The Suppression of the Jesuits
I am eager to expand my bench of potential contributors to an edited
volume on the eighteenth-century suppression of the Jesuits. My
chapter on the suppression in Thomas Worcester’s Cambridge Companion
to the Jesuits (Cambridge, 2008) began with a lament: that a
satisfactory, modern, English-language account of this most intriguing
of historical events is yet to be written. The proposed volume will
hopefully bring us closer to this elusive goal.
Obvious subjects include but are not limited to:
— accounts of the various local suppressions: in France, Spain,
Portugal, their satellite territories and overseas possessions.
— the papal and curial politics that accompanied the process of
suppression
— the role of ambassadors in bringing the suppression to fruition
— the response of Jesuits to the suppression: perhaps most
interestingly, the strategies of survival employed by those who
suddenly found themselves to be ex-Jesuits
— the popular reaction to the suppression: polemic, newspaper
articles, visual media, etc
— the informal survival of Jesuit-based groups during the suppression
years
— the relationship between the suppression and the currents of
eighteenth-century thought
— the re-emergence of the Jesuit enterprise: Russia and America, etc.
— the historiographical legacy: what have historians made of the
suppression?
This list is neither prescriptive nor proscriptive and if any
colleagues feel that they could make a contribution to such a volume I
would ask them to contact me at jonathanwright123@googlemail.com
A summation of the proposed contribution (no more than 500 words) and
a digest of relevant publications, etc would be helpful.
Dr Jonathan Wright
5 Lakeston Close
Hartlepool
TS26 0LN
UK
Email: jonathanwright123@googlemail.com
volume on the eighteenth-century suppression of the Jesuits. My
chapter on the suppression in Thomas Worcester’s Cambridge Companion
to the Jesuits (Cambridge, 2008) began with a lament: that a
satisfactory, modern, English-language account of this most intriguing
of historical events is yet to be written. The proposed volume will
hopefully bring us closer to this elusive goal.
Obvious subjects include but are not limited to:
— accounts of the various local suppressions: in France, Spain,
Portugal, their satellite territories and overseas possessions.
— the papal and curial politics that accompanied the process of
suppression
— the role of ambassadors in bringing the suppression to fruition
— the response of Jesuits to the suppression: perhaps most
interestingly, the strategies of survival employed by those who
suddenly found themselves to be ex-Jesuits
— the popular reaction to the suppression: polemic, newspaper
articles, visual media, etc
— the informal survival of Jesuit-based groups during the suppression
years
— the relationship between the suppression and the currents of
eighteenth-century thought
— the re-emergence of the Jesuit enterprise: Russia and America, etc.
— the historiographical legacy: what have historians made of the
suppression?
This list is neither prescriptive nor proscriptive and if any
colleagues feel that they could make a contribution to such a volume I
would ask them to contact me at jonathanwright123@googlemail.com
A summation of the proposed contribution (no more than 500 words) and
a digest of relevant publications, etc would be helpful.
Dr Jonathan Wright
5 Lakeston Close
Hartlepool
TS26 0LN
UK
Email: jonathanwright123@googlemail.com