Jesuits and Fortifications 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: electronic resource
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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.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.