Narratives of Adversity: Jesuits on the Eastern Peripheries of the Habsburg Realms (1640-1773) Contributor(s): Shore, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 6155053472 ISBN-13: 9786155053474 Publisher: Central European University Press OUR PRICE: $95.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - Religion | Institutions & Organizations - Religion | Education |
Dewey: 271.530 |
LCCN: 2011049973 |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.55 lbs) 394 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
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Publisher Description: 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. |