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Betwixt Jesuit and Enlightenment Historiography : Jean-Sylvain Bailly's History of Indian Astronomy

Revue d'Histoire des Mathematiques, 2018
The crystallization of scientic disciplines in late eighteenth-century Europe was accompanied by the proliferation of specialist histories of science. These histories were framed as much by the imperatives of the astronomy of the times as they were by ...
Dhruv Raina
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Torino, 1593: Motivi dell’opposizione universitaria ai gesuiti nel contesto degli antagonismi europei del tempo - Turin 1593: the Reasons for Opposing the Jesuits against the Background of the Contemporary European Antagonisms

Rivista di Storia dell'Università di Torino, 2014
This paper deals with an unpublished Renaissance document preserved in the Archives of Turin, relevant to the history of the local university. It is an anonymous report, written in 1593, relative to the reasons for opposing the Jesuits’ attempt to obtain
Pietro Daniel Omodeo
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Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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Alessandro Valignano and the Restructuring of the Jesuit Mission in Japan, 1579-1582 [PDF]

, 2010
When Alessandro Valignano arrived in Japan in 1579, the Society of Jesus had been working in the country for thirty years. However, despite impressive numbers and considerable influence with the feudal lords, the mission was struggling.
Hoey, Jack B, III
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Winston Churchill and France: A Certain Ideal

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines relations between Winston Churchill and France. It argues that Churchill was sympathetic to France and, in particular, unusual among Englishmen of his generation in being sympathetic to its political system, but also that this sympathy did not make Churchill consistent in his relations with France.
Richard Vinen
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Xu Zongze’s Translation Theories and Practices in the Jesuit Revue Catholique

Religions
This paper examines the translation theories and practices of Xu Zongze 徐宗澤 (1886–1947), a key figure in the Jesuit community of the Zi-ka-wei compound 徐家匯.
Wei Mo
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Spiritual Manifest Destiny: B.A. Santamaria's Political Theology

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
This article offers a reading of B.A. Santamaria's political theology and its role in the making of contemporary Australian political imaginaries. The article charts the shifting targets of Santamaria's critique and activism, showing his departure from the perceived communist threat to a wide‐ranging attack on liberal and leftist social movements.
Clare Monagle
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The Jesuit Colleges that Weren't: Conewago Latin School and Guadalupe College

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal, 2023
This article offers a brief history of two obscure and often overlooked Jesuit schools from the nineteenth century: the Conewago Latin School in Pennsylvania and Guadalupe College in Texas.

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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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The Franciscan and the Jesuit: traditions of Brazilian education

Educação & Realidade, 2018
The Franciscan and the Jesuit are Western cultural traditions born in Europe and expanded to throughout the world. We have approached the circumstances of this presence in America and Brazil.
Luiz Fernando Conde Sangenis
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