ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTRIBUTORS
PREFACE
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION JOHN W. O’MALLEY, S . J.
PART ONE
The Society in Society
1 / Every Tub on Its Own Bottom: Funding a Jesuit College in Early Modern Europe
OLWEN HUFTON
2 / The Jesuits and the Art of Translation in Early Modern Europe
PETER BURKE
3 / Join the Jesuits, See the World: Early Modern Women in Spain and the Society of Jesus
ELIZABETH RHODES
4 / Between History and Myth: The Monita secreta Societatis Jesu
SABINA PAVONE
5 / Revolutionary Pedagogues? How Jesuits Used Education to Change Society
JUDI LOACH
6 / The Jesuit Garden
PETER DAVIDSON
PART TWO
The Visual Arts and the Arts of Persuasion
7 / Jesuit Uses of Art in the Province of Flanders
JEFFREY MULLER
8 / Meditation, Ministry, and Visual Rhetoric in Peter Paul Rubens’s Program for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp
ANNA C. KNAP
9 / Art in the Service of God: The Impact of the Society of Jesus on the Decorative Arts in Portugal
NUNO VASSALLO E SILVA
10 / Cultural Convergence at the Ends of the Earth: The Unique Art and Architecture of the Jesuit Missions to the Chiloé Archipelago (1608–1767)
GAUVIN ALEXANDER BAILEY
11 / The Rural Churches of the Jesuit Haciendas on the Southern Peruvian Coast
HUMBERTO RODRÍGUEZ-CAMILLONI
12 / 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
HIROMITSU KOBAYASHI
PART THREE
Scientific Knowledge, the Order of Nature, and Natural Theology
13 / Picturing Jesuit Anti-Copernican Consensus: Astronomy and Biblical Exegesis in the Engraved Title-Page of Clavius’s Opera mathematica (1612)
VOLKER R. REMMERT
14 / Jesuit Influences on Galileo’s Science
WILLIAM A. WALLACE, O.P.
15 / Utility, Edification, and Superstition: Jesuit Censorship and Athanasius Kircher’s Oedipus Aegyptiacus
DANIEL STOLZENBERG
16 / Teaching Mathematics in Jesuit Schools: Programs, Course Content, and Classroom Practices
ANTONELLA ROMANO
17 / Entering Dangerous Ground: Jesuits Teaching Astrology and Chiromancy in Lisbon
HENRIQUE LEITÃO
18 / Science and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Spain: The Contribution of the Jesuits before and after the Expulsion
VÍCTOR NAVARRO BROTÓNS
19 / The Reception of a Theory: A Provisional Syllabus of Boscovich Literature, 1746–1800
UGO BALDINI
PART FOUR
Music, Theatre, and the Uses of Performance
20 / ‘A Certain Indulgence’: Music at the Jesuit College in Paris, 1575–1590
DAVID CROOK
21 / Between Stage and Divine Service: Jesuits and Theatrical Music
FRANZ KÖRNDLE
22 / Sung Catechism and College Opera: Two Musical Genres in the Jesuit Evangelization of Colonial Chile
VÍCTOR RONDÓN
23 / The Orator’s Performance: Gesture, Word, and Image in Theatre at the Collegio Romano
BRUNA FILIPPI
24 / The Jesuit Stage and Theatre in Milan during the Eighteenth Century
GIOVANNA ZANLONGHI
25 / ‘Lascivi Spettacoli’: Jesuits and Theatre (from the Underside)
MICHAEL ZAMPELLI, S.J.
PART FIVE
The Overseas Missions: Challenges and Strategies
26 / Grammar and Virtue: The Formulation of a Cultural and Missionary Program by the Jesuits in Early Colonial Peru
SABINE MACCORMACK
27 / The Problematic Acquisition of Indigenous Languages: Practices and Contentions in Missionary Specialization in the Jesuit Province of Peru (1568–1640)
ALIOCHA MALDAVSKY
28 / The Uses of Shamanism: Evangelizing Strategies and Missionary Models in Seventeenth-Century Brazil
CHARLOTTE DE CASTELNAU-L’ESTOILE
29 / Jesuits, Too: Jesuits, Women Catechists, and Jezebels in Christian-Century Japan
HARUKO NAWATA WARD
30 / Clockwork and the Jesuit Mission in China
CATHERINE PAGANI
PART SIX
Expulsions, Suppressions, and the Surviving Remnant
31 / Between the Rigorist Hammer and the Deist Anvil: The Fate of the Jesuits in Eighteenth-Century France
MARC FUMAROLE
32 / The Expulsion of the Jesuits and the Treatment of Catholic Representational Objects during the French Revolution
RICHARD CLAY
33 / The Gang of Four and the Campaign against the Jesuits in Eighteenth-Century Brazil
DAURIL ALDEN
34 / Twilight in the Imperial City: The Jesuit Mission in China, 1748–60 725
RONNIE PO-CHIA HSIA
35 / Boscovich in the Balkans: A Jesuit Perspective on Orthodox Christianity in the Age of Enlightenment
LARRY WOLFF
36 / A Jesuit Beata at the Time of the Suppression in the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata: María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa, 1730–1799
ALICIA FRASCHINA
37 / The Post-Suppression Society of Jesus in the United States and Russia: Two Unlikely Settings
DANIEL L. SCHLAFLY, JR
APPENDIX
Jesuit Opera in Seventeenth-Century Vienna: Patientis Christi memoria by Johann Bernhard Staudt (1654–1712)
T. FRANK KENNEDY, S.J.
Patientis Christi memoria: Text
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