Loyola's Bees Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry

by Haskell, Yasmin Annabel

• ISBN13: 9780197262849
• ISBN10: 0197262848
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-20
• Publisher: British Academy

Summary

This is the first dedicated study of the classical-style, Latin didactic poetry produced by the Society of Jesus in the early modern period. The Jesuits were the most prolific composers of such poetry, teaching all manner of arts and sciences: meteorology and magnetism, raising chickens and children, the arts of sculpture and engraving, writing and conversation, the social and medicinal benefits of coffee and chocolate, the pious life and the urbane life. Dr. Haskell accounts for this investment in so secular a genre by considering the Society's educational and ideological values and practices. Extensive quotation from the poems reveals their literary qualities, compositional methods, and traditions. The poems also command scholarly attention for what they reveal about social, cultural, and intellectual life in this period.

Author Biography

Yasmin Haskell is Cassamarca Foundation Associate Professor in Latin Humanism, University of Western Australia (Perth).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	viii
Acknowledgements	ix
List of Abbreviations	xi
Introduction	1	(16)
Gentle Labour: Jesuit Georgic in the Age of Louis XIV	17	(53)
Marvellous Works: The Poetry of Wonder in Baroque Naples	70	(48)
Cultivating Science: French `Meteorological' Georgic	118	(60)
Breaking Ground: Scientific Poetry in Enlightenment Rome	178	(67)
Arts of Life: The Poetry of Inner and Outer Refinement	245	(66)
Conclusion	311	(18)
Appendices
1. Slavery in New World Jesuit Georgic	315	(6)
2. Poetic Sports at Louis-le-Grand	321	(8)
Bibliography	329	(14)
Index	343