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Book SynopsisÉtienne Pasquier (1529–1615) was a lawyer, royal official, man of letters, and historian. He represented the University of Paris in its 1565 suit to dislodge a Jesuit school from Paris. Despite royal support, the Jesuits remained in conflict with many institutions, which in 1595 led to their expulsion from much of the realm. With ever-increasing polemics, Pasquier continued to oppose the Jesuits. To further his aims, he published a dialog between a Jesuit (almost certainly Louis Richeome) and a lawyer (Pasquier himself). He called it the Jesuits’ Catechism (1602). Pasquier’s work did not stop the French king from welcoming the Jesuits back. However, Pasquier’s Catechism remained central to Jansenist and other anti-Jesuit agitation up to the Society’s 1773 suppression and beyond.Trade Review“Reflecting on the first time that I read the Catechism as a graduate student, I can only lament that this translation was not available to me for consultation. […] The overall production quality of this book is outstanding, well-bound, and with a layout and font size that makes reading it a pleasure. […] The high quality of this, the first volume in Brill’s new Anti-Jesuit Literature Series, leaves this reviewer looking forward to what comes next.” Eric Nelson, Missouri State University. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 9, No. 3 (2022), pp. 475–477. “A precious scholarly resource […]. An essential addition to Brill’s Jesuit Studies series and an ideal inauguration for the new Anti-Jesuit Literature series […]. The footnotes have been conceived very thoughtfully and they supply very valuable information on historical figures, events and literary allusions that make the text approachable and engaging, without overburdening the reader.” Angela Andreani, University of Milan. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 74, No. 1 (January 2023), pp. 194–195.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Historical Introduction  Jotham Parsons Translator’s Preface  Patricia M. Ranum Glossary of Terms lxvi Étienne Pasquier The Jesuits’ Catechism or Their Doctrine Examined Book I 1 Wherein a Gentleman Opens His Country House to a Group of Weary Travelers 2 The Plan of the Society of Jesus, Whom Ordinary Folks Call Jesuits 3 Censure of the Jesuit Sect by the Faculty of Theology of Paris in 1554 4 How, When, and by What Artifices, the Jesuits Wormed Their Way into France 5 Decree of the Gallican Church against the Jesuits at the Colloquy Held at Poissy in 1561 6 On the Request Presented to the Parlement by the Jesuits in 1564, to Matriculate at the University of Paris, and How Many Parties Butted Heads with Them 7 How the Jesuits Were Refused at the Very Beginning in Rome, and the Artifice Thanks to Which They Were Received 8 The Insolent Name of the Society of Jesus, Usurped by the Jesuits, and the Diverse Fashions They Expressed It, in Order to Get It Authorized 9 The Jesuits Are Called Apostles in Portugal and in the Indies, and the Deceit They Used 10 The Impieties of Guillaume Postel, Jesuit 11 The Studies of the Great Ignatius 12 When Ignatius and His Companions Presented Themselves before Pope Paul III, They Were True Charlatans, and the Titles They Used Were False 13 It Very Much Appears That the Approval Granted by Paul III to the Jesuit Sect Is Null and Void 14 First, the Management of Our Church by the Bishops; Second, the Ancient Religious Orders; Third, the Universities; and How the Jesuit Sect Is Built on the Ignorance of All This Antiquity 15 One Cannot Give a Place to the Jesuits in All the Three Ancient Orders of Our Church, and That Is Why They Do Not Dare Attend Processions 16 Without Wounding the Authority of the Holy See, One Can Truly Call the Jesuits Papelards, and Their Sect the Papelardie 17 On Ignatius of Loyola’s Fabulous Visions, and on the Miraculous Fables of Francisco Xavier 18 On Ignatius’s Machiavellisms, to Make His Sect Stylish 19 Closing Book I Book II 1 Our Gallican Church and the Jesuit Sect Are Incompatible 2 The Popes Who Authorized the Jesuits When They First Arrived, Never Believed That They Could or Should Reside in France 3 The Jesuits’ Teaching of Humane Letters, Philosophy, and Theology to All Sorts of Scholars Is Contrary to Their First Institute; and Concerning the Progress and the Surprises They Used to Promote This New Tyranny, to the Detriment of the Ancient Discipline of the Universities 4 The Foundation of Jesuit Cheating Comes from the Instruction of Young People, and Why Our Ancients Did Not Want Young People to Be Taught Learning in Religious Orders 5 The Artifice by Which the Jesuits Enrich Themselves from the Castoff Possessions of Their Novices 6 The University of Paris Was Ruined by the Jesuit’s Crafty Liberality When Teaching the Young 7 The Jesuit Sect Has Encountered Peter Abelard’s Heresy on Several Occasions 8 Jesuits Claim the Right to Remove from Their College Children Who Are in the Guardianship of Their Fathers and Their Mothers, without Their Permission 9 Concerning the First Vow Made by the Jesuits, Which They Call the Simple Vow 10 One Cannot Excuse the Presence of Heresy and Machiavellism in the Jesuits’ Simple Vow 11 How the Jesuits Engage the Authority of the Holy See in Order to Excuse the Heresy of Their Simple Vow 12 In Addition to the Heresy in the Simple Vow of the Jesuits, There Is Also Manifest Cheating 13 The Jesuit Provincials Authorize Themselves to Dismiss Their Inferiors of the Simple Vow, Just as Their General Does 14 How the Jesuit Fathers of the Great and Third Vow Mock God When They Vow to Be Beggars 15 The Jesuits’ Vow of Chastity Contains Yet Another Heresy, and a Brief Discussion of the Title Fathers, Which the Jesuits of the Great Vow Call Themselves 16 About the Mission Vow, and How They Use It to Make Fun of Us All, Especially Our Holy Father the Pope 17 On the Blind Obedience That the Jesuits Have for the Pope, and Which They Are Disavowing Today in Their New Books 18 The Jesuits’ Solution for Concealing the Impiety of Their Blind Obedience 19 About Ignatius’s Wisdom and the New Jesuits’ Silliness. A Conversation between the Jesuit and the Author of the Present Discourses Book III 1 On the Anabaptism in the Jesuits’ Blind Obedience toward Their Superiors. And How, Owing to That, No King or Prince Can Protect Himself from Being Ambushed 2 On the Extraordinary Trial Conducted in the Low Countries against Robert Bruce, a Scotch Gentleman Who Had Been Denounced by Father William Crichton, Jesuit, for Being Unwilling to Carry Out the Assassination of the Chancellor of Scotland 3 On the Assassination That William Parry, Englishman, Urged On by the Jesuits, Wanted to Commit against Elizabeth, Queen of England, in 1584 4 About Another Assassination Pursued in 1597 against the Queen of England by the Jesuits 5 The Jesuits Today Pretend to Disapprove of Their Heinous Doctrine Concerning the Murders of Princes and Rebellions against the State 6 The Prodigious History of the Detestable Parricide Attempted against King Henri IV, Most Christian King of France and Navarre, Incited by Jesuits 7 How Very Prejudicial to Our Church the Barbaric Impiety of the Jesuits Would Have Been, If Their Execrable Advice Had Had Its Effect 8 On the Assassination That Jean Châtel, Nurtured at the School of the Parisian Jesuits, Wanted to Attempt against the King in 1594 9 It Is a Heresy to Approve of the Assassins of Princes, Even Though the Princes Were Tyrants 10 A Memorable Act by Ignatius, Where the Jesuits Learned to Kill, or to Have Killed, Those Who Do Not Adhere to Their Opinions 11 On the Holy League That the Jesuits Introduced into France in 1585, and How They Are the Cause of the Huguenots’ Resurgence 12 The Auricular Confession of the Jesuits Has Been the Strongest Sword of the Rebellion, and How They Fence with It 13 On the General Congregation of the Jesuits, Held in Rome in 1593, Where They Were Forbidden to Become Involved in Affairs of State 14 Do Jesuits Have Spanish Souls, as Their Enemies Say They Do, or Do They Belong to the Highest Bidder? 15 The Jesuits Caused the Death of Mary, Queen of Scots: a Brief Discourse on the Ruin They Created for England 16 The Jesuits Get Involved in the Affairs of State, and after They Have Troubled Kingdoms, Everything Turns Out the Opposite of What They Hope 17 The Pope Does Not Have the Power to Transfer the Kingdom of France from One Person to Another, to Counter the Dangerous Proposition of Jesuism, and Other Discussions on the Same Subject 18 Decree of the Parlement of Paris against the Jesuits in 1594, and a Chapter Excerpted from Book 3 of the Recherches de la France by Étienne Pasquier 19 By Covert Words, the Jesuits Claim That the Decree against Jean Châtel Was Unjust: and How God Permitted Him to Be Punished in Order to Make the Jesuits’ Punishment More Exemplary for Posterity 20 Concerning the Pyramid Built in Front of the Palais of Paris, and the Decree Issued in Rome by the Magnificent Pasquin about the Reestablishment Being Sought by the Jesuits 21 On the Division That Seems to Exist between the Parlements of France Concerning the Jesuits, and How That Division Can Be Handled 22 How the Order of the Umiliati Was Suppressed by a Decree from Rome, and Why There Are More Arguments for Suppressing the Jesuits than the Umiliati 23 The Jesuits’ Impudence in Order to Protect Themselves from the Decree of the Consistory of Rome, Issued against the Order of the Umiliati 24 The Jesuit Sect Is No Less Prejudicial to Our Church than the Lutheran Sect Is 25 Concerning the Noteworthy Undertaking of the Superior General of the Jesuits against the Holy See of Rome, and That There Is No New Sect That Eventually Can Be as Prejudicial to It 26 One Must Not Make It a Practice to Believe Our Jesuits’ Promises, Because There Is No Faith and Law in Them, beyond the Faith and the Law That Depend on the Convenience of Their Affairs 27 Conclusion to the Third Book, about the Reestablishment of the Jesuits Who Had Been Chased Out 28 On the Schism Recently Introduced by the Jesuits into the Catholic Church of England, Scorning the Authority of the Holy See, a Tragic Story That Is Full of Compassion and Pity Index

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Book SynopsisIn An Overview of the Pre-suppression Society of Jesus in Spain, Patricia W. Manning offers a survey of the Society of Jesus in Spain from its origins in Ignatius of Loyola’s early preaching to the aftereffects of its expulsion. Rather than nurture the nascent order, Loyola’s homeland was often ambivalent. His pre-Jesuit freelance sermonizing prompted investigations. The young Society confronted indifference and interference from the Spanish monarchy and outright opposition from other religious orders. This essay outlines the order’s ministerial and pedagogical activities, its relationship with women and with royal institutions, including the Spanish Inquisition, and Spanish members’ roles in theological debates concerning casuistry, free will, and the immaculate conception. It also considers the impact of Jesuits’ non-religious writings.Trade Review“Manning’s work merits attention from scholars at all levels of study interested in the Society of Jesus in Spain. For those new to the field, it includes a glossary of commonly used terms and applicable English equivalents, as well as a comprehensive bibliography. Her panoramic view of Jesuit activity across multiple social sectors is sure to appeal to experts in the discipline as well since she attends to major events and personages while illuminating the Jesuits’ presence in the popular imagination throughout the essay.” Brandan Grayson, Anderson University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Spring 2023), pp. 295–297.Table of ContentsContents An Overview of the Pre-Suppression Society of Jesus in Spain  Patricia W. Manning  Abstract  Keywords  Glossary of Frequently Used Terms  1 Introduction  2 Ignatius of Loyola  3 The Early Years of the Society of Jesus in Spain  4 Borja and Mercurian’s Generalates  5 Encounters with the Inquisition  6 Admission Redux: Excluding Conversos from the Society  7 Aiding Catholics under Siege  8 The Question of Religiously Minded Women  9 Theological Debates  10 Jesuits’ Roles in the Inquisition in the Seventeenth Century  11 Jesuit Aprobación Writers  12 Pedagogy  13 Preaching  14 Publications by Jesuits  15 Jesuit Celebrations  16 Domestic Life in the Society  17 Seventeenth-Century Crises  18 Controlling Chocolate and Tobacco Usage in the Society  19 The Immaculate Conception, Part 2: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries  20 Publications Unfavorable to the Order  21 The Expulsion  22 The Aftermath  23 Conclusion  Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis volume is the result of the symposium `Ordo pre ceteris commendatus. Late Medieval Spiritual Renewal in the Low Countries Influenced by the Carthusian Order’ (2008), organized by Cartusiana. It includes four English papers, as well as three Dutch papers with extensive English summaries. The papers explore Carthusian influences on institutional history, social networking, liturgy, reformist spirituality and book culture. The editors of this volume also have organized four sessions (2009-2012) touching on the same subjects at the International Medieval Conference in Leeds. The broad lines from the work-in-progress papers presented in Leeds, as well as the outcome of the question-and-answer sessions and discussions that were the result of the panels, have been transformed by the editors into two introductory papers, in order to frame the other papers in this volume from a broader historical perspective.

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