europe	p. 5
The Jesuits and the art of translation in early modern Europe	p. 24
Join the Jesuits, see the world : early modern women in Spain and the society of Jesus	p. 33
Between history and myth : the Monita secreta Societatis Jesu	p. 50
Revolutionary pedagogues? : how Jesuits used education to change society	p. 66
The Jesuit garden	p. 86
Jesuit uses of art in the province of Flanders	p. 113
Meditation, ministry, and visual rhetoric in Peter Paul Rubens's program for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp	p. 157
Art in the service of God : the impact of the society of Jesus on the decorative arts in Portugal	p. 182
Cultural convergence at the ends of the Earth : the unique art and architecture of the Jesuit missions to the Chiloe archipelago (1608-1767)	p. 211
The rural churches of the Jesuit Haciendas on the Southern Peruvian coast	p. 240
Suzhou prints and western perspective : the painting techniques of Jesuit artists at the Qing court, and dissemination of the contemporary court style of painting to mid-eighteenth-century Chinese society through woodblock prints	p. 262
Picturing Jesuit anti-Copernican consensus : astronomy and biblical exegesis in the engraved title-page of Clavius's Opera mathematica (1612)	p. 291
Jesuit influences on Galileo's science	p. 314
Utility, edification, and superstition : Jesuit censorship and Athanasius Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus	p. 336
Teaching mathematics in Jesuit schools : programs, course content, and classroom practices	p. 355
Entering dangerous ground : Jesuits teaching astrology and chiromancy in Lisbon	p. 371
Science and enlightenment in eighteenth-century Spain : the contribution of the Jesuits before and after the expulsion	p. 390
The reception of a theory : a provisional syllabus of Boscovich literature, 1746-1800	p. 405
'A certain indulgence' : music at the Jesuit College in Paris, 1575-1590	p. 454
Between stage and divine service : Jesuits and theatrical music	p. 479
Sung catechism and college opera : two musical genres in the Jesuit evangelization of colonial Chile	p. 498
The orator's performance : gesture, word, and image in theatre at the Collegio Romano	p. 512
The Jesuit stage and theatre in Milan during the eighteenth century	p. 530
'Lascivi Spettacoli' : Jesuits and theatre (from the underside)	p. 550
Grammar and virtue : the formulation of a cultural and missionary program by the Jesuits in early colonial Peru	p. 576
The problematic acquisition of indigenous languages : practices and contentions in missionary specialization in the Jesuit province of Peru (1568-1640)	p. 602
The uses of shamanism : evangelizing strategies and missionary models in seventeenth-century Brazil	p. 616
Jesuits, too : Jesuits, women catechists, and Jezebels in Christian-century Japan	p. 638
Clockwork and the Jesuit mission in China	p. 658
Between the rigorist hammer and the deist anvil : the fate of the Jesuits in eighteenth-century France	p. 682
The expulsion of the Jesuits and the treatment of Catholic representational objects during the French revolution	p. 691
The gang of four and the campaign against the Jesuits in eighteenth-century Brazil	p. 707
Twilight in the imperial city : the Jesuit mission in China, 1748-60	p. 725
Boscovich in the Balkans : a Jesuit perspective on orthodox Christianity in the age of enlightenment	p. 738
A Jesuit Beata at the time of the suppression in the viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata : Maria Antonia de Paz y Figueroa, 1730-1799	p. 758
The post-suppression society of Jesus in the United States and Russia : two unlikely settings	p. 772
Jesuit opera in seventeenth-century Vienna : Patientis Christi memoria by Johann Bernhard Staudt (1654-1712)	p. 787
Patientis Christi memoria : text	p. 793
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