1st Edition
Narratives of Adversity Jesuits on the Eastern Peripheries of the Habsburg Realms (1640-1773)
By Paul J. Shore
Copyright 2012
394 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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,... Read more
Acknowledgments, Prelude, Introduction: A Fragile Splendor, I Narratives of Adversity, II Peripheries, III “In Campos”, IV Campaign in Prešov, V Sex and Demons, VI Detrimenta, Damna, VII Theatre and Suffering, VIII Jesuits in Banská Bystrica, Kláštor pod Znievom, Sárospatak, and Levoca, IX In Pursuit of History, X An Unredeemed Loss: The Jesuit Mission in Belgrade, XI Trnava XII Conclusion, Bibliography, Index, Registry of geographical names
Biography
Paul Shore has held teaching and research posts at Saint Louis University, Harvard Divinity School, the University of Wroclaw, the University of Edinburgh and Charles University Prague, and most recently was Stanley Knowles Distinguished Visiting Professor at Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.His publications include The Eagle and the Cross: Jesuits in Baroque Prague, Jesuits and the Politics of Religious Pluralism in Eighteenth-Century Transylvania, and Rest lightly: A collection of Latin and Greek tomb inscriptions.
