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Author Shore, Paul J., 1956-

Title Narratives of adversity : Jesuits in the eastern peripheries of the Habsburg realms (1640-1773) / Paul Shore
Published Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2012

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Contents ""Cover ""; ""Title page ""; ""Copyright page ""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Prelude""; ""Introduction: A Fragile Splendor""; ""I Narratives of Adversity""; ""II Peripheries""; ""III “In Camposâ€?""; ""IV Campaign in PreÅ¡ov""; ""V Sex and Demons""; ""VI Detrimenta, Damnaâ€?""; ""VII Theatre and Suffering""; ""VIII Jesuits in Banská Bystrica, Kláštor pod Znievom, Sárospatak, and LevoÄ?a""; ""IX In Pursuit of History""; ""X An Unredeemed Loss: The Jesuit Mission in Belgrade""; ""XI Trnava""; ""XII Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
Summary 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
Analysis 17th century, 18th century, Austria, Eastern Europe, History, Jesuits, Religion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Jesuits -- Austria -- History -- 17th century
Jesuits -- Austria -- History -- 18th century
Jesuits -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 17th century
Jesuits -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 18th century
SUBJECT Jesuits fast
Subject RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
RELIGION -- Education.
Austria
Eastern Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9786155053481
6155053480