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This article analyses the role of missionaries in the construction of the Iberian presence in Japan, highlighting their links with European merchants and their involvement in the commercial networks of the China Sea. The missionaries invested in the silk trade through the Macau ship, which operated...

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This article explores the relationships between the concepts of lingua franca and «tapuya» (those who do not speak the lingua franca) in Jesuit writings from the State of Maranhão and Grão Pará in the 17th and 18th centuries, and in the articles of Rafael Bluteau’s Vocabulario Portuguez & Latino...

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The Jesuits who undertook missionary work in rural areas of Italy hardly ever explicitly addressed the issue of linguistic communication. However, there are sources from which it is possible to reconstruct their awareness of the problems posed by such communication. Italy in the Modern Age was a pat...

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Dialogos en guarani is the spanish title embossed on the spine label of a beautifully bound, gilt-edged monolingual guarani manuscript of 283 pages and 88 chapter headlines. This perfectly well kept manuscript has been identified by ANR LANGAS project team in a library of Luján (Argentina) in may 20...

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The drawings made by Ignacio Tirsch (1733-1781) are part of the Jesuit missionary work in the northern New Spain. Today we can find some of these drawings illustrating specialized books or advertising campaigns on Baja California. However, some questions remain open about their production context of...

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The Theology of the Hutterite (Habanese) Community of Alwinz. The Hutterites of Alwinz came under the scrutiny of the Viennese court and the Jesuit order in the mid-18th century, especially the coercive proselytizing mission led by the Jesuit friar Delphini of Nitra. The primary intention was to di...

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The linguistic situation in 16th-century Brazil was divergent, with a dominant indigenous tongue on the coast and multiple tongues among the tribes of the interior. This article analyses the different stages whereby the dominant indigenous language of the coast became the lingua franca of Brazil: ac...

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There is unanimous agreement that Jose Monino's work as ambassador in Rome was decisive for the downfall of the Company of Jesus. And yet the process was complete by the end of the ambassador's first hundred days in the Eternal City, only minor issues remaining to be settled, which detaine...

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This paper comprises two parts, a longue durée interpretative historical synthesis that examines the Jesuits’ transformative vision of education, and a digital interactive map that visualizes the globality of their educational enterprise (https://theirgroup.org/Jesuits/map/). The Jesuits’ vision of...

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Péter Nemeshegyi SJ Interpreter of the Scripture The one hundredth birthday of Péter Nemeshegyi SJ was celebrated with a conference by members of the Hungarian Jesuit order on 25 March 2023. On this occasion, I was asked to appraise this excellent theologian as the interpreter of the Bible. One o...

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This article proposes an anthropology and regressive history of the impact of the triple Alliance war, based on ethnography, interviews in guarani and archive’s investigation in Misiones, a Paraguayan region. More than 130 years after the end of the war, family’s stories and genealogies deeply shows...

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This paper is devoted to studying manuscript «Wang U Dzhin Yuan or the True Source of All Creatures or the Book on the True Source of All Creatures». The manuscript is a Russian translation of the text «萬物 真 原» (On the true origin of all things), a Christianian catechism written in Chinese language...

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The influence of Confucian ideas on intellectual life in Russia of the XVIII century has not been studied enough and needs more detailed research. This paper is about the research of text “Description of life of Confucius, head of Chinese philosophers”. The purpose of the article is to identify the...

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The interests of Catholic Europe for seventeenth-century China are clearly established, especially through the role that Jesuits missionaries played in the production of knowledge on the Middle empire from their arrival at the end of the sixteenth century. The collapse of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644...

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The main aim of this article is to introduce and analyse the specific – and in the discourse of history of science hitherto largely neglected – subject of historia naturalis as it is found in letters sent in the 17th and 18th century by Jesuits of the Province of Bohemia, such as Simón de Castro (Ši...

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William Clark’s methodological tools applied to the study of the history and philosophy of higher education are presented in a series of articles 1996-2003 and especially in his book “Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University” (2006). The last was a result of Clark’s long and accu...

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Les Jésuites missionnaires dans les aires rurales italiennes n’affrontent presque jamais, de manière explicite, le sujet de la communication linguistique. Cependant, les sources permettent de reconstruire la conscience de facto du problème et les solutions repérées et fixées : les missionnaires pren...

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This article aims to analyze the presence of books in Guarani language within the libraries of the Jesuit Paraguay and, specially, within the reductions of Paraná and Uruguay rivers. For this purpose, the inventories of the goods made after the expulsion of the Jesuits from the Hispanic monarchy (17...

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