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The Jesuits II [electronic resource] : cultures, sciences, and the arts, 1540-1773 / edited by John W. O'Malley ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Publication details: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, c2006.Description: 1 online resource (xxxvi, 905 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9781442681552 (electronic bk.)
  • 1442681551 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 271/.53 22
LOC classification:
  • BX3706.3 .J48 2006eb
Online resources:
Partial contents:
pt. 1. The Society in society -- pt. 2. The visual arts and the arts of persuasion -- pt. 3. Scientific knowledge, the order of nature, and natural theology -- pt. 4. Music, theatre, and the uses of performance -- pt. 5. The overseas missions: challenges and strategies -- pt. 6. Expulsions, suppressions, and the surviving remnant -- Appendix: Jesuit opera in seventeenth-century Vienna: Patientis Christi memoria by Johann Bernhard Staudt (1654-1712).
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Essays originally presented as papers at a conference held in 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. The Society in society -- pt. 2. The visual arts and the arts of persuasion -- pt. 3. Scientific knowledge, the order of nature, and natural theology -- pt. 4. Music, theatre, and the uses of performance -- pt. 5. The overseas missions: challenges and strategies -- pt. 6. Expulsions, suppressions, and the surviving remnant -- Appendix: Jesuit opera in seventeenth-century Vienna: Patientis Christi memoria by Johann Bernhard Staudt (1654-1712).

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