Title & Author:

The Jesuits : cultures, sciences, and the arts, 1540-1773 / edited by John W. O'Malley ... [et al.].

Publication:

Toronto ; London : University of Toronto Press, c1999.

Description:

xx, 772 p. : ill ; 24 cm.

Notes:
Papers from an international conference organized at Boston College in late May 1997.
Papers from international conference titled: The Jesuits : Culture, Learning, and the Arts, 1540-1773, held late May 1997 at Boston College.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The historiography of the Society of Jesus: where does it stand today? / John W. O'Malley -- 'Le style jésuite n'existe pas': Jesuit coporate culture and the visual arts / Gauvin Alexander Bailey -- The fertility and the shortcomings of Renaissance rhetoric: the Jesuit case / Marc Fumaroli -- The cultural field of Jesuit science / Rivka Feldhay -- Two Farnese cardinals and the question of Jesuit taste / Clare Robertson -- Jesuit thesis prints and the festive academic defence at the Collegio Romano / Louise Rice -- From 'The Eyes of All' to 'Useful Quarries in philosophy and good literature': consuming Jesuit science, 1600-1665 / Michael John Gorman -- Music history in the "Musurgia universalis" of Athanasius Kircher / Margaret Murata -- Mapping Jesuit science: the role of travel in the geography of knowledge / Steven J. Harris -- Jesuits, Jupiter's satellites, and the Académie Royale des Sciences / Florence Hsia -- "Exemplo aeque ut verbo": the French Jesuits' missionary world / Dominique Deslanders -- East and west: Jesuit art and artists in Central Europe, and Central European art in the Americas / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann -- The role of the Jesuits in the transfer of secular baroque culture to the Río de la Plata region / Magnus Mörner -- "Candide" and a boat / T. Frank Kennedy, S.J. -- Alessandro Valignano: the Jesuits and culture in the East / Andrew C. Ross -- Jesuit coporate culture as shaped by the Chinese / Nicolas Standaert, S.J. -- Translation as cultural reform: Jesuit scholastic psychology in the transformation of the Confucian discourse on human nature / Qiong Zhang -- Roberto de Nobili's "Dialogue on Eternal Life" and an early Jesuit evaluation of religion in South India / Francis X. Clooney, S.J. -- The Jesuits and the indigenous peoples of the Philippines / René B. Javellana, S.J. -- Bernini's image of the ideal Christian monarch / Irving Lavin -- Innovation and assimilation: the Jesuit contribution to architectural development in Portuguese India / David M. Kowal -- God's good taste: the Jesuit aesthetics of Juan Bautista Villalpando in the sixth and tenth centuries B.C.E. / Jaime Lara -- Jesuit Aristotelian education: the "De anima" commentaries / Alison Simmons -- Jesuit physics in eighteenth-century Germany: some important continuities / Stanislaw Obirek, S.J. -- The art of salvation in Bavaria / Jefferey Chipps Smith -- Henry Hawkins: a Jesuit writer and emblematist in Stuart England / Karl Josef Höltgen -- Jesuit casuistry or Jesuit spirituality? The roots of seventeenth-century British puritan pratical divinity / James F. Keenan, S.J. -- The use of magic by the Jesuits in the conversion of the indigenous peoples of Brazil / Paulo Castagna -- The Jesuits in Manila, 1581-1621: the role of music in rite, ritual, and spectacle / William J. Summers -- Jesuit devotion and "Retablos" in New Spain / Clara Bargellini.
Dust jacket.

ISBN:

0802042872
9780802042873

Subject:

Jesuits History 17th century.
Jesuits History 18th century.
Jesuits Histoire 16e siècle.
Jesuits Histoire 17e siècle.
Jesuits Histoire 18e siècle.
Jesuits History 16th century.
Jesuits.
Christianity and culture History 16th century Congresses.
Christianity and culture History 17th century Congresses.
Christianity and culture History 18th century Congresses.
Christianisme et civilisation Histoire 16e siècle Congrès.
Christianisme et civilisation Histoire 17e siècle Congrès.
Christianisme et civilisation Histoire 18e siècle Congrès.
Christianity and culture.
Christianity and culture History 16th century.
Christianity and culture History 17th century.
Christianity and culture History 18th century.

Form/genre:

Proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.

Added entries:

O'Malley, John W.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 207687
Call No.: BX3706.2 J47 1999
Status: Available