The Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. Hardcover. Black buckram with gold spine lettering. Bw dj with color image and bw lettering. 772 pp. with occasional bw images, numbered by chapter. VG+/VG-. Clean and tight with only light shelf wear on dj. Item #166122
ISBN: 9780802042873
Thirty-five essays examine the worldwise Jesuit undertaking in music, art, architecture, devotional writing, mathematics, astronomy, physics, natural history, public performance, and education, giving special attention to the Jesuits' interaction with non-European cultures in North American, China, India, and the Philippines. Focuses on the "Old Society" Jesuits - the Society before its suppression by papal edict in 1773. Reprint from 1999.
OCLC: 968687976
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