Jesuit Historiography Online

Subject: History
Editor: Robert A. Maryks

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Jesuit Historiography Online (JHO) is an Open Access resource offering over seventy historiographical essays written by experts in their field. Aimed at scholars of Jesuit history and at those in all overlapping areas, the essays in JHO provide summaries of key texts from the earlier literature, painstaking surveys of more recent work, and digests of archival and online resources. Crucially, the scope of the essays is global: they cover both Anglophone and non-Anglophone sources and scholarship from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The result is much more than a bibliographical check-list: authors explore trends in Jesuit historiography and provide a nuanced, systematic, and in-depth analysis of what has been written—when, why, and by whom—about arguably the most prolific, diverse, and wide-ranging religious order within the Roman Catholic tradition. JHO is available in Open Access thanks to generous support from the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College.

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Historiography of Jesuit Cartography

(14,561 words)

Author(s): Batchelor, Robert
Robert Batchelor [email protected] Last modified: February 2019I. Introduction: The Absence of a FieldJesuit cartography, a vast and lively area of historical scholarship, does not as yet have a proper…
Source: Jesuit Historiography Online
Date: 2019-06-18

Historiography of Jesuit Post-Restoration Philosophy

(11,592 words)

Author(s): Casalini, Cristiano
Cristiano Casalini [email protected] Last modified: December 2016   PreludeA historiographical paper on Jesuit modern philosophy must address some methodological issues before developing its arguments. First o…
Source: Jesuit Historiography Online
Date: 2019-06-18

Historiography of Jesuits in Canada since 1842

(9,300 words)

Author(s): Meehan, S.J., John D.
John D. Meehan, S.J. [email protected] Last modified: June 2017Since their return to Canada in 1842, Jesuits have played an instrumental role in education and intellectual life, domestic and foreign miss…
Source: Jesuit Historiography Online
Date: 2019-06-18

Historiography of Jesuit Spirituality

(7,749 words)

Author(s): Faesen, Rob
Rob Faesen, S.J. [email protected] L…
Source: Jesuit Historiography Online
Date: 2019-06-18

Historiography of the Art and Architecture of the Jesuits

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Jeffrey Muller [email protected] …
Source: Jesuit Historiography Online
Date: 2019-06-18

Historiography of the Australian Province

(7,935 words)

Author(s): Strong, S.J., David
David Strong, S.J. [email protected] Last modified: June 2017The Australian province was founded as a mission to South Australia by the Austrian province in 1848. Jesuits settled initially in Sevenhill, established a school, and then parishes in the north of the state, as well as mission stations around the Daly River, in current-day Northern Territory. In 1865, the Irish province began an independent mission to Victoria with Jesuits following the Irish pattern of ministry: working in education and parishes. The two missions amalgamated under the administration of the Irish province in 1900. Ministry extended into the field of tertiary education, residential university colleges, and seminaries. The mission became a vice-province in 1931 and a province in 1950. With increased numbers o…
Source: Jesuit Historiography Online
Date: 2019-06-18

Historiography of the Jesuits in Britain in the Late Modern Period

(7,759 words)

Author(s): von Arx, S.J., Jeffrey P.
Jeffrey P. von Arx, S.J. [email protected] Last…
Source: Jesuit Historiography Online
Date: 2020-07-24

Historiography of the Jesuits in England in the Early Modern Period

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Author(s): Thomas, Hannah
Hannah Thomas [email protected] Last modified: July 2017Introduction: …
Source: Jesuit Historiography Online
Date: 2019-06-18

Historiography of the Philippine Province

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Author(s): Javellana, S.J., René B.
René B. Javellana, S.J.
Source: Jesuit Historiography Online
Date: 2019-06-18

Historiography of the Post-Restoration Society of Jesus in Spain

(8,895 words)

Author(s): Revuelta González, Manuel
Manuel Revuelta González [email protected] Last modified: December 2016HistoryThe restoration of the So…
Source: Jesuit Historiography Online
Date: 2019-06-18

Historiography of the Post-Restoration Society of Jesus in Spanish America

(23,548 words)

Author(s): Salas-Fernández, Manuel | Soaje-de-Elías, Raquel
Source: Jesuit Historiography Online
Date: 2022-03-27

Historiography of the Society of Jesus: The Case of France after the Order’s Restoration in 1814

(16,283 words)

Author(s): Avon, Dominique | Rocher, Philippe
Dominique Avon and Philippe Rocher [email protected] [email protected] Last modified: March 2017For a long time, the histories of the Jesuits and of anti-Jesuitism remained intertwined.1 In 1640, o…
Source: Jesuit Historiography Online
Date: 2019-06-18

Historiography on the Jesuits in Italy after 1814

(9,292 words)

Author(s): Dahl, David Lebovitch
David Lebovitch Dahl [email protected] Last modified: September 2018  In Italy the Jesuit order has been more often the object of polemics than of historical scholarship, and historical scholarship on the…
Source: Jesuit Historiography Online
Date: 2019-09-27

History-Writing and the Philosophy of Language: A Proposal for the Periodization of Early Modern Jesuit Historiography

(9,011 words)

Author(s): Bonda, Moreno
Moreno Bonda…
Source: Jesuit Historiography Online
Date: 2019-06-18