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Jesuits and Fortifications [electronic resource] : the Contribution of the Jesuits to Military Architecture in the Baroque Age.

Summary:

This book sheds light on the role of Jesuit mathematicians in the widespread dissemination of ideas about military architecture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by means of teaching, writings and consultancy activities aimed at assisting Catholic leaders in their wars against protestants and infidels.

Record details

ISBN: 9789004223783 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9004223789 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (414 p.)
Publisher: Leiden : BRILL, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Formatted Contents Note:	List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Preface; 1. The Jesuit Interest in the Art of War; The 'Military Mind' of Ignatius of Loyola. .; Decisive Battles for the Salvation of the Catholic Church: The Rhetoric of the Jesuit Preacher, the Skills of the Jesuit Confessor and the Foundation of the Best Teaching and Learning Institutions of the Baroque Age. ... ; Entering Dangerous Territory: The Jesuit Mathematicus and the Geometry of War in Early Modern Europe. "I am now a priest and a colonel"--The Views of the Learned Antonio Possevino and Other Jesuit Scholars Regarding the Involvement of Clerics in War-Related Activities to Conquer the Enemies of the Catholic Church. .2. From the Classroom to the Battlefield--Jesuit Teachings on fortification Building in Early Modern Europe; Accommodating the Demands of the Catholic Nobility oft he Baroque Age; The Role of the Jesuit Mathematicus in Italy, France and Portugal. Classes on Fortification Building at the Colegio Imperial in madrid and the Dissemination of Jesuit Military Knowledge in the European Dominions of His Catholic Majesty some Exotic Jesuit Scenarios beyond Europe: American Reducciones, Philippine Fortresses and Chinese Cannon; 3. Jesuit Writings on Military Architecture; The Authors and Titles of Jesuit Treatises on MiliArchitecture inurein the Baroque Age; General Vincenzo Carafa's Prohibition of Jesuit Ron fortificationfication Building; The Creation of a Unique Synergy Document: The Escuelade Palas Treatise of 1693; 4. The Case of Giacomo Masò The Life History of Padre Giacomo MasòThe Great Turkish Peril and the Establishment of a JesuitAc ademy of Fortification Mathematics in Hospitaller Malta.; Trattato dell'Architettura Militare Defensiva, et Offensiva--An Unpublished Treatise on Military Architecture; Giacomo's Tragic Death in Sicily--A Case ofInner Personal Conflicts?; 5. The Contribution of the JeArchitecture ofilitary Architectureof the Baroque Age; The End of an Era--The General Suppression of the Jesuit Order in 1773 and its Aftermath; Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; General Index.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.