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Book Francesco Benci s Quinque Martyres

Download or read book Francesco Benci s Quinque Martyres written by Paul G. Gwynne and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1583, five Jesuit brothers set out with the intention of founding a new church and mission in India. Their dream was almost immediately, and brutally, terminated by local opposition. When their massacre was announced in Rome, it was treated as martyrdom. Francesco Benci, professor of rhetoric at the Collegium Romanum, immediately set about celebrating their deaths in a new type of epic, distinct from, yet dependent upon, the classical tradition: Quinque martyres e Societate Iesu in India. This is the first critical edition and translation of this important text. The commentary highlights both the classical sources and the historical and religious context of the mission. The introduction outlines Benci’s career and stresses his role as the founder of this vibrant new genre. This volume is the first one for a new subseries in the 'Jesuit Studies' series: 'Jesuit Neo-Latin Library'.

Book Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness

Download or read book Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume theme is the distinctiveness of Jesuits and their ministries that was discussed at the first International Symposium on Jesuit Studies held at Boston College’s Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies in June 2015. It explores the quidditas Jesuitica, or the specifically Jesuit way(s) of proceeding in which Jesuits and their colleagues operated from historical, geographical, social, and cultural perspectives. The collection poses a question whether there was an essential core of distinctive elements that characterized the way in which Jesuits lived their religious vocation and conducted their various works and how these ways of proceeding were lived out in the various epochs and cultures in which Jesuits worked over four and a half centuries; what changed and adapted itself to different times and situations, and what remained constant, transcending time and place, infusing the apostolic works and lives of Jesuits with the charism at the source of the Society of Jesus’s foundation and development. Thanks to generous support of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College, this volume is available in Open Access.

Book Acta Conventus Neo Latini Lovaniensis

Download or read book Acta Conventus Neo Latini Lovaniensis written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every third year, the members of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) assemble for a week-long conference. Over the years, this event has evolved into the largest single conference in the field of Neo-Latin studies. The papers presented at these conferences offer, then, a general overview of the current status of Neo-Latin research; its current trends, popular topics, and methodologies. In 2022, the members of IANLS gathered for a conference in Leuven where 50 years ago the first of these congresses took place.This volume presents the conference’s papers which were submitted after the event and which have undergone a peer-review process. The papers deal with a broad range of fields, including literature, history, philology, and religious studies.

Book An Anthology of European Neo Latin Literature

Download or read book An Anthology of European Neo Latin Literature written by Gesine Manuwald and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by a team of international experts, this volume showcases the best of the huge abundance of literature written in Latin in Europe from about 1500 to 1800. A general introduction provides readers with the context they need before diving into the 19 high-quality short Latin extracts and English translations. Together these texts present a rich panorama of the different literary genres, styles and themes that flourished at the time, and include authors such as Erasmus, Buchanan, Leibniz and Newton, along with less well-known writers. From the vast array of material available, a varied and meaningful sample of texts has been carefully curated by the editors of the volume. Passages not only exhibit literary merit or historical importance, but also illustrate the role of the complete texts from which they have been selected in the development of Neo-Latin literature. They reflect the wide range of authors writing in Latin in early modern Europe, as well as the importance of Latin in the history of ideas. As with all volumes in the series, section introductions and accompanying notes on every text provide orientation on the material for students.

Book The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature

Download or read book The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature written by Roy Gibson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature offers a critical overview of work on Latin literature. Where are we? How did we get here? Where to next? Fifteen commissioned chapters, along with an extensive introduction and Mary Beard's postscript, approach these questions from a range of angles. They aim not to codify the field, but to give snapshots of the discipline from different perspectives, and to offer provocations for future development. The Critical Guide aims to stimulate reflection on how we engage with Latin literature. Texts, tools and territories are the three areas of focus. The Guide situates the study of classical Latin literature within its global context from late antiquity to Neo-Latin, moving away from an exclusive focus on the pre-200 CE corpus. It recalibrates links with adjoining disciplines (history, philosophy, material culture, linguistics, political thought, Greek), and takes a fresh look at key tools (editing, reception, intertextuality, theory).

Book Innovation in the Italian Counter Reformation

Download or read book Innovation in the Italian Counter Reformation written by Shannon McHugh and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enduring "black legend" of the Italian Counter-Reformation, which has held sway in both scholarly and popular culture, maintains that the Council of Trent ushered in a cultural dark age in Italy, snuffing out the spectacular creative production of the Renaissance. As a result, the decades following Trent have been mostly overlooked in Italian literary studies, in particular. The thirteen essays of Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation present a radical reconsideration of literary production in post-Tridentine Italy. With particular attention to the much-maligned tradition of spiritual literature, the volume’s contributors weave literary analysis together with religion, theater, art, music, science, and gender to demonstrate that the literature of this period not only merits study but is positively innovative. Contributors include such renowned critics as Virginia Cox and Amadeo Quondam, two of the leading scholars on the Italian Counter-Reformation. Distributed for UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE PRESS

Book The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits written by Ines G. Zupanov and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 1153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through its missionary, pedagogical, and scientific accomplishments, the Society of Jesus-known as the Jesuits-became one of the first institutions with a truly "global" reach, in practice and intention. The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits offers a critical assessment of the Order, helping to chart new directions for research at a time when there is renewed interest in Jesuit studies. In particular, the Handbook examines their resilient dynamism and innovative spirit, grounded in Catholic theology and Christian spirituality, but also profoundly rooted in society and cultural institutions. It also explores Jesuit contributions to education, the arts, politics, and theology, among others. The volume is organized in seven major sections, totaling forty articles, on the Order's foundation and administration, the theological underpinnings of its activities, the Jesuit involvement with secular culture, missiology, the Order's contributions to the arts and sciences, the suppression the Order endured in the 18th century, and finally, the restoration. The volume also looks at the way the Jesuit Order is changing, including becoming more non-European and ethnically diverse, with its members increasingly interested in engaging society in addition to traditional pastoral duties.

Book Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia

Download or read book Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia written by Nadine Amsler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over recent decades, historians have become increasingly interested in early modern Catholic missions in Asia as laboratories of cultural contact. This book builds on recent ground-breaking research on early modern Catholic missions, which has shown that missionaries in Asia cooperated with and accommodated the needs of local agents rather than being uncompromising promoters of post-Tridentine doctrine and devotion. Bringing together some of the most renowned and innovative researchers from Anglophone countries and continental Europe, this volume investigates how missionaries’ entanglements with local societies across Asia contributed to processes of localization within the early modern Catholic church. The focus of the volume is on missionaries’ adaptation to four ideal-typical social settings that played an eminent role in early modern Asian missions: (1) the symbolically loaded princely court; (2) the city as a space of especially dense communication; (3) the countryside, where missionary presence was only rarely permanent; (4) and the household – a central arena of conversion in early modern Asian societies. Shining a fresh light onto the history of early modern Catholic missions and the early modern Eurasian cultural exchange, this will be an important book for any scholar of religious history, history of cultural contact/global history and early modern history in Asia. Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Book A Guide to Neo Latin Literature

Download or read book A Guide to Neo Latin Literature written by Victoria Moul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 877 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin was for many centuries the common literary language of Europe, and Latin literature of immense range, stylistic power and social and political significance was produced throughout Europe and beyond from the time of Petrarch (c.1400) well into the eighteenth century. This is the first available work devoted specifically to the enormous wealth and variety of neo-Latin literature, and offers both essential background to the understanding of this material and sixteen chapters by leading scholars which are devoted to individual forms. Each contributor relates a wide range of fascinating but now little-known texts to the handful of more familiar Latin works of the period, such as Thomas More's Utopia, Milton's Latin poetry and the works of Petrarch and Erasmus. All Latin is translated throughout the volume.

Book City of Echoes

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  • Author : Jessica Wärnberg
  • Publisher : Icon Books
  • Release : 2023-08-31
  • ISBN : 1837731071
  • Pages : 347 pages

Download or read book City of Echoes written by Jessica Wärnberg and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rome the echoes of the past resound clearly in its palaces and monuments, and in the remains of the ancient imperial city. But another presence has dominated Rome for 2,000 years -the pope, whose actions and influence echo down the ages. In this epic tale, historian Jessica Wärnberg tells, for the first time, the story of Rome through the lens of its popes, illuminating how these remarkable (and unremarkable) men have transformed lives and played a crucial role in deciding the fate of the city. Emerging as the anonymous leader of a marginal cult in the humblest quarters of the city, less than 300 years later the pope sat enthroned in a gilt basilica, endorsed by the emperor himself. Eventually, the Roman pontiff would supplant even the emperors, becoming the de facto ruler of Rome and pre-eminent leader of the Christian world. Shifting elegantly between the panoramic and the personal, the spiritual and the profane, this is a fresh and often surprising take on a city, a people and an institution that is at once familiar and elusive.

Book Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy written by Marco Sgarbi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 3618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.

Book Neo Latin and the Vernaculars

Download or read book Neo Latin and the Vernaculars written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early modern world was profoundly bilingual: alongside the emerging vernaculars, Latin continued to be pervasively used well into the 18th century. Authors were often active in and conversant with both vernacular and Latin discourses. The language they chose for their writings depended on various factors, be they social, cultural, or merely aesthetic, and had an impact on how and by whom these texts were received. Due to the increasing interest in Neo-Latin studies, early modern bilingualism has recently been attracting attention. This volumes provides a series of case studies focusing on key aspects of early modern bilingualism, such as language choice, translations/rewritings, and the interferences between vernacular and Neo-Latin discourses. Contributors are Giacomo Comiati, Ronny Kaiser, Teodoro Katinis, Francesco Lucioli, Giuseppe Marcellino, Marianne Pade, Maxim Rigaux, Florian Schaffenrath, Claudia Schindler, Federica Signoriello, Thomas Velle, Alexander Winkler.

Book The Jesuit Collection in the John J  Burns Library of Boston College

Download or read book The Jesuit Collection in the John J Burns Library of Boston College written by Boston College. John J. Burns Library and published by [Boston] : Boston College Libraries. This book was released on 1986 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Asia in the Making of Europe  Volume II

Download or read book Asia in the Making of Europe Volume II written by Donald F. Lach and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in the sixteenth-century; he surveys a vast array of writings describing Asian life and society, the images of Asia that emerge from those writings, and, in turn, the reflections of those images in European literature and art. This monumental achievement reveals profound and pervasive influences of Asian societies on developing Western culture; in doing so, it provides a perspective necessary for a balanced view of world history. Volume I: The Century of Discovery brings together "everything that a European could know of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, from printed books, missionary reports, traders' accounts and maps" (The New York Review of Books). Volume II: A Century of Wonder examines the influence of that vast new body of information about Asia on the arts, institutions, literatures, and ideas of sixteenth-century Europe.

Book Sixteenth Century Imprints in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania

Download or read book Sixteenth Century Imprints in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania written by M. A. Shaaber and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalogue of the C16th imprints in the University of Pennsylvania libraries, running to approximately 10,000 items.

Book Widener Library Shelflist  Latin literature

Download or read book Widener Library Shelflist Latin literature written by Harvard University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Neulateinisches Jahrbuch

Download or read book Neulateinisches Jahrbuch written by Marc Laureys and published by Georg Olms Verlag. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detaillierte Informationen zum Neulateinischen Jahrbuch erhalten Sie hier: https://www.philologie.uni-bonn.de/de/medneolat/neulateinisches-jahrbuch Conspectus rerum In memoriam MARCUS DE SCHEPPER, Nachruf auf Jeanine De Landtsheer I. Commentationes EDUARDO DEL PINO, La Victoriae in freto Gaditano descriptio de Bonaventura Vulcanio: un caso más del “limae labor” de los autores neo-latinos / STEFAN ELIT, Ein kaiserlicher Wüterich und zwei antagonistische Simons. Der Nero furens als Beispiel aus dem Paderborner Jesuitendramenkorpus / PETER GROSSARDT, Sprachliche Bemerkungen zu Poggio Bracciolinis Brief aus Baden (I 46 Harth) / DELILA JORDAN, Die beiden frühneuzeitlichen Editionen des Berichts von Martin Baumgartners Reise ins Heilige Land zwischen literarischer Aneignung und wissenschaftlicher Editionsarbeit / WALTHER LUDWIG, Die Epigrammatum libelli quatuor von Salomon Frenzel (1588) – eine biographische und literarische Auswertung / WALTHER LUDWIG, Musik in Ferrara – der Hymnus an die ‚Musica‘ des Girolamo Faletti (1557) und die Nutricia des Angelo Poliziano / PATRYK M. RYCZKOWSKI, Paraphrasis historiae de Susanna by Adamus Placotomus Silesius and the ‘raptularius’ (notebook) of Mikolaj Lubomirski / ROLAND SAUER, Vitae Melissi. Die frühen Lebensbeschreibungen des Paulus Schedius Melissus / FLORIAN SCHAFFENRATH, Das Lob Venedigs und seiner Krieger: Francesco Modestis Venetias (1521) / RAPHAEL SCHWITTER, „I, liber, in tenebras!“ Zur antiislamischen Versinvektive des Martin Le Franc und einem neuen Textzeugen der Errores legis Mahumeti des Juan de Segovia in BnF, Ms. lat. 3669 / GÁBOR TÜSKÉS, The Re-Evaluation of Ferenc Rákóczi II’s Confessio peccatoris II. Investigandarum rerum prospectus REINHOLD F. GLEI, Neulateinische Forschungsprojekte / PATRYK M. RYCZKOWSKI, Caelestis Hierusalem Cives. The Role and Function of the Latin Hagiographic Epic in Early Modern Saint-Making: An Introduction to a New Research Project III. Librorum existimationes Oleg Nikitinski, Lateinische Musterprosa und Sprachpflege der Neuzeit. (17. – Anfang des 19. Jhs.). Ein Wörterbuch (ALEXANDER WINKLER) / André Schnyder (Hrsg.), Maria die Himmels-Thür. Ein anonymes Theophilus-Drama 1655 bei den Straubinger Jesuiten aufgeführt (STEFAN ELIT) / Craig Kallendorf, Printing Virgil. The Transformation of the Classics in the Renaissance (MARIJKE CRAB) / André Delvaux, Barthélemy Latomus, pédagogue et conseiller humaniste (FRANCIS GOYET) / Wilhelm Kühlmann (Hrsg.), Prata Florida. Neue Studien anlässlich des dreißigjährigen Bestehens der Heidelberger Sodalitas Neolatina (NIKLAS GUTT) / François Goyet / Delphine Denis (éd.), Joseph de Jouvancy : L’élève de rhétorique (CHRISTOPHE MARINHEIRO) / Han Lamers / Bettina Reitz-Joosse / Valerio Sanzotta (ed.), Studies in the Latin Literature and Epigraphy of Italian Fascism (ROBERT SEIDEL) IV. Quaestiones recentissimae WALTHER LUDWIG, Die Klage der Latrine von Carolus Liebardus Langmarcaeus und das Erasmische Lob der Torheit