Political Agents and Cultural Mediators: : Jesuit Procurators in a Globalizing World (16th–18th Centuries) / edited by Alexandre Coello de la Rosa and Fabian Fechner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fechner, Fabian, editor.

Rosa, Alexandre Coello de la, editor.

Series:

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026.

Jesuit Studies ; 52.

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026

Jesuit Studies ; 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Book History and Cartography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (473 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Jesuit Procurators in a Globalizing World (16th–18th Centuries)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume traces the complex, global-scale circulation of procurators as non-state cosmopolitan agents, along with the movement of goods and knowledge, across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa, on a scale that was, for the first time, truly global. The provincial congregations and their respective procurators ( procuratores provinciae ) emerged as key figures within the complex administrative structures of the Society of Jesus, operating between Rome and the provinces, particularly in overseas territories. Their activities at the Roman curia challenged the traditionally centralized and hierarchical vision of the Jesuit order, as these procurators positioned themselves as influential diplomatic agents in key decision-making processes.

Contents:

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction

Alexandre Coello de la Rosa and Fabian Fechner

Part 1 Mediators and Agents in the Circulation of Material Culture

1 Jesuit Shipments and Their Secrets

Eighteenth-Century Circulation of Religious Objects and Material Culture from Europe to the Spanish American Viceroyalties

Luisa Elena Alcalá and Vanina Scocchera

2 The Procurators of the China Mission to Europe: on Global Arts and Taste (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Cristina Osswald

Part 2 Recruitment of Missionaries and the Design of Jesuit Propaganda

3 Procurators in Europe

A Connected History of the Missionary Provinces of the Society of Jesus in Early Seventeenth-Century Peru and the Philippines

Alexandre Coello de la Rosa and Aliocha Maldavsky

4 From China to Europe and Back: the Power and Promises of Jesuit Procurators in the Early Modern Period

Elisa Frei

5 The Thread that Binds: Luis de Morales, S.J., Missionary and Procurator of the Philippines (1668–90)

Alexandre Coello de la Rosa

Part 3 Mechanisms of Communication, Management, and Decision-Making

6 Missionary Style and Written Production: the Jesuit Procurators in the Making of Early Global Paraguay

Fabián R. Vega and Guillermo Wilde

7 The Challenges and Goals of Procurators Traveling between China and Europe

Frederik Vermote

8 Silver and Silk: the Financial and Commercial Activities of the Jesuit Procurator in Japan (Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries)

Hélène Vu Thanh

Part 4 Global Mediators, Agents, and Entrepreneurs

9 News from the Peruvian Province: a Jesuit Procurator Navigating the Empire

Carlos Gálvez Peña

10 Mediation and Fidelity: the Jesuit Lorenzo de Arizábalo and the Mercedarian Ramón de Morales (Santiago–Madrid, 1666–70)

Rafael Gaune Corradi and José Araneda Riquelme

Part 5 Other Types of Procurators and Their Normativities in a Comparative Framework

11 Caught between Two Stools: the Procurators in the Province of Brazil and the Ambitions of the Society of Jesus

Beatriz Nowicki and Carlos Zeron

12 The Procurators da missão and Reitores de Diu : Tricks and Tensions in the Administration of the Ethiopian Mission

Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner

13 A carta viva from Angola: the Case of Baltasar Barreira, Superior and Informal Procurator of the Angola Mission, c.1579–1604

João Vicente Melo

14 Circulation, Representation, Legitimacy: Starting Points for Further Research on Administrative Practices in a Global Framework

Fabian Fechner

Appendices

1 The Formula of the Congregation of Procurators: Introduction, Latin Text, and English Translation

Alexander Winkler

2 Claudio Acquaviva, Instrucción para el procurador de las Indias occidentales (c.1582)

Translated by Alexandre Coello de la Rosa

3 Juan Pablo Oliva, general de los Jesuitas, Instrucción para los procuradores de las Indias Occidentales que residen en Sevilla y Madrid y para los que serán enviados de aquellas provincias y para los provinciales de unos y otros , 13 de abril de 1668

4 Documents Relating to the Preparation of the Procurators’ Journeys from Paraguay (1738)

Corinna Gramatke

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-75054-1

9789004750548

OCLC:

1561175459

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004750548 DOI