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Art, Controversy, and the Jesuits: The Imago primi saeculi (1640). Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts Series, volume 12. Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's University Press, 2015. Pp. x + 771 + dvd. Hb, $120.
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In W. S. Melion and B. Ramakers (eds.), Personification. Embodying Meaning and Emotion, Leiden/Boston, Brill (Intersections, 41), 2016, p. 433-460
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the public defense of academic theses entailed the publication of a written presentation of aspirant’s conclusions. They were printed in the form of decorated broadsides posted at the entrance of college halls or of booklets distributed to the audience. During the seventeenth century, these paratextual devices developed into increasingly complex images filling the entire broadsheet. They were intended to praise the applicants’ protectors. From the start, academic broadsides were regularly populated with personifications of Science, the Liberal Arts, Virtues, Wisdom, War and Peace, etc., which served to highlight key individuals, their heraldry devices and the accompanying texts. This article examines how, in thesis prints produced in the Southern Low Countries, these figures simultaneously play a cognitive and a laudatory role.
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Jesuits of the early-modern period had, as a major aspect of their missions and ministry, encounters with prisoners and with those condemned to execution. The Jesuit experience of these encounters was profoundly influenced by the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, undertaken by every Jesuit. In these exercises the retreatant is required to visualise the physical sufferings of Christ. During the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Jesuits were closely connected, from several perspectives, with the imprisonment and execution of scores of individuals. While many of the leading Jesuit theoreticians of the time, such as Roberto Bellarmino, supported the right of the secular state to exercise capital punishment, a tension persisted between the idea of common humanity expounded in the Spiritual Exercises and the role of the Jesuits as supporters of the Habsburg dynasty that conducted these public executions. This essay explores the Jesuit encounter along the eastern and northern Habsburg peripheries and on the ‘frontiers of faith’ with prisoners and the condemned, utilising archival materials, as a contribution to the intellectual history of the Jesuits and to the cultural history of the region.
I want to take a tour through the ways that language, culture and religious practice has shaped and is shaped by the dialectic between a redeemed promised land and the open-ended uncertainties of exile. I hope that this can help deepen our appreciation of the complexities and opportunities of contemporary Jewish life both in the Diaspora and in the Land of Israel.
2017, Intersections
Personification: Embodying Meaning and Emotion, Intersections, edited by Walter Melion and Dr Bart Ramakers, Brill, 2016, 461-488.
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How can disorder produce meaning? “…[From] each arch hung an emblem, and from each pilaster an enigma below which there were various kinds of compositions, acrostics, Crosses, trees, altars, pyramids, scales, columns, circles, eagles, banners, temples, the names of JESUS, that contained all kinds of verses, written partly in gold, partly in vermilion” (1622). If any emblem epitomizes the expression and content of a Jesuit festival, then the disposition of emblems in the sets, and then in the festival pattern, reveals the functioning of the whole and suggests that the festival was not to be comprehended in a fragmentary manner. The sum of emblematic sets displayed in the space of the feast built the discourse and shaped the festival’s imago, while the relationship between these parts produced a dynamic and interactive spectacle for the actors and the public."
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The Pro theologia mystica clavis (1640) by the German Jesuit Maximilianus Sandaeus questions the tradition of the mystical language through an alphabetical exploration of the most current mystical concepts. In a long introduction, Sandaeus confronts the mystical language with other kinds of received elocutiones—the love language, the language of the Bible, or also the alchemical language—and tries to justify its apparent obscurity, which he links as well to the subject (who experiences a supernatural state), as to the object (God, the inutterable par excellence). The paper will explore the background and consequences of Sandaeus’s conception of mystical language, taking also into account his other writings about figurative uses of language.
2014, Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu vol. LXXXIV, fasc. 165 (2014)
Resumen En los últimos años del siglo XIX el padre Luis Martín promovió una renovación de la historiografía de la Compañía de Jesús mediante la publicación de nuevas obras historias sobre la misma y la edición de la Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu. Sin embargo, la producción historiográfica dentro de la Compañía tiene una tradición que se remonta a los primeros años de la misma. En este artículo nos concentraremos en un aspecto particular de la historiografía jesuítica: la construcción de enemigos político- religiosos. Analizaremos en particular ocho obras producidas en Iberoamerica entre mediados del siglo XVIII y comienzos del siglo XX e intentaremos rastrear los cambios y las continuidades en la forma en que los jesuitas elijen y caracterizan a sus enemigos en sus producciones histórico-literarias. Summary In the last years of the XIX century, Father Luis Martin promoted a renewal of the historiography of the Society of Jesus by requesting Jesuit historians to produce new historical works about the Society and also by publishing the Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu. However, the Society has a historiographical tradition that goes back to its earliest years. In this article we will focus on one particular aspect of the Jesuit historiography: the literary construction of religious and political enemies. We will analyze eight different Jesuit works from Iberoamerica ranging from the second half of the XVIII century to the first decade of the XX century, and try to chart the changes and the continuities in the way Jesuits singled out and portrayed their enemies in their literary and historical productions.
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica 2/Graecolatina Pragensia XXV, p. 135-156.
The study deals with Jesuit school dramas from Bohemian lands, whose protagonist is St . Francis Xavier . Four complete texts and thirteen plays preserved only in form of synopsis are analysed primarily from the point of view of most frequent motives, known also from biographies of Xavier and from fine arts . The analysis shows that in Xaverian plays from the Provincia Bohemia SJ appear both the themes and motives well known from the surviving production of other lands, and the adaptations less usual or unsupported . The synopses and texts therefore prove that many Jesuits were able to deal with the frequently treated theme such as the life of Francis Xavier, han- dled almost always in an exclusively allegorical way, newly and originally .
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2014, 10th International Conference. Society for Emblem Studies. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 27 July -1 August 2014. Mit dem begleitenden Workshop "Emblematische Strategien" / With the accompanying Workshop "Emblematic Strategies". Conference Reader, 2014
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