DOSSIER: Estudios Regionales

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Part of acts of Port-Royal dans la Réforme catholique 1609-1627. Conference 24-25 sept. 2009

Review essay

An unrealized project of the Jesuit church and college (1659) in Dubrovnik

Journal of the Institute of Art History (Zagreb)
  ISSN 0350-3437
  ISSN Online 1845-4534

 isusovačke - Trška Miklošić

 

Giulio Aleni S.J.

Translated from a German text (1966)

[Appendix: English annotated translation of Jingjiao tang beiji 景教堂碑記 (Stone Inscription for the Church of the Luminous Teaching [in Jiangzhou], ca. 1632), by Xu Guangqi].

[It contains Pasquale d’Elia’s annotated biobliography, pp. 36-61].
 

Memoria electrónica del XI Congreso Congreso Internacional (2003) de ALADAA ( ASOCIACIÓN LATINOAMERICANA DE ESTUDIOS DE ASIA Y ÁFRICA). Secretaría General de ALADAA. México. 2007

SJ in Brazil

Polgár (Roma: IHSI, 1990) #24549

full text (pdf)

[A. de Andrade, F. de Azevedo, B. de Gois, F de Georgis S.J.]

Mexico, SJ missions

Mexico, Bacerac mission

Jesuit Guarani missions

(Issue dedicated to: Epistolarios: correspondencia) - vol. 1999/2000

Same title as Begheyn bibl. 2006, nr. 774

Not in Polgár

Issue dedicated to: Firmissima convelli non posse: Homenaje al profesor Julián Gallego

Gaspar Castner S.J.; M.-F. Mastrilli S.J.

author probably student at SJ college Portugal,

Diego Calleja S.J.

Analysis of accounting treatises by Lodovico Flori SJ (1636) and Angelo Pietra OSB (1589)

This essay reviews Pirazzoli-t’Serstevens, Michèle, avec deux encadrés de Marco Musillo, Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766): Peintre et architecte à la cour de Chine (Paris: Thalia, 2007, 222 pp.) and gives an historical survey of Castiglione studies (with bibliography on pp. 407-409).

Appendix: pp. 409-412: Georg Robert Loehr (1892-1973?): A belated obituary (with bibliography on p. 412).
 

Języka - szkołach - łacińskiego- Nasza Przeszłość

Zespół - Kształtowanie  -  układu  - Nasza Przeszłość

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thematic issue: Diplomazia e politica della Spagna na Roma: figure di ambasciatori

Maria Antonietta Visceglia (ed.)

978-88-8368-102-8

In Polgár: AHSI 53, 1984 bibliography, #461

Not in Polgár

Sawā'ī

Eds: Miguel Juárez Gallejo and Rosario Paniagua Fernández

A quaterly published by the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente

pp. 306-312, appendix: Catalogue of the Chinese missionaries of the College of Naples (1714-1795): 51 names, with some biographical data: name (with Chinese characters), date of birth and death, native province, date of ‘vestitio’, date of departure for China, and province of mission; with reference to the main sources used and to the number of letters preserved in boxes and codices now kept at the College Archives of Naples (AsUNO). [Info: Ad Dudink]

... biográficas e bibliográficas de jesuítas portugueses na antiga Missão da China entre os séculos XVI e XVIII

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Pdf (Paper provided by University of Antwerp, Faculty of Applied Economics in its series Working Papers with number 2007007)

Maurice Potron (1872-1942) is a French Jesuit and mathematician whose main source of inspiration in economics is the encyclical Rerum Novarum. With virtually no knowledge in economic theory, he wrote down a linear model of production in which he formalized the notions of just prices and just wages. As early as 1911, he used the Perron-Frobenius theorem to prove the existence of a positive solution and established a duality result between the quantity side and the price side of the model. He returned to economics in the 1930s, but in both periods he failed to make a lasting impression upon economists.

Thematic issue: Matteo Ricci: tra vangelo e cultura

• F. Mignini, Dalla geometria alla teologia. Per una rilettura dell'opera missionaria di Matteo Ricci (201-216)
   
• M. Ferrero, Matteo Ricci, Cicerone e il concetto di "rito" nel confucianesimo (217-230)
   
• S. Hon Tai-fai, La via dell'amicizia e la lex orandi. Una lettura interculturale del Jiaoyou Lun di Matteo Ricci (231-258)
   
• E. Calvaresi, Quaestio de ritibus sinensibus: implicazioni storiche, politiche e culturali (259-272)
   
• E. Costa, La "predicazione" di Matteo Ricci (273-277)
   
• A. Maulo, "Conosci Li Madou?". Una demanda che interpella anche l'oggi (278-284)
   
• F. Mignini, La porta chiusa... e la lezione aperta sull'oggi (285-290)
   

Abstract (p. 129):
This contribution offers a first synthetic report on a comprehensive research program, which bears on the acquisition, the ciruclation and the use of Western books by the Jesuits in China in the 17th and 18th centuries. This research relies basically on contemporary testimonia, and discusses methodological questions with regard to their application. It tries to confront this information with the extant books of the Beitang collection (Beijing), and aims to a description, on this double basis, of the Jesuit reading patrimony, its patterns and main points of interest, all in relation to the ‘Sitz im Leben’ of the Jesuits in China. Apart from being a contribution to the study of the China mission and its intellectual and spiritual sources, it also contains a lot of observations bearing on the history of the European book market and its ‘expansion’ to this part of the ‘New World’.
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Jesuits in New France (Quebec)

Subtitle: El informe de las Misiones del Marañón del Padre Francisco de Figueroa de 1661.

Thematic issue:

• Alfonso Alfaro, Las formas del Espíritu (6)
• Carlo Martini, Los Ejercicios y la educación estética (8-15)
• Marc Fumaroli, Los jesuitas y la apologética de las imágenes sagradas (16-37)

• Michel de Certeau, El espacio del deseo (38-47)
   
• Perla Chinchilla, La predicación: arte de la Compañía de Jesús (48)
   
• Elisabetta Corsi, Furor Matematicus (50-61)
   
• Alfonso Alfara, La lumbre de la zarza: un arte entre ascética y mística (62-79)
   
• Jesuits:art and spirituality. A complete English version (81-107)
   

Thematic issue:

• Alfonso Alfaro, Los desafíos de la memoria (6)
   
• Alfonso Alfaro, La educación: los nudos de la trama (10-19)
   
• Luce Giard, Orígines de la enseñanza jesuita (20-35)
   
• Heinrich Pfeiffer, Los jesuitas: arte y espiritualidad (36-49)
   
• Pilar Gonzalho Aizpuru, La educación jesuita en la Nueva España (50-57)
   
• David Brading, La patria criolla y la Compañía de Jesús (58-71)
   
• Eliás Trabulse, La actividad científica de los jesuitas en la Nueva España (72-77)
   
• Guillermo Zermeño Padilla, La filosofía jesuita novohispana en perspectiva (78-87)
   
• Jesuit colleges. A complete English version (89-112)
   

Thematic issue:

• José Luis Bermeo, Las certezas de la imaginación (7)


•  Luce Giard, La actividad científica en la primera Compañia (8-19)


• Antonella Romano, Clavio: el surgimiento de la disciplina matemático (20-27)


•  Carlos Ziller Camenietzki, La ciencia barroca del padre Kircher (28-31)


•  Ugo Baldini, El encuentro con una teoría (32-35) [Boscovich, R. J.)


•  Belarmino y Galileo


• Elías Trabulse, Cosmología de los jesuitas novohispanos (38-45)


• Miguel León-Portilla, Los jesuitas y las lenguas indígenas de México (46-53)


• Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Los coadjutores y la ciencia aplicada (54-57)


• Alfonso Alfaro, La retórica de la experiencia (58-71)


• Jesuits and science. A complete English version (72-95)

Thematic issue:

• Alfonso Alfaro, La redondez de la tierra (6-7)
   
• Alfonso Alfaro, Hombres pardójicos. le experiencia de alteridad (8-27)
   
• Huang Xiang, La estrategia misionera en China (28-37)
   
• Antonio Menacho, Las reducciones de la Paracuaria (38-45)
   
• Charles Polzer, Misiones en el noroeste de México (46-55)
   
• Jean Meyer, El Gran Nayar (56-63)
   
• Miguel León-Portillo, Baja California: geografía de la esperanza (64-71)
   
• Ignacio del Río, La rebelión indígena de 1734 (72-73)
   
• Miguel Mathes, Cartas de jesuitas de las Californias, 1697-1767 (74-79)
   
• Jesuit missions. A complete English version (81-111)
   

Translation from Recherches de science religieuse 35 (1948) 290-299.

Tirso González de Santtalla SJ (1624-1705)

About Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz SJ (1859-1948)

Abstract:
The president of Beijing Imperial Astronomical Bureau, baron Hallerstein, was a Japanese Jesuit Provincial and Visitor for several decades. He never put his foot on Japanese soil, but he was always ready to learn as much about Japan as he could. Without visiting the Land of Rising Sun he gathered some relevant information about Japanese. Slovenian Hallerstein got some basic knowledge about Japan from the European books before he sailed for the Far East. In Beijing, the Koreans were his principal informers about Japan. Besides the Japanese religious circumstances, which were Hallerstein's official concern, he was mostly interested in the Japanese sciences, especially astronomy. The Beijing astronomer Hallerstein published more observations in Europe than any of his predecessors. The European scientists inquisitively expected his results because he used the best available European astronomical equipments.

This paper describes and explains the central role of the principle of contractual liberty with the Jesuits of the early modern period. Designed as a diptych, it intends to clarify how the legal and the moral philosophical tradition mutually enriched each other at the threshold of modernity. The 'ius commune' helped the Jesuits in formulating the idea of negative freedom, only for that 'ius commune' to undergo a transformation itself under the influence of the scientific account of contract law that the Jesuits were to develop on its basis. First it will be shown how the Jesuits arrived at a moral problem-solving method capable of freeing man from unduely burdensome obligations before the court of conscience through the application of the law of property and procedure. Secondly, this paper will highlight the turn towards positive freedom through the Jesuits' elaboration of a general doctrine of contract as a mutually accepted promise centered around the notions of liberty, consensualism, and the image of the will as a private legislator.

(trad. dall’inglese di Sacra Dieci).

Edición digital a partir de 1616 : Anuario de la Sociedad Española de Literatura General y Comparada, Vol. III (1980), pp.27-40.

Via Cervantes.virtual.com

José María Blanco, S.J. (1878-1957)

João Mendes, S.J. (1910-1972)

Foremost about Jesuit army chaplains in Modern times

In examining the principle characteristics of Ricci’s missionary strategy, the article seeks to show how the fruit of his method was the interaction between the “I” and the “other” that is, between the missionary and the Chinese people. Adaptation to the Chinese culture was heavily influenced by Confucianism, which lead the Jesuits to distance themselves from the Buddhists. Their insertion among the higher classes was to gain influential support in order to penetrate Chinese mentality. The use of science in the propagation of the faith was preferred by the great interests that Chinese scholars had for science. Finally, a look into the acceptance of Confucian rites (especially funeral ones), which the Jesuits considered civil rites, was facilitated also on the part of the Chinese. The author is a professor of Chinese studies in the Catholic University of Louvain.

Abstract (p. 275): Using letters written by the Italian Jesuit missionary Niccolo Longobardo, this article explores in depth the encounter between the Christian mission and different strata of early seventeenth century Chinese society in Shangdong province. It follows Longobardo’s evangelical activities among Ming feudatory princes, Muslim mullahs, Confucian literati and leaders of secret popular religious sects. By using Jesuit records and Chinese documents of the late Ming, this article tries to analyse the attractions of Christianity for different segments of late Ming society, one that experienced a profound social, political and economic crisis. Both, the reasons for conversions and arguments against Christianity are presented in the specific social context of early seventeenth century Chinese society.

Article in daily

Special issue dedicated to Matteo Ricci, on the occasion of the 1610-2010 anniversary. Some articles in Italian and Chinese.

In Chinese -- English abstract, pp. 157f.

The interaction and exchange between Zhang Huang, Li Zhi, Zhu Shilu, Jiao Hong, Zou Yuanbiao and Feng Yingjing from the Wang Yangming School and Matteo Ricci. The friendship and exchange between Ricci and the Yangming School had according to the author two implications: 1. it established the practice of progressive academic exchange between Ricci and the literati; 2. the growth of foreign culture came to rely on the support of the corresponding local culture and figures in academic circles.

This paper discusses the Ming Jesuit Alfonso Vagnoni's 'Shengmu xingshi' or 'Vita of the Virgin Mary,' a work that places special emphasis on the 'Mariale' or miracles of Mary, and which is generally considered the first biography of Mary in Chinese. Although it is difficult to pinpoint the exact sources of Vagnoni's depiction of the 'Mariale', this paper identifies several popular collections of Mary's miracles dating from the European Middle Ages which may have influenced the author. Surprisingly, the first model of the Faustian stories, together with other literary motifs in the history of European literature, can be found in this three-juan life of Mary, which was put into Chinese in 1631. In addition to Mary's role as Jesus' mother, three other aspects of the Virgin receive prominent attention in Vagnoni's work: First, Mary assumes the role of the Intercessor between her followers and Jesus or God; Second, she plays the role of the jealous bride who refuses any comparison of her beauty to that of other women; and finally, Mary appears as a Western counterpart to Guanyin, the son-giver, a role that is often overlooked in the European 'Mariale' tradition. This paper argues that the three roles Mary assumes in Vagnoni's Chinese rendition were shaped by changing theological and social circumstances from the first century through the Ming. 'Shengmu xingshi', the first biography of Mary in the history of China, thus takes on pivotal significance both from a theological and from a literary standpoint.

Augustin Hallerstein (1703-1774) was the last astronomer sent to Beijing by the Society of Jesus. He left Europe for China in his mid-thirties, and continued to send letters back home until he died thirty-five years later. These letters and reports contained important information on Chinese astronomy, and were read in the courts of Europe; many were also published. Hallerstein was one of the most important European astronomers in Beijing, his European publications surpassing those of his predecessors.
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See also in this volume: Proceedings  of Sixty-Fourth Annual Convention (Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 4-7, 2009)

• Patricia A. Parachini, Spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola (104-105)


• Barbara Sain, Hans Urs von Balthasar Society (144-145)


• Ann Riggs, Karl Rahner Society (148-149)

about Joseph Thomas, S.J. (1915-1992)

Thematic issue: A expulsão dos Jesuítas - 250 anos - 1759-2009

• António Vaz Pinto, 250 anos da expulsão dos Jesuítas - 1759-2009 (111-112)


• Zília Osório de Castro, Sob o signo da unidade. Regalismo vs. Jesuitismo (113-134)


• Tiago C.P. dos Reis Miranda, Memória por alvará: registos legais / momnuimentos políticos (135-148)


• António Júlio Limpo Trigueiros, "O Negócio jesuítico" e o papel da política regalista portuguesa (149-167)


• Miguel Real, Padre Gabriel Malagrida e o Marquês de Pombal (169-189)


• Mar García Arenas, Ecos de uma expulsão: paralelismos e divergências no desterro dos jesuítas ibéricos (191-207)


• Mariagrazia Russo, O ensino linguístico dos Jesuítas e a oposição no Século das Luzes (209-224)


• Ana Leitão, O significado da expulsão dos jesuítas na educação brasileira (225-237)


• Maria de Lurdes Craveiro, O espaço jesuítico em Coimbra - em torno da expulsão e depois (239-253)


• Carlos A. Martínez Tornero, Estudo comparativo sobre a aplicação das temporalidades espanholes e portuguesas (255-270)


• Inmaculada Fernández Arrillaga, O desamparo dos Jesuítas Portugueses durante o seu desterro nos Estados Pontifícios (271-285)


• Miguel Corrêa Monteiro, O pagamento das côngruas aos Jesuítas portugueses exilados em Itália no reinado de D. Maria I (287-314)


• Antonio Astorgano Abajo, Para uma periodização da literatura dos jesuítas portugueses expulsos (1759-1814) (315-336)


• Carlos Cabecinhas, Manuel de Azevedo, S.J. -- um illustre exilado (1713-1796) (337-347)


• José Eduardo Franco; Christine Vogel, Um acontecimento mediático na Europa da Luzes: A propaganda antijesuítica pombalina em Portugal e na Europa (349-505)

Abstract: This article discusses the Chinese perception of European perspective, which was brought to China by the Jesuits in the seventeenth century and was closely associated with the broader missionary and cultural frameworks. Based on the sources illustrating Chinese responses, this study argues that the central factor of these Chinese responses indicates a perception of perspective on a technical level, and that the Chinese impression reveals a complex of illusion and realism caused by this level, which may have demonstrated a profound perception in the realm of religion. Illusion should point to a psychological and anthropological view of this perception, rather than to a question of scientific objectivity.

Manuel Dias S.J. (1559-1639)

Excerpt of diss. for the doctorate in the Fac. of Theology, Pontifical Università Gregoriana. Published in volume 6, as supplement 1 of year 2006 of Studia Laurentiana (ISSN 1643-1871).

Library of Lyceum Hosianum, Braunsberg/Braniewo

ISSN 1867-4291

Arrupe

English abstract, p. 142

D. Sacré & J. Papy (eds.),

The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola in the China Mission of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Ignatius' Exercises played a much greater role in the China mission than so far expected. There was a great variety in the concrete ways in which they were put into practise. Initially Matteo Ricci used the first week of the Exercises with individual retreatants. Later Giulio Aleni gave the Exercises by way of illustrations in the Fujian Province and Prospero Intorcetta translated the Exercises into Chinese. In the eighteenth century, the French Jesuits led group retreats and missionaries and Chiense Jesuits wrote specialised treatises for meditations during eight or ten-day retrats and during daily life. The variety of these developments shows that from the outset the Jesuits and their Chinese converts put a lot of effort into spritual education and practice by means of the Spiritual Exercises.

The article explores the receptive potential of Evangelicae Historiae Imagines (Antwerp, 1593) in the context of Buddhist devotional culture in China.

Godefridus Wandelman S.J. (1590-1654)

The cult of the dragon in China, which expressed itself not only in the ritual sacrifices to the dragon kings during drought and floods but also in the rationalization of the dragon's power to make rain by many serious thinkers from diverse intellectual persuasions, was first subjected to sustained criticism during the early modern era as part of an "enlightenment" drive against popular cults and "superstitions" led by some of the Jesuit-inspired Chinese scholars. This paper examines how these critics drew on Aristotelian conceptions of nature and meteorological theories introduced by the Jesuit missionaries to attack the core ideas of the traditional dragon lore and their underlying cosmology. It argues that the de-animated and rigidly stratified view of nature articulated by this small but clearly discernable group of Chinese critics can be seen as marking the beginning of the decline of the dragon, the allegedly semi-divine aquatic animal which swims, walks, flies, and makes rain.

Part of article deals with Anglo-Jesuit influences on Stanihurst.

(Martino Martini and Juan Caramuel, the Grammatica Linguae Sinensis in the Diocesan Archive of Vigevano) presented during a conference (The XVIIth Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies) in August 2008 in Lund, Sweden

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Rahner

paper, updated in 2008, published on-line via enssib

Short biography of Sichelbarth, since 1745 in Beijing.
 

Article written in collaboration with, and as a sequel to an earlier article by Luk Van de Sijpe. Sample of provenance research about a rare Canisius volume: Notae in evangelicas lectiones (Fribourg : Gemperlin, 1693), donated as a prize book in the Jesuit college of Liège in 1664 to Godfried Vandenvenne.

Deals with the French (1688), Spanish (1691), Dutch (1694) abd Italian  (1701) editions of this book by Couplet.

Social frame of missionary mobility of European Jesuits, with focus on Milan.

New article on the Sambiasi map (c. 1639) with a detailed study of the different versions, with nice colourprint illustrations.
 

From the abstract: The Jesuit Mission Press in Japan produced documents relating to the missionary work performed y the SJ in Japan from the 16th to the early 17th c. Some of these documents contain Chinese and Japanese characters, using Jap. hiragana variants and uninterrupted writing. Scholars assume that these documents reproduced the appearance of original manuscripts by using hiragana typography and ligatures. In principle, these ligatures were used for high-frequency character strings; however, there were some exceptions. For instance, metal type production efficiency, ligature substitute for Chinese characters. In particular, ligatures in these documetns contribute to the punctuation of words. This linguistic function is derived from paying attention to the particle position.

Matteo Ricci has long been celebrated as one of the greatest mediators between Europe and East Asia. To see his extraordinary experience in China from a different perspective, this article takes a close look at the many intricacies that either led to or resulted from his reliance on accommodation as an evangelizing policy. These intricacies made him both remarkably successful in what he did not necessarily plan to do and noticeably unsuccessful in what he single-mindedly set out to accomplish. (Info: Ad Dudink)

Abstract:

Hailed by some as a precursor of modern economic analysis, Leonardus Lessius (1554-1623) might have been in the vanguard of a paradigm shift in early modern economic thought. From his treatment of a case of conscience dealing with information and just pricing known as “The Merchant of Rhodos” emerges a stunning approval of profit-making based on cunning exploitation of a dominant knowledge position. In the present article, Lessius’ discussion of this case will be examined and set against the background of late scholastic economics. I will argue that by consistently applying a legalistic doctrine of the just price, Lessius both fulfilled and partly outgrew the scholastic paradigm in economic thought. His elaborations reflect the idea of the market as an increasingly impersonal game in which, among their peers, prudent businessmen should be allowed to gain from their clever insight into market mechanisms.

Jesuit mission in Ethiopia

Umschau, Zu einem Sammelband über sein Leben und Werk

Discusses a.o. Ricci's Tianzhu shiyi and the "Tianzhujiao Christian Thought from China"

Abstract:
Beginning in the last decade of the seventeenth century, the French Jesuits Joachim Bouvet and Dominique Parrenin instructed the Kangxi Emperor in contemporary anatomical knowledge. Parrenin's instruction resulted in a Manchu anatomical atlas containing Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood. This paper uses this case to examine the role of anatomy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European understandings of China and its medicine. I argue that the authority which Bouvet and Parrenin afforded anatomical knowledge gained from dissection informed their comparisons of Chinese and European medical learning. I also examine ways in which illustrations of this atlas were made to demonstrate the certainty of European anatomy and its applicability to Chinese bodies. Production of the ‘Manchu Anatomy’ was thus an important moment in the process through which anatomy became a category in European understandings of China and its medicine during and after the eighteenth century.
 

Sixth volume of the journal, dedicated to the Jesuit Society.



 

English summary, pp. ii-iii.
About Japanese painters from the Kano school (16th and 17th c.) who borrowed the Western technique of painting surfaces with gold leaf, esp. the paintings with the Virgin and Child, from the missionaries, esp. Gaspar Vilela S.J. (since 1559).

ISSN 0210-1629

ISBN 978-7-80254-047-7, Beijing: Zongjiao wenhua chubanshe

English abstract

Not in Polgár

Dealing with Toletus, Pereira, Suarez, Fonseca

Not in Polgár

starting from the work of José de Acosta

On correspondence Leibniz-Bouvet.

Not in Polgár

This paper discusses the significance of developing and 

updating personal name authority records for individuals who 

are referred to by their bi- or multi-lingual works. 

This work is based on a case study of OCLC 

(Online Computer Library Center)'s name authority records of 

well-known Jesuits who played a unique role in the cultural 

exchange between Europe and China during the sixteenth through 

eighteenth centuries. It is concluded that using ready 

reference works to develop thematic personal name authority 

records is feasible and will facilitate international resource 

sharing. Overseas Chinese librarians play an important role in 

this endeavour. It is hoped that the findings in this study 

will raise awareness of this important issue so that more 

overseas Chinese librarians will participate in implementing 

cooperative name authority projects at local, national, 

and/or international levels.

about the secret documents of the Calendar Case

Deutsche China-Gesellschaft Mitteilungsblatt (Bulletin of the German China Association) 2/2008:

 

Unpublished
see: pdf-file

Not in Polgár

Jesuits in Peru

ISSN 0223-5099
410 p.) (88 ref.), [Notes: ref. et notes dissem.,Publié à l'occasion d'un colloque organisé en mai 2000 par le Groupe de recherches sur les missions ibériques modernes]

From the abstract: Analysis of the maps of China made by Europeans from
16th to 18th c. kept in the Staatsbibliothek Berlin. Discusses the European images of China and the basic characteristics and the  variations of three dominant models for making maps of China in the history of modern European cartography. Examines the phenomenon of copying a map again and again with some variations.

Abstract (p. 417): Around 1716, the French astronomer and academician Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688-1768) took up a new project: the twinned topics of Chinese chronology and astronomy. Unable to access Chinese sources and not knowing any fellow savants who shared this particular interest, Delisle methodically made extracts and compiled data from the existing European literature. Among Delisle's papers at the Observatoire de Paris still exist the results of this research, including a list of the books he found relevant. This paper develops a close reading of Delisle's notes from this period to stage his journey into a recondite arena of technical and textual analysis, and to examine the scholarly practices and generic conventions through which early modern European savants confronted the Chinese astronomical tradition.

Keywords: ... Society of Jesus, missionaries, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle,..., Athanasius Kircher, ..., Martino Martini,... Philippe Couplet, ..., Johann Schreck, Johannes Kepler, ... Nicolas Trigault,..., Matteo Ricci, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Ferdinand Verbiest a.o.

Kałuža

Annual journal dedicated to the study of traditional and modern East Asian science, technology, and medicine
Special issue

Annual journal dedicated to the study of traditional and modern East Asian science, technology, and medicine
Special issue  

Double thematic number: "What makes Ignatian spirituality distinctive?" 17 articles

ISSN 1851-9091

Abstracts：There is a constant "localization" process in the spread of Catholic in Late Ming China. Tianzhu jiangsheng chuxiang jingjie (a heurmenutics of texts on the birth of Lord) is a Chinese woodcut engraving book of the Italian missionary, Jiulio Aleni. This work takes the life story of Jesus from Gospels, and it follows a popular style of woodcut engraving comic books in late Ming dynasty. In this work, Aleni not only follows Matteo Ricci's tradition of "academic Missionaries", but also began to seek for "accommodation" with the local literati culture of Fujian. The images and language in this book are familiar to Chinese readers, so it could be easy to spread from all classes of believers to the non-believers. The use of local media reflects a deeper understanding of "localization" principle, and it also reflects the new attempts of Jesuit toward "popularization".

[ Translated from Zhongguo bijiao wenxue (Comparative Literature
in China), 2006, (1): 72–83 by YANG Zhiyi, Dept. of East Asian
Studies, Princeton University. ]
Abstract:
Many Chinese believe that France is a “romantic” nation though
they may offer different answers to the question “why”.
A recent source study shows that this image comes from the
travel note written by a French priest Julie Aleni when he
took a mission in China, from Wonders in the Voyage and
Traveling around Europe and America by Zhang Deyi, a Chinese
diplomat in France at that time and from Travel Notes by Wang
Tao. Therefore, many Chinese modern writers borrowed this image
to their works. Hence it has been created as a set image in
the intertextual context of cultural homogeneity and
heterogeneity.
Therefore, this paper is intended to trace the signs of these
cultural interactions so as to see how “Romantic France” has
come to be a set image in Chinese culture.

Louis-Bertrand Castel S.J.

Includes many jesuitica items:
 

Historia spiritualitatis: Societas Iesu (#5739-5759)

Hagiographia: Hurtado (5833-5838), de Loyola (6102-6130), Xavier (6063-6072)

Biographia: von Balthasar (6621-6689), de Certeau M. (6914-6916), Dupuis J. (6940-41), Ellacuria J. (6961-62), Lonergan  B. (7315-7324), López-Gay J. (7325-26), de Lubac H. (7328-7334), Martini Carlo (7406-07), Rahner K. (7535-7596), Teilhard de Chardin (7742-7755)

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Never in Polgár. Full thesis however in Polgár, AHSI 54 (1985), #249.

About Canisianum, Innsbruck

Missio Hollandica is larger than just the Jesuits' missio hollandica.

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Jesuit school at Stanley Grange, near West Hallam (south-east Derbyshire).

Abstract (p. 44):
This essay explores the dual nature of Giuseppe Castiglione\'s career. As a professional trained artist and Lay Brother, from 1715 to 1766 Castiglione was deployed through the Jesuit Order in the Qing workshops. My analysis of Castiglione\'s unique career is based predominantly on an unpublished manuscript source, the Jesuit posthumous memoir of the artist, today in the main archive of the Order in Rome. The memoir describes Castiglione\'s professional engagement between his European and Chinese patrons who supported and supervised his work: the Jesuit Order, and the mid-Qing Emperors. Far from being just the description of an individual career, the memoir sheds light on important aspects of the early modern cultural interchange between Europe and China, as well as on the eighteenth-century European missionary strategy in Asia.

[ Musillo\'s doctoral dissertation (University of East Anglia, 2006), is entitled: "Bridging Europe and China: The Professional Life of Giuseppe Castiglione (1688–1766)" ]

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Lists the contents of the archives of the Archivum Provinciae Belgicae Septentrionalis (ABSE) (in Dutch). See item on News section for more details about contacting the archives.

abstract :

Kangxi (r. 1662-1722), the second rule of the Manchu Qing dynasty (1644-1911), turned Beijing into a centre of learning, striving in particular to integrate Western learning with Chinese learning, and the sciences with scholarship. At the same time, when Louis XIV sent Jesuit mathematiciens to the emperor of China in 1685, his intention was to turn the Paris Académie royale des sciences into a centre towards which knowledge from all the world, including China, was to converge; this turned Beijing into a relay point on a world map centred in Paris. The imperial capital thus played a role in two projects of construction of universal knowledge, configured very differently. Some exchanges between the two projects did occur, bearing witness to the mutual recognition of the new products of the circulation of knowledge.

The English College in Valladolid was administered by the Jesuits. Martyrs Thomas Garnett S.J. and Henry Walpole S.J. got some formation at the college.

This paper reviews Xu Guangqi and Matteo Ricci’s translation of The Elements 
of Geometry and attempts to analyze their translation activity in three
aspects, proposed by André Lefevere, namely “ideology”, “patronage” and
“poetics”. From the historical point of view, Xu Guangqi，assisted by
Matteo Ricci, introduced western geometry concepts and scientific ideas
to Chinese people by translating The Elements of Geometry.
Nevertheless, in the process of translation, they were greatly influenced b
by the ideology, patronage and poetics in the Ming Dynasty. This paper,
guided by André Lefevere’s theory, ventures to propose the reasons why
Xu Guangqi and Matteo Ricci chose to translate the scientific works
but not the works in other fields; why they particularly singled out
Elements as the first piece of scientific works for translation in
China and finally why they translated only six volumes of the works
and left the other nine out? Tentative answers to these questions are:
(1) Scientific works were translated for the sake of reversing the
form-centered Li theory and arousing the practical learning among the
literati.
(2) The translation of Elements was encouraged by the patronage (in this
case, the publication system of the Ming Dynasty) and was also a choice
favored by the patron (in this case, Xu Guangqi).
(3) The translation of the first six volumes of Elements resulted from
the dominant poetics, imposing pressure on Ricci, who was not sure
about the acceptability of the translated works, so he wanted to
translate the first six volumes as a prying attempt.
 
Info: A. Dudink

Matteo Ricci’s selection of source texts and strategies in his translation of western learning: a perspective from the linguistic adaptation theory),
Abstract:
Drawing from Jef Verschuren’s theory of linguistic adaptation, 
this paper analyzes the selection of source texts and translation
strategies in Matteo Ricci’s translation of Western learning. 
The authors hold that like other types of verbal communication, 
translation is a continuous choice-making process. 
The translator should adapt to the communicative context and the 
audience he faces, and should select source texts and translation 
strategies accordingly. This is exactly what Matteo Ricci did 
when he undertook to translate Western classics into Chinese. 
His choice of source texts was geared to the needs of the Chinese 
intellectuals in the late Ming Dynasty, and his selection of translation 
strategies was adapted to what he perceived as the Chinese cultural 
traditions.
 

Paper at MedAsia's First Conference, September 2006,  published via Reseau-Asie

Review article of cd set:  Kapsberger-Zipoli "Jesuit Operas".

Zipoli, Domenico S.J. (1688-1726); Schmid, Martin S.J. (1694-1772)

In Japanese

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Numéro spécial: janvier-mars 2008/1

Actes du séminaire de l'IRPMF (2002-2005), avec des contributions de Carine Barbafieri, Christine Bayle, Jean-Marc Civardi, Marie Demeilliez, Nathalie Lecomte, Laura Naudeix, Anne Piéjus et Thomas Vernet.

Contents:
3-8: Anne Piéjus, Introduction. Entre archéologie et recréation
9-17: Anne Piéjus, Un spectacle collectif
19-26: Jean-Marc Civardi, Du secret tragique au silence harpocratique : Polymestor et Sigalion
27-39: Carine Barbafieri et Laura Naudeix, Polymestor à l'épreuve du secret : l'efficacité du regard
41-55: Laura Naudeix, Le ballet de Sigalion : la tradition au service de la jeunesse
57-75: Marie Demeilliez, Les airs instrumentaux de Pascal Collasse
77-83: Nathalie Lecomte, Messieurs les " Acteurs dansans" : essai pour percer les secrets d'une distribution
85-93: Anne Piéjus et Christine Bayle, Le ballet de Sigalion, des sources à la création
95-105: Thomas Vernet, "Le divertissement ne sçauroit manquer de plaire". Conditions d'exécution et réception de Sigalion ou le secret
109-117: Annexe I-Programmes français de Polymestor puis de Sigalion
118-153: Annexe 2-Textes divers autour de l'oeuvre
155-163: Jean-Marc Civardi,"De la tradition harpocratique"