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Narratives of adversity : Jesuits in the eastern peripheries of the Habsburg realms (1640-1773) / Paul Shore.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9786155053481
  • 6155053480
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Narratives of adversity.DDC classification:
  • 271/.53049 23
LOC classification:
  • BX3728 .S56 2012eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
I Narratives of Adversity 17 -- II Peripheries 37 -- III "In Campos" 65 -- IV Campaign in Presov 93 -- V Sex and Demons 111 -- VI Detrimenta, Damna 125 -- VII Theatre and Suffering 135 -- VIII Jesuits in Banská Bystrica, Klástor pod Znievom, Sárospatak, and Levoca 173 -- IX In Pursuit of History 211 -- X An Unredeemed Loss: The Jesuit Mission in Belgrade 243 -- XI Trnava 251 -- XII Conclusion 281.
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)438528

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

I Narratives of Adversity 17 -- II Peripheries 37 -- III "In Campos" 65 -- IV Campaign in Presov 93 -- V Sex and Demons 111 -- VI Detrimenta, Damna 125 -- VII Theatre and Suffering 135 -- VIII Jesuits in Banská Bystrica, Klástor pod Znievom, Sárospatak, and Levoca 173 -- IX In Pursuit of History 211 -- X An Unredeemed Loss: The Jesuit Mission in Belgrade 243 -- XI Trnava 251 -- XII Conclusion 281.