The Jesuit mind : the mentality of an elite in early modern France /
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Format: | eKnjiga Elektronski |
Jezik: | English |
Imprint: | Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1988. |
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Retention: | digitized |
Online dostop: | Click here for full text |
Izvleček: | In The Jesuit Mind, A. Lynn Martin delves into the mental worlds of the Jesuits involved in the Society of Jesus's French mission during the latter half of the sixteenth century. Drawing upon the extensive correspondence between Jesuits in France and the Society's generals in Rome, Martin seeks to determine what was distinctive about the Jesuit mentality in early modem France. The first part of the book focuses on these Jesuits as a value-forming elite. In it Martin covers such topics as their strategy for the salvation and perfection of souls in France, their difficulties in dealing with the ideals established by Ignatius Loyola, their educational program, their hostility toward Protestants, and their reaction to the increasingly centralized Jesuit bureaucracy. The author then goes on in the book's second part to look at the Jesuits as members of |
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Opis knjige/članka: | Print version record. |
Fizični opis: | 1 online resource (xvi, 256 pages) : portraits |
System Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Bibliografija: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-243) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781501746055 1501746057 |
Avtorjeve opombe: | A. Lynn Martin is currently Reader in History at the University of Adelaide. |