The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews

Jesuits of Jewish Ancestry and Purity-Of-Blood Laws in the Early Society of Jesus
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17981-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 146, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 665 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

In The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews the author explains how Christians with Jewish family backgrounds went within less than forty years from having a leading role in the foundation of the Society of Jesus to being prohibited from membership in it. The author works at the intersection to two important historical topics, each of which attracts considerable scholarly attention but that have never received sustained and careful attention together, namely, the early modern histories of the Jesuit order and of Iberian “purity of blood” concerns.

An analysis of the pro- and anti-converso texts in this book (both in terms of what they are claiming and what their limits are) advance our understanding of early modern, institutional Catholicism at the intersection of early modern religious reform and the new racism developing in Spain and spreading outwards.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maryks, Robert Aleksander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations

Introduction

1. The Historical Context of Purity-of-Blood Discrimination (1391-1547)
Sentencia-Estatuto of Mayor Pero de Sarmiento (1449)
Alonso de Cartagena and Fray Alonso de Oropesa
Purity-of-blood Statutes of Archbishop Silíceo (1547)
Defensio Toletani Statuti of Bishop Diego de Simancas (1573)

2. Early Jesuit Pro-converso Policy (1540-72)
Ignatius of Loyola as a “deep spiritual Semite”
Jerónimo Nadal’s Opposition to the Purity-of-blood Legislation
The Converso Triumvirate: the Election of Diego Laínez
Francisco de Borja’s Infinite Love of Conversos

Chapter 3. Discrimination Against Jesuits of Jewish Lineage (1573-93)
Italo-Portuguese Anti-converso Lobby at General Congregation Three
Everard Mercurian’s “House Cleansing”
Memorialistas’ Revolt against Rome
Benedetto Palmio’s Converso-phobic Memorial
Claudio Acquaviva’s Discriminatory Measures

Chapter 4. Jesuit Opposition to the Purity-of-blood Discrimination (1576-1608)
Antonio Possevino
Diego de Guzmán
Pedro de Ribadeneyra
García Girón de Alarcón
Juan de Mariana

Conclusion
Appendix I
Appendix II
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert A. Maryks, Ph.D. (2006) History, Fordham University, is Associate Professor of History at Bronx CC of the City University of New York. He has published extensively on the history of Jesuits, including Saint Cicero and the Jesuits: The Influence of the Liberal Arts on the Adoption of Moral Probabilism (Ashgate, 2008) and The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews: Jesuits of Jewish Ancestry and Purity-of-Blood Laws in the Early Society of Jesus (Brill, 2009).