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Narratives of Adversity

By Shore, Paul J.

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Narratives of Adversity

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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.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
394
Release Date:
2012-03-10
Publication Date:
2012-03-10
Publisher:
Central European University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
6155053472
ISBN13:
9786155053474
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
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Weight:
722 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
26 cm
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