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- Narratives of Adversity: Jesuits on the Eastern Peripheries of the Habsburg Realms (1640–1773)
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- 2012
- Published by: Central European University Press
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Addresses the experience of Jesuit missionaries, teachers and writers along the peripheries of the Habsburg lands, which stretched to Moldavia, Ukraine, Serbia and Wallachia, and which were continually torn with ethnic tensions. The time scale of the study is from the "high tide" of the Society (often labeled "the first multinational corporation") in the fourth decade of the seventeenth century, until its suppression in 1773 by Pope Clement XIV.
The book examines several of the communities situated along the periphery and the records that they left behind about their interactions with the local populations. It constructs a vivid picture of Jesuit life on the frontier that is built up in mosaic fashion and livened by compelling anecdotes. The Jesuits of Royal Hungary exercised a baroque expression modeled after the larger western cities of the Habsburg lands, which was a fragile splendor in part defined by the need to defend Catholicism from the hostility of Orthodox, Lutherans, Calvinists, and others.
Table of Contents
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- Title page
- p. iii
- Copyright page
- pp. iv-vi
- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction: A Fragile Splendor
- pp. 7-16
- I Narratives of Adversity
- pp. 17-36
- II Peripheries
- pp. 37-64
- III “In Campos”
- pp. 65-92
- IV Campaign in Prešov
- pp. 93-110
- V Sex and Demons
- pp. 111-124
- VI Detrimenta, Damna…
- pp. 125-134
- VII Theatre and Suffering
- pp. 135-172
- IX In Pursuit of History
- pp. 211-242
- XII Conclusion
- pp. 281-312
- Bibliography
- pp. 313-362
- Register of geographical names
- pp. 379-384
- Back Cover
- p. bc
Additional Information
ISBN
9786155053481
Related ISBN(s)
9786155053474
MARC Record
OCLC
779166486
Pages
394
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No