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 inillegalscriptions.
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.
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
Examines the experience of Jesuit missionaries, teachers, and writers along the peripheries of Habsburg lands (including Moldavia, Ukraine, Serbia, and Wallachia) from the Society's peak in the 1630s until its suppression in 1773, focusing on regions continually torn by ethnic tensions.
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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 inillegalscriptions.
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Acknowledgements Introduction: A Fragile Splendor Prelude I. Narratives of Adversity II Peripheries III "In Campos" IV. Campaign in Presov V Sex and Demons VI Detrimenta, Damna VII Theatre and Suffering VIII Jesuits in Banska Bystrica, Klastor pod Znievom, Sarospatak and Levoea IX In Pursuit of History X An Unredeemed Loss: The Jesuit Mission in Belgrade XI Trnava XII Conclusion Bibliography
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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.
