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This book explains not who the Jesuits were, but how their awareness of having become Jesuits was constructed. It does so on the basis of a collection of documents which have often been referred to as ‘autobiographies’, in fact individual members’ accounts of how they received their calling. Each Jesuit had to describe in writing how the divine call had come to him, what signs had preceded it and how he had broken away from his ‘fleshly’ family to become a member of the Company.
Their acute awareness of the definitive nature of the close pact they had established with God by becoming members of the army of the Lord, made the Jesuits new, unusual figures, unprecedented in the history of Christian religious orders: men trained to carry out arduous missions into the most distant countries of the world, in contact with unknown cultures, without any weakening of their ties with the Company; a classic case is Matteo Ricci. Accepting their calling meant adopting a special life, characterized by a modern form of asceticism: a total break with the past and their families, a readiness to go wherever they were sent, as new apostles.
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Adriano Prosperi, after completing his education in Pisa, at the University and Scuola Normale, taught Early Modern History at the Universities of Bologna and Pisa. In 2003 he was appointed professor of Early Modern History at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.
His interests lay especially in the History of Reformation and Counter-Reformation, with special reference to the Council of Trent, the Inquisition, Catholic Missions and theological doctrines.
He has developed a new field of located interest that can be located between anthropology and historiography, the disciplines on death and the self, with special focus on the history of the death penalty in Ancien Regime Europe. Since 1989 he has been a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome).
Foreign translations: Crime and Forgiveness. Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe (Harvard University Press), Infanticide, Secular Justice, and Religious Debate in Early Modern Europe (Brepols), Dar a alma (Companhia das Letras), Die Gabe der Seele (Suhrkamp Verlag), El Concilio de Trento (Junta de Castilla y Leon), Justice Blindfolded. The Historical Course of an Image (Brill).
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- Publisher Giulio Einaudi Editore
- Publication Date April 2016
- Orginal LanguageItalian
- ISBN/Identifier 9788806228453
- Publication Country or regionItaly
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 30 EUR
- Pages250
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleLa vocazione: storie di gesuiti tra Cinquecento e Seicento
- Copyright Year2016
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