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Title Exploring Jesuit distinctiveness : interdisciplinary perspectives on ways of proceeding within the Society of Jesus / edited by Robert Aleksander Maryks
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 326 pages)
Series Jesuit studies - modernity through the prism of Jesuit history, 2214-3289 ; volume 6
The Boston College International Symposia on Jesuit Studies ; volume 1
Jesuit studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 6.
Contents Preliminary Material / Robert Aleksander Maryks -- Introduction / Robert Aleksander Maryks -- Francesco Benci and the Origins of Jesuit Neo-Latin Epic / Paul Gwynne -- Exploring the Distinctiveness of Neo-Latin Jesuit Didactic Poetry in Naples: The Case of Nicolò Partenio Giannettasio / Claudia Schindler -- Civic Education on Stage: Civic Values and Virtues in the Jesuit Schools of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth / Jolanta Rzegocka -- "Ask the Jesuits to Send Verses from Rome": The Society's Networks and the European Dissemination of Devotional Music / Daniele V. Filippi -- Priestly Violence, Martyrdom, and Jesuits: The Case of Diego de Alfaro (Paraguay, 1639) / Andrew Redden -- Colonial Theodicy and the Jesuit Ascetic Ideal in José de Acosta's Works on Spanish America / Bryan Green -- Purple Silk and Black Cotton: Francisco Cabral and the Negotiation of Jesuit Attire in Japan (1570-73) / Linda Zampol D'Ortia -- Pedro de Ribadeneyra's Vida del P. Ignacio de Loyola (1583) and Literary Culture in Early Modern Spain / Rady Roldán-Figueroa -- The Distinctiveness of the Society of Jesus's Mission in Pedro de Ribadeneyra's Historia ecclesiastica del schisma del reyno de Inglaterra (1588) / Spencer J. Weinreich -- Discerning Skills: Psychological Insight at the Core of Jesuit Identity / Cristiano Casalini -- Distinctive Contours of Jesuit Enlightenment in France / Jeffrey D. Burson -- One Century of Science: The Jesuit Journal Brotéria (1902-2002) / Francisco Malta Romeiras and Henrique Leitão -- Bibliography / Robert Aleksander Maryks -- Index / Robert Aleksander Maryks
Summary The volume theme is the distinctiveness of Jesuits and their ministries. It explores the quidditas Jesuitica, or the specifically Jesuit way(s) of proceeding in which Jesuits and their colleagues operated from historical, geographical, social, and cultural perspectives. Thanks to generous support of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College, this volume is available in Open Access.-- Provided by Publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes "Published for the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College."
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 08, 2016)
Subject Jesuits -- Congresses
SUBJECT Jesuits fast
Subject HISTORY -- General.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Maryks, Robert A., editor
Boston College. Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, sponsoring body.
LC no. 2016008264
ISBN 9789004313354
9004313354