1st Edition
Early Modern Jesuits between Obedience and Conscience during the Generalate of Claudio Acquaviva (1581-1615)
By Silvia Mostaccio
Copyright 2014
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Society of Jesus was founded by Ignatius Loyola on a principal of strict obedience to papal and superiors’ authorities, yet the nature of the Jesuits's work and the turbulent political circumstances in which they operated, inevitably brought them into conflict with the Catholic hierarchy. In order to better understand and contextualise the debates concerning obedience, this book examines the... Read more
Introduction Jesuit Obedience as the Theoretical Object of Cultural Narration under General Claudio Acquaviva (1581–1615); Chapter 1 Jesuit Political Thought and Pastoral Care between Power and Obedience: Texts and Contexts; Chapter 2 ‘Perinde ac si cadaver essent.’ The Jesuits from a Comparative Perspective: The Tension between Obedience and Representar in the Legal Documents of Religious Orders; Chapter 3 Hierarchies of Obedience in the Society of Jesus during the Pontificate of Sixtus V (1585–90); Chapter 4 A Gendered Obedience? The Spiritual Exercises by Jesuits and by Women: Two Case Studies and Their Context; conclusion Conclusion Contexts and Challenges for Jesuit Obedience Both Within and Outside the Society;
Biography
Silvia Mostaccio is Associate Professor of Early Modern History (16th-18th Centuries) at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium.
'the book will ... prove immensely useful in making the English-speaking academic public more familiar with Silvia Mostaccio's take on Jesuit and, more generally, early modern cultures of obedience.' Journal of Jesuit Studies '... provokes further thought and research. ... This book’s rich footnotes and bibliography reveal the amount of recent innovative scholarship on the history of the Jesuits, especially in Italy.' Renaissance Quarterly ’...reads as a kind of theoretical handbook to complement the current flourishing state of Jesuit studies, helping fellow-scholars to locate some of the less visible, but essential, features of the Society in the early modern period. ... Another benefit of the book is that it prompts us to reflect that the irreconcilable tensions between conscience and obedience played out so vividly - even painfully - within the Society, might actually be the cause of crediting the Jesuits with having accommodated one of the most difficult tensions of the age.’ European History Quarterly
