Early Modern Overseas Careers

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Central-Eastern Europeans as Jesuit Missionaries and VOC Employees

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Igor Iwo Chabrowski, Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska, University of Warsaw) Chabrowski, Igor Iwo (Assistant Professor, University of Warsaw) Krolikowska-Jedlinska, Natalia (Assistant Professor, Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska, Natalia Krolikowska-Jedlinska

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In the early modern period, two European networks, the Society of Jesus and the Dutch East India Company (VOC) spanned the globe and contributed to its multifaceted globalization. This book focuses on the members of the former, Jesuit missionaries, and the employees of the Dutch trading firm originating from Central and Eastern Europe. The well-chosen case studies examine the group characteristics, career influences, and narratives of these Central Eastern Europeans. They explore the question of why subjects of Polish kings, Transylvanian princes, or Habsburg emperors dreamed of venturing overseas with the colonial merchants or aspired to work as missionaries in China and Japan. The book examines the complexities of this early modern globalization: its scope, limits, importance, social, ethnic, and political ramifications. It researches how these networks reached out to the region of Central and Eastern Europe. The authors argue that the region was hardly considered peripheral from the perspective of Rome (and the Jesuits) or the Netherlands (and the colonial traders). They do, however, explore whether there were "glass ceilings," or limits of reach within the two networks for individuals from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Kingdom of Hungary.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-10-24
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGlobal Easts
Antal sidor246
FörlagCentral European University Press
ISBN9789633868829

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Igor Iwo Chabrowski is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw and a Part-time Professor at the Department of History and Civilization of the European University Institute. Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw. She has a background in Early Modern history and Ottoman studies, with a specific focus on the Early Modern Crimean Khanate and the Northern Caucasus.

AcknowledgementsIntroduction – Igor Iwo Chabrowski and Natalia Królikowska-JedlińskaPart I. Archives, Communication, and Identities Dutch East India Company (VOC): Foundation, Administration, Territories, and Archives – Rafał Szmytka Jesuit Strategy of Communication and Its Mirror: The Order’s Roman Archives – Robert DanielukPart II. Group Identities Polish-Lithuanian Jesuits Searching for a Missionary Field in the Orient, 1610–1723 – Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska Inhabitants of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the VOC, 1620–1700 – Rafał SzmytkaA Hungarian Employee of the VOC: The Adventures of András Jelky – Gábor Pusztai Jesuit Petitioners for the Indies from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Early Modern Period – Elisa Frei Part III. Experience of the Mission Jesuit Procurators, Traveling between China and Europe, and Dutch East India Employees during the Turbulent Period from the 1640s to the 1680s – Frederik Vermote A Jesuit among the Kalmyks: An Example of Proto-Ethnography by the Society of Jesus in the Eighteenth Century – Paul ShoreA Great Longing for India vs. the Reality of the Jesuits from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: The Case of Paulus Kostanecki – Monika Miazek-Męczyńska ContributorsIndex