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The Jesuits II : cultures, sciences, and the arts, 1540-1773 / Jesuits 2 Jesuits two edited by John W. O'Malley ... [et al.]. - Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2006. - xxxvi, 905 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm. + 1 videodisc

Essays originally presented as papers at a conference held in 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. The Society in society -- Pt. 2. The visual arts and the arts of persuasion -- Pt. 3. Scientific knowledge, the order of nature, and natural theology -- Pt. 4. Music, theatre, and the uses of performance -- Pt. 5. The overseas missions: challenges and strategies -- Pt. 6. Expulsions, suppressions, and the surviving remnant -- Appendix: Jesuit opera in seventeenth-century Vienna: Patientis Christi memoria by Johann Bernhard Staudt (1654-1712).

ISBN: 0802038611 (alk. paper) 9780802038616

LCCN: 2006280170

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 20059016833

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Jesuits--History--Congresses.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Christianity and culture--Congresses.

LC Class. No.: BX3706.3 / .J48 2006