2019 (Boston) – Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of Jesus
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E-ISSN: 2766-0664
ISBN: 978-1-947617-09-4
Publisher: Institute of Jesuit Sources
International Symposia on Jesuit Studies, (2019)
The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies hosted its fifth annual International Symposium on Jesuit Studies in June 2019 at Boston College. The theme for the event was “Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of Jesus.” The keynote address was delivered by Simon Ditchfield of York University. The program featured presentations by nearly 80 other scholars, making it the largest symposium to date.
The essays below are revisions of presentations, as invited by the Institute. Each essay was subjected to a double-blind peer review and further revisions by the author. All necessary citation information for each essay appears on its downloadable pdf document. Essays will be published on a rolling basis.
Learn more about the International Symposium on Jesuit Studies.
Open Access
E-ISSN: 2766-0664
ISBN: 978-1-947617-09-4
Publisher: Institute of Jesuit Sources
International Symposia on Jesuit Studies, (2019)
The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies hosted its fifth annual International Symposium on Jesuit Studies in June 2019 at Boston College. The theme for the event was “Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of Jesus.” The keynote address was delivered by Simon Ditchfield of York University. The program featured presentations by nearly 80 other scholars, making it the largest symposium to date.
The essays below are revisions of presentations, as invited by the Institute. Each essay was subjected to a double-blind peer review and further revisions by the author. All necessary citation information for each essay appears on its downloadable pdf document. Essays will be published on a rolling basis.
Learn more about the International Symposium on Jesuit Studies.
Table of Contents
Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of Jesus
Introduction
Author(s): Cristiano Casalini, Emanuele Colombo, and Seth Meehan
Page(s): 1–3
Publication Date: 15 February 2021
Section 1. Jesuit Sources of Self-identification
Sources used for crafting a Jesuit identity and for preserving a Jesuit past
Part 1 — Forming and Changing Identity through Print
The Voices of Memoria: Diaria, Historiae, and Annuaria as Records of Experience in the Pre-suppression SocietyThe Challenge of Adaptation: Jesuit Schools in the United States in the Wake of Vatican II
Author(s): Paul Shore
Page(s): 1–16
Publication Date: 01 March 2021
Pedro de Ribadeneira and the Use of Sources: Critical History and Hagiography in the Early Society of JesusThe Meanings That Keep Us Going in a Challenging Profession
Author(s): Robert L. Scully, S.J.
Page(s): 1–16
Publication Date: 20 April 2021
Between Identity and History: Giovanni Antonio Valtrino and His Vocazioni meravigliose alla Compagnia di Gesù
Author(s): Irene Gaddo
Page(s): 1–23
Publication Date: 01 March 2021
Giovambattista Noghera (1719–84): A Jesuit Looking Back at a Great Rhetorical Tradition
Author(s): Hanne Roer
Page(s): 1–17
Publication Date: 01 March 2021
François Pomey’s Candidatus rhetoricae and Its Revisions as Documents of the History of Jesuit Rhetorical Education
Author(s): Manfred Kraus
Page(s): 1–16
Publication Date: 01 March 2021
Part 2 — Institutional Sources: Collections and Challenges
A Jesuit Culture of Records?: The Society of Jesus, the Life Cycle of Administrative Documents, and the Late Medieval and Early Modern History of Bureaucratic Information
Author(s): Markus Friedrich
Page(s): 1–18
Publication Date: 01 March 2021
Jesuit Libraries in the Old and the New Society of Jesus as a Historiographical Theme
Author(s): Noël Golvers
Page(s): 1–19
Publication Date: 01 March 2021
Archiving Jesuit Libraries: Past, Present, and Future
Author(s): Kyle B. Roberts
Page(s): 1–22
Publication Date: 26 April 2022
From Tintype to Twitter: Photography at the Irish Jesuit Archives
Author(s): Damien Burke
Page(s): 1–17
Publication Date: 01 March 2021
Part 3 — Race and Memory: Recordkeeping and Slavery
A Spiritual Inheritance: Black Catholics in Southern Maryland
Author(s): Laura E. Masur
Page(s): 1–23
Publication Date: 01 March 2021
Slaveholding and Jesuit Recordkeeping in the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus, 1717–1867
Author(s): Elsa B. Mendoza
Page(s): 1–29
Publication Date: 01 March 2021
“Regulations for Our Black People”: Reconstructing the Experiences of Enslaved People in the United States through Jesuit Records
Author(s): Kelly L. Schmidt
Page(s): 1–23
Publication Date: 01 March 2021
Part 4 — Lost Sources Found
Invisible Histories, Silenced Histories of the Philippines: The Labor evangélica: Ministerios apostólicos de los obreros de la Compañía de Jesús; Segunda parte (c.1701) by the Jesuit Diego de Oña (1655–1721)
Author(s): Alexandre Coello de la Rosa
Page(s): 1–15
Publication Date: 01 March 2021
Sketching the Historical Soundscape of Sacred Music in China through Jesuit Sources
Author(s): Lionel Li-Xing Hong
Page(s): 1–16
Publication Date: 22 August 2023
The Forgotten Jesuits: The Society of Jesus in the Duchy of Modena; Between Archival Memory and New Research Trends
Author(s): David Salomoni
Page(s): 1–11
Publication Date: 01 March 2021
History-keeping under Persecution: Sources from the College of Jesus of Coimbra, Discovered in 2016
Author(s): Margarida Miranda, and Carlota Miranda Urbano
Page(s): 1–17
Publication Date: 24 October 2022
Section 2. Sources as Windows to Jesuit and Other History
Scholars asking new questions of sources to better understand the past
Part 1 — Desiring the World: Litterae Indipetae of the Old and New Society
“You only torment and upset yourself”: Replies to a Restless Writer at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century
Author(s): Elisa Frei
Page(s): 1–14
Publication Date: 20 April 2021
“For the salvation of Russia”: Some Brief Remarks on Russipetae in the 20th Century
Author(s): Sabina Pavone
Page(s): 1–14
Publication Date: 24 October 2022
Part 2 — Engaging the World: Cultural Impacts
Spiritual Edification and Publishing Policies in Jesuit Work in South American Missions (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries)
Author(s): Juan Dejo, S.J.
Page(s): 1–16
Publication Date: 01 March 2021
The Materiality of Catholic Resistance in Sources for the English Jesuit Mission
Author(s): Aislinn Muller
Page(s): 1–19
Publication Date: 01 March 2021
Visions of Contemplation: Jesuits and Their Rhetoric of Persuasion in Japan
Author(s): Aiko Okamoto-MacPhail
Page(s): 1–21
Publication Date: 14 July 2021
Early Modern Jesuit Writing of History as an Inspiration for Central European Historians before 1773
Author(s): Jakub Zouhar
Page(s): 1–17
Publication Date: 20 April 2021
Jesuit Science in America: The Bulletin of the American Association of Jesuit Scientists (1922–66)
Author(s): Francisco Malta Romeiras
Page(s): 1–28
Publication Date: 01 March 2021
Part 3 — Engaging the World: Pedagogical Impacts
Philosophy at the Geopolitical Service of Mission: The Coimbra Jesuits’ “Wirkungsgeographie” (1542–1730)
Author(s): Mário Santiago de Carvalho
Page(s): 1–15
Publication Date: 20 April 2021
The Philosophy Textbooks of Portuguese Jesuits’ Courses in the 16th-Century
Author(s): Paula Oliveira e Silva, and João Rebalde
Page(s): –
Publication Date:
The Jesuits’ Philosophical Heritage in Brazil
Author(s): Lúcio Álvaro Marques
Page(s): 1–14
Publication Date: 26 April 2022
Knowledge and Personal Expectancies: Jesuit Intellectual Culture and Missionary Experience in the Early Jesuit Province of New Spain
Author(s): Hugo Zayas-González
Page(s): 1–16
Publication Date: 20 April 2021
Part 4 — Transforming Jesuit Sources
Jesuits Leaving the Classroom. A Study on the Changing Landscape of the Teaching: Workforce in Jesuit Schools in the Americas (1950–2017)
Author(s): Cristóbal Madero, S.J.
Page(s): –
Publication Date:
A Plea for a Jesuit Annual Catalog Database
Author(s): Laura Madella
Page(s): 1–18
Publication Date: 01 March 2021
Jesuit Institutional Change in the 1970s: Its Impact on Jesuit Sources and Historiography, and the Future of Jesuit Archives in Francophone Africa and Europe
Author(s): Barbara Baudry and Jean Luc Enyegue, S.J.
Page(s): 1–12
Publication Date: 01 March 2021
Exploring the Apostleship of Prayer Collection at the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu (ARSI): Between Archival Analysis and Research Perspectives
Author(s): Sergio Palagiano
Page(s): 1–19
Publication Date: 01 March 2021