| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 260 pages) |
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Routledge Research in Early Modern History Series |
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Routledge Research in Early Modern History Series
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Jesuits, Rome and the pagan tradition -- Renaissance rhetoric -- Early Jesuits and Renaissance Rome -- 3. Language teaching in Jesuit schools -- The primacy of Latin -- Grammar classes in Jesuit schools -- Some challenges and solutions -- 4. Rhetoric in Jesuit education -- Renaissance education -- Jesuit education -- Manners, politeness and urbanitas -- Rhetorical education and the common good -- Education and democratisation |
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Christian virtues and civic values -- Liberal arts and virtue -- The college of Messina -- The college of Rome -- Learning the art of rhetoric -- Readings and syllabus -- 5. Jesuit Ciceronianism -- The question of imitatio -- The aim of rhetoric -- The epideictic and the Christian grand style -- Cicero at Jesuit schools -- Cypriano Soarez's De arte rhetorica (1562) -- Dialectic and rhetoric -- 6. The art of letter writing -- Jesuit instructions on letter writing -- Jean Voel's manual of letter writing -- The unity of the brotherhood -- 7. Jesuit rhetoric and civic life |
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Jesuit anti-Machiavellianism -- Jesuits, rhetoric and politics -- Virtue, nobility and the common good -- Rhetoric, prudence and adaptability -- Jesuits-seculars or regulars? -- The question of political participation -- 8. Jesuit education and rhetoric in global context -- Missionary work -- Jesuit overseas education -- Case studies: India, Mexico and Peru -- The deterioration of Ciceronian rhetoric -- 9. Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Archival material -- Printed sources -- Secondary literature -- Index |
| Summary |
This book explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Jesuit contributions to the rhetorical tradition established by Isocrates, Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian. It analyses the writings of those Jesuits who taught rhetoric at the College of Rome, including Pedro Juan Perpin̳a, (1530-66), Carlo Reggio (1539-1612), Francesco Benci (1542-94), Famiano Strada (1572-1649) and Tarquinio Galluzzi (1574-1649). Additionally, it discusses the rhetorical views of Jesuits who were not based in Rome, most notably Cypriano Soarez (1524-93), the author of the popular manual De arte rhetorica. Jesuit education, Ciceronianism and civic life feature as the key themes of the book. Early Jesuits and the Rhetorical Tradition, 1540-1650 argues that, in line with Cicero, early modern Jesuit teachers and humanists associated rhetoric with a civic function. Jesuit writings, not only on rhetoric, but also on moral, religious and political themes, testify to their thorough familiarity with Cicero's civic philosophy. Following Cicero, Isocrates and Renaissance humanists, early modern Jesuit teachers of the studia humanitatis coupled eloquence with wisdom and, in so doing, invested the rhetorician with such qualities and duties which many quattrocento humanists ascribed to an active citizen or statesman. These qualities centred on the duty to promote the common good by actively participating in civic life. This book will appeal to scholars and students alike interested in the history of the Jesuits, history of ideas and early modern history in general |
| Notes |
Jaska Kainulainen is a Docent at the University of Helsinki, specialising in history of ideas and the history of travel in early modern history. His recent publications include Paolo Sarpi: A Servant of God and State (2014) |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed January 23, 2024) |
| Subject |
Jesuits -- History.
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Rhetoric -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
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HISTORY / General
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003120124 |
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1003120121 |
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9781003855767 |
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1003855768 |
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9781003855729 |
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1003855725 |
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