Jesuit Rhetoric across Space and Time : Local and Global Perspectives /

Jesuit Rhetoric across Space and Time : Local and Global Perspectives /

A product of Renaissance educational thought, Jesuit rhetoric has trained generations of churchmen and lay citizens right up to the present day. This book aims to show the wealth of current international research on Jesuit rhetoric, in its pedagogical dimension (from sixteenth-century manuals to tod...

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Other Authors: Awianowicz, Bartosz (Editor), Brereton, John (Editor), Conte, Sophie (Editor), Gannett, Cinthia (Editor), Kraus, Manfred (Editor), Wright, Elizabethada (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026.
Jesuit Studies ; 49.

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Early Modern History.
History.

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Call Number: D410

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Foreword: the Meaning of Jesuit Rhetoric
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Editors and Contributors
  • Introduction: Jesuit Rhetoric across Space and Time: Local and Global Perspectives
  • Sophie Conte and Cinthia Gannett
  • Section 1 Rhetorical Theory and Education
  • 1 Cipriano Suárez' De arte rhetorica in Its Ratio studiorum Context
  • Lucía Díaz Marroquín
  • 2 Erasmus and the chria in De arte rhetorica dialogi quatuor (1611 and 1625) by Francisco de Castro, S.J.
  • María Violeta Pérez Custodio
  • 3 Quintilian's Amplification according to Martin Du Cygne's Ars rhetorica María Asunción Sánchez Manzano
  • 4 Metaphor and Rhetorical Theory in Francisco Leitão Ferreira's Nova Arte de Conceitos ( New Art of Concepts )
  • Belmiro Fernandes Pereira
  • 5 Rhetoric's Grey Eminence: Joseph de Jouvancy, S.J. (1643-1719) and His Influence on Jesuit Education
  • Manfred Kraus
  • 6 "The Same:" Mary Ward's Jesuit Rhetorical Tradition
  • Elizabethada A. Wright
  • 7 Grounded Tradition in a Flexible Present: Eloquentia Perfecta , Multimodal Composing, and Writing for the Greater Good
  • Renea Frey
  • Section 2 Jesuit Rhetoric in Practice: Esthetics, Politics and Theology
  • 8 Scordatura as Dispositio : Notation, Rhetorical Figure, and Visual Effect in Heinrich Biber's Mystery Sonatas (c.1680)
  • Malachai Komanoff Bandy
  • 9 "That Which Is Not to Be Shown:" Jesuit Letter-Writing in Colonial Sri Lanka
  • Josie Portz
  • 10 Jesuit Speeches of Thanks in France at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century: Louis Richeome and Louis de Cressolles
  • Sophie Conte
  • 11 Is There One Jesuit Style? The Example of Seventeenth-Century French Funeral Orations
  • Anne Régent-Susini
  • 12 Ut Theologia Rhetorica : Antônio Vieira and the Rhetorical-Theological Quandaries of the 1600s
  • Ana Lúcia de Oliveira
  • 13 Pathos in Action: Father Antônio Vieira on the Eyes' Liquid Voice
  • Maria Cecília de Miranda Nogueira Coelho
  • 14 Virtuous Imagining, Obedient Freedom: Theorhetoric in Ignatian Spirituality and Jesuit Political Theology
  • Steven Mailloux
  • Section 3 Influences, Dialogues and Missions
  • 15 Fray Louis of Granada: the Connection between Ordo Praedicatorum and Societas Iesu Ana Isabel Correia Martins
  • 16 Influence, Assimilation, Elision: Hebraic Sources of Jesuit Rhetoric
  • Deborah H. Holdstein
  • 17 Rhetoric in the Study Programs of Melanchthon and the Jesuit Ratio studiorum Hanne Roer
  • 18 Matteo Ricci's Tianzhu Shiyi : a Case for Including Dialectic in Comparative Rhetoric
  • Roberto S. Leon
  • 19 Influences of Jesuit Rhetoric on Orthodox Kyiv Elite in the Seventeenth Century: Stefan Javors'kyj-His Library and His Panegyrics
  • Bartosz Awianowicz
  • 20 Rhetoric Creates Grammar: Rodrigues the Japanese Grammarian Seen from Nineteenth-Century France
  • Aiko Okamoto-MacPhail
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index nominum.