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Early Jesuits and the Rhetorical Tradition / Jaska Kainulainen.
- 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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