Jesuits

John W. O'Malley, S.J., is professor in the Department of Church History at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology.Gauvin Alexander Bailey is an associate Professor in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Clark University.Steven J. Harris is a professor at the Jesuit Institute, Boston College.T. Frank Kennedy, S.J. is a professor in and chair of the Department of Music at Boston College.

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTSCONTRIBUTORSINTRODUCTIONABBREVIATIONSPART ONERefraining Jesuit History 1 1 / The Historiography of the Society of Jesus: Where Does It Stand Today?JOHN W. O'MALLEY, S.J.2 / 'Le style jésuite n'existe pas': Jesuit Corporate Culture and the Visual ArtsGAUVIN ALEXANDER BAILEY3 / The Fertility and the Shortcomings of Renaissance Rhetoric: The Jesuit CaseMARC FUMAROLI4 / The Cultural Field of Jesuit ScienceRIVKA FELDHAYPART TWOThe Roman Scene 5 / Two Farnese Cardinals and the Question of Jesuit TasteCLARE ROBERTSON6 / Jesuit Thesis Prints and the Festive Academic Defence at the Collegio RomanoLOUISE RICE7 / From The Eyes of All' to 'Usefull Quarries in phihlosophy and good literature': Consuming Jesuit Science, 1600-1665MICHAEL JOHN GORMAN8 / Music History in the Musurgia univer-salts of Athanasius KircherMARGARET MURATAPART THREEMobility: Overseas Missions and the Circulation of Culture9 / Mapping Jesuit Science: The Role of Travel in the Geography of KnowledgeSTEVEN J. HARRIS10 / Jesuits, Jupiter's Satellites, and the Académie Royale des SciencesFLORENCE HSIA11 / Exemplo aeque ut verbo: The French Jesuits' Missionary WorldDOMINIQUE DESLANDRES12 / East and West: Jesuit Art and Artists in Central Europe, and Central European Art in the AmericasTHOMAS DACOSTA KAUFMANN13 / The Role of the Jesuits in the Transfer of Secular Baroque Culture to the Río de la Plata RegionMAGNUS MöRNER14 / Candide and a BoatT. FRANK KENNEDY, S.J.PART FOUREncounters with the Other: Between Assimilation and Domination 15 / Alessandro Valignano: The Jesuits and Culture in the EastANDREW C. ROSS16 / Jesuit Corporate Culture As Shaped by the ChineseNICOLAS STANDAERT, S.J.17 /Translation as Cultural Reform: Jesuit Scholastic Psychology in the Transformation of the Confucian Discourse on Human NatureQIONG ZHANG18 / The Truth-Showing Mirror: Jesuit Catechism and the Arts in Mughal IndiaGAUVIN ALEXANDER BAILEY19 / Roberto de Nobili's Dialogue on Eternal Life and an Early Jesuit Evaluation of Religion in South IndiaFRANCIS X. CLOONEY, S.J.20 / The Jesuits and the Indigenous Peoples of the PhilippinesREN£ B. JAVELLANA, S.J.PART FIVETradition, Innovation, Accommodation 21 / Bernini's Image of the Ideal Christian MonarchIRVING LAVIN22 / Innovation and Assimilation: The Jesuit Contribution to Architectural Development in Portuguese IndiaDAVID M. KOWAL23 / God's Good Taste: The Jesuit Aesthetics of Juan Bautista Villalpando in the Sixth and Tenth Centuries B.C.E.JAIME LARA24 / Jesuit Aristotelian Education: The De anima CommentariesALISON SIMMONS25 / Jesuit Physics in Eighteenth-Century Germany: Some Important ContinuitiesMARCUS HELLYER26 / The Jesuits and Polish SarmatianismSTANISLAW OBIREK, S.J.PART SIXConversion and Confirmation through Devotion and the Arts27 / The Art of Salvation in BavariaJEFFREY CHIPPS SMITH28 / Henry Hawkins: A Jesuit Writer and Emblematist in Stuart EnglandKARL JOSEF HOLTGEN29 / Jesuit Casuistry or Jesuit Spirituality? The Roots of Seventeenth-Century British Puritan Practical DivinityJAMES F. KEENAN, S.J.30 / The Use of Music by the Jesuits in the Conversion of the Indigenous Peoples of BrazilPAULO CASTAGNA31 /The Jesuits in Manila, 1581-1621: The Role of Music in Rite, Ritual, and SpectacleWILLIAM J. SUMMERS32 / Jesuit Devotions and Retablos in New SpainCLARA BARGELLINIPART SEVENReflections: What Have We Learned? Where Do We Go from Here?JOSEPH CONNORSLUCE GIARDMICHAEL J. BUCKLEY, S.J.INDEX

‘A triumphalist volume – and a triumphant one.’- Alison Shell (Times Literary Supplement) ‘An important addition to the historiography of the Society of Jesus and the early modern world … Should be ignored only at a scholar’s risk.’- Michael W. Maher, S.J. (Catholic Historical Review) ‘The scope of the contributions is breathtaking.’- Thomas M. McCoog, S.J. (Journal of Ecclesiastical History) ‘Combines cutting-edge scholarship with traditional concerns … An excellent collection.’- Kathleen M. Comerford (Sixteenth Century Journal)