John W. O'Malley, S.J., is professor in the Department of Church History at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology.

Gauvin Alexander Bailey is an associate Professor in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Clark University.

Steven J. Harris is a professor at the Jesuit Institute, Boston College.

T. Frank Kennedy, S.J. is a professor in and chair of the Department of Music at Boston College.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTRIBUTORS

PREFACE

ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION JOHN W. O’MALLEY, S . J.

PART ONE

The Society in Society

1 / Every Tub on Its Own Bottom: Funding a Jesuit College in Early Modern Europe
OLWEN HUFTON

2 / The Jesuits and the Art of Translation in Early Modern Europe
PETER BURKE

3 / Join the Jesuits, See the World: Early Modern Women in Spain and the Society of Jesus
ELIZABETH RHODES

4 / Between History and Myth: The Monita secreta Societatis Jesu
SABINA PAVONE

5 / Revolutionary Pedagogues? How Jesuits Used Education to Change Society
JUDI LOACH

6 / The Jesuit Garden
PETER DAVIDSON

PART TWO

The Visual Arts and the Arts of Persuasion

7 / Jesuit Uses of Art in the Province of Flanders
JEFFREY MULLER

8 / Meditation, Ministry, and Visual Rhetoric in Peter Paul Rubens’s Program for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp
ANNA C. KNAP

9 / Art in the Service of God: The Impact of the Society of Jesus on the Decorative Arts in Portugal
NUNO VASSALLO E SILVA

10 / Cultural Convergence at the Ends of the Earth: The Unique Art and Architecture of the Jesuit Missions to the Chiloé Archipelago (1608-1767)
GAUVIN ALEXANDER BAILEY

11 / The Rural Churches of the Jesuit Haciendas on the Southern Peruvian Coast
HUMBERTO RODRÍGUEZ-CAMILLONI

12 / Suzhou Prints and Western Perspective: The Painting Techniques of Jesuit Artists at the Qing Court, and Dissemination of the Contemporary Court Style of Painting to Mid-Eighteenth-Century Chinese Society through Woodblock Prints
HIROMITSU KOBAYASHI

PART THREE

Scientific Knowledge, the Order of Nature, and Natural Theology

13 / Picturing Jesuit Anti-Copernican Consensus: Astronomy and Biblical Exegesis in the Engraved Title-Page of Clavius’s Opera mathematica (1612)
VOLKER R. REMMERT

14 / Jesuit Influences on Galileo’s Science
WILLIAM A. WALLACE, O.P.

15 / Utility, Edification, and Superstition: Jesuit Censorship and Athanasius Kircher’s Oedipus Aegyptiacus
DANIEL STOLZENBERG

16 / Teaching Mathematics in Jesuit Schools: Programs, Course Content, and Classroom Practices
ANTONELLA ROMANO

17 / Entering Dangerous Ground: Jesuits Teaching Astrology and Chiromancy in Lisbon
HENRIQUE LEITÃO

18 / Science and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Spain: The Contribution of the Jesuits before and after the Expulsion
VÍCTOR NAVARRO BROTÓNS

19 / The Reception of a Theory: A Provisional Syllabus of Boscovich Literature, 1746-1800
UGO BALDINI

PART FOUR

Music, Theatre, and the Uses of Performance

20 / ‘A Certain Indulgence’: Music at the Jesuit College in Paris, 1575-1590
DAVID CROOK

21 / Between Stage and Divine Service: Jesuits and Theatrical Music
FRANZ KÖRNDLE

22 / Sung Catechism and College Opera: Two Musical Genres in the Jesuit Evangelization of Colonial Chile
VÍCTOR RONDÓN

23 / The Orator’s Performance: Gesture, Word, and Image in Theatre at the Collegio Romano
BRUNA FILIPPI

24 / The Jesuit Stage and Theatre in Milan during the Eighteenth Century
GIOVANNA ZANLONGHI

25 / ‘Lascivi Spettacoli’: Jesuits and Theatre (from the Underside)
MICHAEL ZAMPELLI, S.J.

PART FIVE

The Overseas Missions: Challenges and Strategies

26 / Grammar and Virtue: The Formulation of a Cultural and Missionary Program by the Jesuits in Early Colonial Peru
SABINE MACCORMACK

27 / The Problematic Acquisition of Indigenous Languages: Practices and Contentions in Missionary Specialization in the Jesuit Province of Peru (1568-1640)
ALIOCHA MALDAVSKY

28 / The Uses of Shamanism: Evangelizing Strategies and Missionary Models in Seventeenth-Century Brazil
CHARLOTTE DE CASTELNAU-L’ESTOILE

29 / Jesuits, Too: Jesuits, Women Catechists, and Jezebels in Christian-Century Japan
HARUKO NAWATA WARD

30 / Clockwork and the Jesuit Mission in China
CATHERINE PAGANI

PART SIX

Expulsions, Suppressions, and the Surviving Remnant

31 / Between the Rigorist Hammer and the Deist Anvil: The Fate of the Jesuits in Eighteenth-Century France
MARC FUMAROLE

32 / The Expulsion of the Jesuits and the Treatment of Catholic Representational Objects during the French Revolution
RICHARD CLAY

33 / The Gang of Four and the Campaign against the Jesuits in Eighteenth-Century Brazil
DAURIL ALDEN

34 / Twilight in the Imperial City: The Jesuit Mission in China, 1748-60 725
RONNIE PO-CHIA HSIA

35 / Boscovich in the Balkans: A Jesuit Perspective on Orthodox Christianity in the Age of Enlightenment
LARRY WOLFF

36 / A Jesuit Beata at the Time of the Suppression in the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata: María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa, 1730-1799
ALICIA FRASCHINA

37 / The Post-Suppression Society of Jesus in the United States and Russia: Two Unlikely Settings
DANIEL L. SCHLAFLY, JR

APPENDIX

Jesuit Opera in Seventeenth-Century Vienna: Patientis Christi memoria by Johann Bernhard Staudt (1654-1712)
T. FRANK KENNEDY, S.J.

Patientis Christi memoria: Text

INDEX