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Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy - Biographical Writing in the Early Global Age (Hardcover)
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Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy - Biographical Writing in the Early Global Age (Hardcover)
Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
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A new history illuminates the Society of Jesus in its first century
from the perspective of those who knew it best: the early Jesuits
themselves. The Society of Jesus was established in 1540. In the
century that followed, thousands sought to become Jesuits and
pursue vocations in religious service, teaching, and missions.
Drawing on scores of unpublished biographical documents housed at
the Roman Jesuit Archive, Camilla Russell illuminates the lives of
those who joined the Society, building together a religious and
cultural presence that remains influential the world over. Tracing
Jesuit life from the Italian provinces to distant missions, Russell
sheds new light on the impact and inner workings of the Society.
The documentary record reveals a textual network among individual
members, inspired by Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises. The
early Jesuits took stock of both quotidian and spiritual
experiences in their own records, which reflect a community where
the worldly and divine overlapped. Echoing the Society's
foundational writings, members believed that each Jesuit's personal
strengths and inclinations offered a unique contribution to the
whole-an attitude that helps explain the Society's widespread
appeal from its first days. Focusing on the Jesuits' own words,
Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy offers a new lens on the
history of spirituality, identity, and global exchange in the
Renaissance. What emerges is a kind of genetic code-a thread
connecting the key Jesuit works to the first generations of Jesuits
and the Society of Jesus as it exists today.
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