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Early Jesuits and the Rhetorical Tradition / Jaska Kainulainen.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kainulainen, Jaska, author.
Series:
Routledge research in early modern history.
Routledge Research in Early Modern History Series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Jesuits--History.
Jesuits.
Rhetoric--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Rhetoric.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (269 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Abingdon, England : Routledge, [2024]
Summary:
This book explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Jesuit contributions to the rhetorical tradition established by Isocrates, Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian.
Contents:
Intro
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Jesuits, Rome and the pagan tradition
Renaissance rhetoric
Early Jesuits and Renaissance Rome
3. Language teaching in Jesuit schools
The primacy of Latin
Grammar classes in Jesuit schools
Some challenges and solutions
4. Rhetoric in Jesuit education
Renaissance education
Jesuit education
Manners, politeness and urbanitas
Rhetorical education and the common good
Education and democratisation
Christian virtues and civic values
Liberal arts and virtue
The college of Messina
The college of Rome
Learning the art of rhetoric
Readings and syllabus
5. Jesuit Ciceronianism
The question of imitatio
The aim of rhetoric
The epideictic and the Christian grand style
Cicero at Jesuit schools
Cypriano Soarez's De arte rhetorica (1562)
Dialectic and rhetoric
6. The art of letter writing
Jesuit instructions on letter writing
Jean Voel's manual of letter writing
The unity of the brotherhood
7. Jesuit rhetoric and civic life
Jesuit anti-Machiavellianism
Jesuits, rhetoric and politics
Virtue, nobility and the common good
Rhetoric, prudence and adaptability
Jesuits-seculars or regulars?
The question of political participation
8. Jesuit education and rhetoric in global context
Missionary work
Jesuit overseas education
Case studies: India, Mexico and Peru
The deterioration of Ciceronian rhetoric
9. Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Archival material
Printed sources
Secondary literature
Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
1-003-85572-5
1-003-85576-8
1-003-12012-1
9781003120124
OCLC:
1417605554

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