nelles, paul
The article offers a revisionist account of the early circulation of copies of the Madonna of Santa Maria Maggiore, known since the nineteenth century as the Salus Populi Romani. Traditionally, the propulsion of the image into global circulation has been attributed variously to Pius V or Francisco Borja, the third Superior General of the Society of...
Trento, Margherita
This article examines the martyrdom of the Jesuit missionary Saint João de Brito (1647-1693) and the beginnings of his cult, at once embedded in the local dynamics of the Tamil country and extending towards broad imperial horizons. How did a Portuguese Jesuit, an agent of modern global Catholicism, become such a locally anchored figure? And how did...
Page, Carlos A.
Father Antonio Ripari was an Italian missionary who stayed only two and a half years in the province of Paraguay, and was martyred in the Chaco, together with Father Gaspar Osorio, when he was about thirty years old. Three times he asked to be sent to the Indies and while he was finishing his studies in Cordoba, waiting for his longed-for destinati...
Frei, Elisa
Published in
Journal of Early Modern Christianity
This essay focuses on Francis Xavier (1506–1552), the first saint of the Society of Jesus, canonised with its founder Ignatius of Loyola in 1622, and three differing perceptions of his sanctity, both within his own religious order and outside it. The work of Alessandro Valignano gives a first introduction soon after Xavier’s death, with complaints ...
Page, Carlos A.
The document that we present on this occasion is one of the twelve unpublished items that can be found in a file in the Loyola Sanctuary Historical Archive that Fr. Lorenzo Casado compiled for Fr. Pedro de Calatayud, who would compose a story of the Jesuit Prov-ince of Paraguay that was unpublished. As well as this and another text on the mataguayo...
Blestel, Élodie
El Tesoro de la lengua guaraní y el Arte de la lengua guaraní, publicados en Madrid en 1639 y 1640 por el padre jesuita Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, constituyen uno de los primeros intentos de gramatización y objetivación de la lengua guaraní en pos de proporcionar a los misioneros las herramientas lingüísticas necesarias para la comunicación en las di...
Brignon, Thomas
Centrándose en tres relatos ejemplares o exempla vertidos al guaraní por el cacique Nicolás Yapuguay bajo la dirección del padre Pablo Restivo, este artículo vincula traducción colaborativa de textos religiosos y co-construcción de una nueva tradición retórica en las misiones jesuíticas del Paraguay. Poco estudiadas, esas anécdotas edificantes de o...
Lopes de Carvalho, Francismar Alex
Desde meados do século XVI e por todo o século XVII, colonos e missionários exploraram assiduamente as franjas da Amazônia localizadas a oriente da Audiência de Quito e teceram diversas imagens das populações indígenas. Os nativos foram classificados em duas grandes categorias: de um lado, estavam os tidos por “amigos”, em quem os espanhóis verific...
Montón-Subías, Sandra
Published in
International Journal of Historical Archaeology
This article proposes that early modern globalization took shape through the global circulation of gender ideologies, sexual politics, engendered technologies, and engendered knowledge. It does so by exploring the early years of Jesuit missions in Guam (Mariana Islands) and describes mission policies as engendered sexual policies that fostered the ...
Brignon, Thomas
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