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Papers by Paul Shore

Research paper thumbnail of Narratives of Adversity

Central European University Press eBooks, Mar 10, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Seasons of Change

Research paper thumbnail of Narratives of Adversity: Jesuits on the Eastern Peripheries of the Habsburg Realms (1640-1773) by Paul Shore

The Catholic Historical Review, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Sanctuaries, Gateways: The Sonic Spaces of Curative and Palliative Music in Medieval Cloister and Infirmary

Ars Medica, May 30, 2014

the medieval monastery or convent was characterized by specific patterns of sound. Within it were... more the medieval monastery or convent was characterized by specific patterns of sound. Within it were spaces dedicated to particular functions, each of which generated patterns of sound that changed over time. the library, for example, started as a place of considerable noise, as readers pronounced aloud the texts before them; it later grew quieter, as silent reading became the norm. spaces concerned with the raising of animals, the transport of objects up steep slopes (at Mont-st-Michel this involved the use of pulleys), or the production of wine or cheese each had their characteristic range of sounds. these could be either amplified or deadened by the space's interior surfaces, and could be altered by advances in technology and changes in architecture or interior furnishing. the infirmarium (also infirmaria or infirmatorium, later firmarium; in english, fermary, fermory, or farmary), in Volume 10 Issue 1

Research paper thumbnail of palliative Music in Medieval

sanctuaries, gateways: the sonic spaces of curative and

Research paper thumbnail of The suppression of the Society of Jesus in Bohemia

L'A. relate les evenements qui ont caracterise la suppression de la Compagnie de Jesus en Boh... more L'A. relate les evenements qui ont caracterise la suppression de la Compagnie de Jesus en Boheme durant l'annee 1773. Il tente de reconstruire les causes qui ont conduit a cette triste issue : 1200 Jesuites, en effet, ont ete ainsi expulses. C'est aussi l'occasion d'evoquer les consequences economiques et culturelles de ces evenements pour la Boheme d'une part, et pour les Jesuites d'autre part. L'A. propose quatre grilles de lecture pour interpreter ces faits : voir les Jesuites comme heritiers de la Contre Reforme catholique, les considerer comme les precurseurs de la nation tcheque, les envisager comme participants de la Philosophie des Lumieres, les observer en tant qu'agents de la burocratie des Habsbourgs

Research paper thumbnail of Péter Pázmány: Cardinal, Archbishop of Esztergom, Primate of Hungary

Journal of Jesuit Studies, 2020

Péter Pázmány (1570–1636) was one of the most significant personalities in early modern Hungarian... more Péter Pázmány (1570–1636) was one of the most significant personalities in early modern Hungarian history. Born a Protestant, Pázmány converted to Catholicism while a student and then became a Jesuit. Despite the Society’s requirement of vows from its members that excluded the possibility of holding high ecclesiastical office, Pázmány became provost of Turóc (a small church benefice in northern Hungary) and shortly thereafter archbishop of Esztergom and primate of Hungary. His tenure was marked by ecclesiastical reform and multiple educational projects of which the most notable was the founding of a university in Nagyszombat (Trnava). He was also the author of influential devotional and polemical works in the Hungarian vernacular. Pázmány’s legacy as a preserver and promoter of a “civilization” and a creed both Christian and European and of a culture distinctly Hungarian endures, as does his reputation as a master and shaper of Hungarian prose.

Research paper thumbnail of Die Wiederherstellung der Gesellschaft Jesu: Vorbereitung, Durchführung und Auswirkungen: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Verhältnisse im Wallis, edited by Paul Oberholzer

Journal of Jesuit Studies, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Ludovico Marracci at work. The evolution of his Latin translation of the Qur’ān in the light of his newly discovered manuscripts. With an edition and a comparative linguistic analysis of sura 18. By Reinhold F. Glei and Roberto Tottoli. (Corpus Islamo-Christianum, Series Arabica-Latina, 1.) Pp. 1...

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Ex-Jesuit Librarian-Scholars Adam František Kollár and György Pray: Baroque Tradition, National Identity, and the Enlightenment among Jesuits in the Eastern Habsburg Lands

Journal of Jesuit Studies, 2019

The former Jesuits Adam František Kollár and György Pray each devoted much of their careers to wo... more The former Jesuits Adam František Kollár and György Pray each devoted much of their careers to work in libraries; thereby contributing to the literary and scholarly culture of the eastern Habsburg lands during the second half of the eighteenth century. Kollár, who left the Jesuits early in his career, authored works defending the rights of the Hungarian crown, and chronicled the history of the Rusyn people, ultimately achieved an international reputation as a scholar, coining the term ethnologia. Pray is remembered for his discovery of the oldest written example of the Hungarian language, his extensive historical publications, and for his role, following the papal suppression of 1773, as “Historiographus Hungariae” (Hungary’s hagiographer). The impact of these scholarly efforts by these former Jesuits was a rich and enduring foundation upon which later Hungarian historiography and library science would be based.

Research paper thumbnail of Two Hungarian Jesuits and the Qur'an: Understanding, Misunderstanding, and Polemic

Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 2018

Two Hungarian Jesuits active in the early seventeenth century, Stephanus Arator and Peter Pázmány... more Two Hungarian Jesuits active in the early seventeenth century, Stephanus Arator and Peter Pázmány, wrote polemical pieces drawing on the Qur'an. Arator's work, Confutatio alcorani (1610) relies on the 1543 Bibliander edition of the translation made by Robert of Ketton and on Juan Andrés’ Confusión o confutación de la secta Mahomética y del Alcorán. Pázmány, in his Az mostan tamat uy tvdomaniok hamissaganak (1605) also draws on Bibliander, while presenting his own translations of, and commentaries on, Bibliander into Hungarian, the language of Pázmány's work. Both Arator and Pázmány were influenced more by the political and confessional dynamics surrounding them than by any apparent desire to grasp the meaning of the Qur'an. The crisis that both Catholicism and, more broadly, European Christianity, faced in the early seventeenth century overshadows these Jesuits’ efforts to explore the Qur'an. Pázmány, in particular, uses the Qur'an to make a case against Prot...

Research paper thumbnail of Jesuits in the Orthodox World

Oxford Handbooks Online, 2018

Interactions between Jesuits and Orthodox believers have been characterized both by meaningful en... more Interactions between Jesuits and Orthodox believers have been characterized both by meaningful encounters and by conflict and misunderstanding. The gaps between urban, transnational, and book-oriented Jesuit culture and the traditional, rural, and preliterate cultures of many Orthodox populations were underscored by different theological ideas and by great power politics. Ethnic rivalries and a historic suspicion of Catholicism among some Orthodox also contributed to tensions. Jesuits nonetheless worked over a wide portion of Russia, the Balkans, and other locations in Eastern Europe, although their success in converting Orthodox was always very modest. The Soviet era brought severe persecution to Jesuits. Since 1991, the Society has returned to the region, but with a focus now based on education, compassion, outreach, and social justice rather than on proselytizing.

Research paper thumbnail of Church and Society in Hungary and the Hungarian Diaspora by Nándor DreiszigerChurch and Society in Hungary and the Hungarian Diaspora by Nándor Dreisziger. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2016. xv, 476 pp. $95.00 Cdn (cloth)

Canadian Journal of History, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Nora Pärr

Journal of Jesuit Studies, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Contact, Confrontation, Accommodation: Jesuits and Islam, 1540-1770

Al-Qanṭara, 2015

The encounter between Jesuits and Muslims in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries had as a po... more The encounter between Jesuits and Muslims in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries had as a point of connection the shared engagement with the spoken and written word. But Jesuit efforts both to convert and to understand this "people of the Book" were hampered by the Jesuits' lack of deep theological understanding of Muslim sacred texts, and by the fact that this faith was not at a sufficient distance from the European Catholic heartland to receive the "longer view" that Jesuits could apply to the religious traditions of India and the Far East. The overstretched commitments of the Jesuits, and the European Society's emphasis on polemical strategies, which did not prove workable in predominantly Muslim cultures, significantly limited the successes of Jesuits seeking to convert Muslims. The modest gains Jesuits made in the Ottoman and Mughal Empires and in other Muslim societies nevertheless provided narratives of achievement, heroism, and sacrifice that added elements to Jesuit self-presentation and to the narrative of the Society's progress. Jesuit contacts with Islam continued during and after the Suppression and are still an aspect of the Society's program today.

Research paper thumbnail of The Years of Jesuit Suppression, 1773–1814: Survival, Setbacks, and Transformation

Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies

The forty-one years between the Society of Jesus’s papal suppression in 1773 and its eventual res... more The forty-one years between the Society of Jesus’s papal suppression in 1773 and its eventual restoration in 1814 remain controversial, with new research and interpretations continually appearing. Shore’s narrative approaches these years, and the period preceding the suppression, from a new perspective that covers individuals not usually discussed in works dealing with this topic. As well as examining the contributions of former Jesuits to fields as diverse as ethnology—a term and concept pioneered by an ex-Jesuit—and library science, where Jesuits and ex-Jesuits laid the groundwork for the great advances of the nineteenth century, the essay also explores the period the exiled Society spent in the Russian Empire. It concludes with a discussion of the Society’s restoration in the broader context of world history.

Research paper thumbnail of The Muslim Body in the Baroque Jesuit Imagination

Al-Qanṭara, 2015

The composition will be to see with the sight of imagination the corporeal place where the thing ... more The composition will be to see with the sight of imagination the corporeal place where the thing is found which I want to contemplate.-Ignatius of Loyola 2 Insana Machometis daeleria-Anonymous Jesuit chronicler, 1687 3 Jesuits of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-even those living relatively closely to Muslim lands-often had no personal knowledge of Muslims, and yet the figure of the Muslim loomed large in the baroque Jesuit imagination. Because Jesuit formation involves the visualization of events and persons never seen, Jesuits of this period were in a special position to construct an imaginary Muslim, which they derived from translations of the Qur'an, from artworks, including book illustrations, and from the patterns and symbolism of Jesuit emblematics. This essay explores how baroque Jesuit visualization of the Muslim body was shaped by these factors, and also by other Europe-wide phenomena such as turcica literature.

Research paper thumbnail of Fragmentum annuarium Collegii Societatis Iesu Claudiopolitani : The Account of a Jesuit Mission in Transylvania, 1659-1662

Reformation & Renaissance Review, 2006

... serving in Transylvania in the decades before Austria gained control of the region in 1690, m... more ... serving in Transylvania in the decades before Austria gained control of the region in 1690, most notably Stephan us Csetc, who assumed the name Vizkeleti Istvan, but many ... Secjakab Elek, 'A kolozs-monostori apátsági zarda mint flldözöttick menhclye", Századok 21(1889), pp. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Noble Patronage and Jesuit Missions: Maria Theresia von Fugger-Wellenburg (1690���1762) and Jesuit Missionaries in China and Vietnam ��� By R. Po-Chia Hsia

Journal of Religious History, 2009

... Noble Patronage and Jesuit Missions: Maria Theresia von Fugger-Wellenburg (1690–1762) and Jes... more ... Noble Patronage and Jesuit Missions: Maria Theresia von Fugger-Wellenburg (1690–1762) and Jesuit Missionaries in China and Vietnam – By R. Po-Chia Hsia. Paul Shore. ... More content like this. Find more content: like this article. Find more content written by: Paul Shore. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Ludovico Marracci at work. The evolution of his Latin translation of the Qur’ān in the light of his newly discovered manuscripts. With an edition and a comparative linguistic analysis of sura .

Journal of Ecclesiastica History, 2018

Mannock Strickland, lived through a period of ebbing fortunes for his English Catholic co-religio... more Mannock Strickland, lived through a period of ebbing fortunes for his English Catholic co-religionists. His faith having ruled out his being called to the Bar, Strickland rose as high as he could in his chosen profession but maintained a sideline in representing the interests of several exile religious communities. He acted as agent for four English convents: the Augustinians at Louvain, the Benedictines in Dunkirk, and the Dominican and the Benedictine communities in Brussels. He also had dealings with the English male house of Carthusians at Nieuport. Strickland's papers have survived at Mapledurham in Oxfordshire, the editor of the volume at hand, Richard Williams, asserting that they are the only complete set of an English lawyer's papers to have been preserved from the period. In this volume, Williams reproduces letters, account books and bills of exchange from Strickland's dealings with the exile houses, particularly the convents. Of especial interest are the letters though, oddly, considering the book's focus on Strickland, it is not actually his letters that survive but those that he received from the nuns. Nevertheless, from the correspondence reproduced here it is possible to build a picture of Strickland's activities on their behalf, from the general investment of funds and the chasing of money owing, to the passing on of books to the expat women. Williams also provides an introduction to the volume, as well as some useful pen pictures of recurring individuals. The introduction is light on engagement with the historiography of the English convents, with some highly contentious opinions ventured, Williams very much viewing the documents with Strickland rather than the women religious as the principle point of attention. For example, Williams take a dim view of Cecily Tunstall, procuratrix for the Augustinian canonesses at Louvain, painting her in a disparaging light against Strickland's alleged professionalism, a picture that seems harsh from reading the documents. After all, the 'little' jobs that Tunstall wanted to have done may have been irksome to Strickland but they were the job of the agent. Admittedly, after all his training, Strickland may not have enjoyed acting as the eighteenth-century equivalent of a debt collector, tasked with the unenviable job of tracking down convent benefactors for non-payment, but then he did accept that role, presumably out of religious affinity, though his motives are not explored by Williams. Overall, for historians of the exile religious communities and scholars of early eighteenth-century legal and economic studies, this volume is a rich resource to be discovered and exploited from a range of perspectives. JAMES E. KELLY DURHAM UNIVERSITY Ludovico Marracci at work. The evolution of his Latin translation of the Qur'an in the light of his newly discovered manuscripts. With an edition and a comparative linguistic analysis of sura . By Reinhold F. Glei and Roberto Tottoli. (Corpus Islamo-Christianum, Series Arabica-Latina, .) Pp.  incl.  colour figs and  table. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, . €.     ;   JEH () ; doi:./S Ludovico Marracci's Alcorani textus universus is rightly regarded as a landmark in the history of Qur'an translations into Western European languages.

Research paper thumbnail of Narratives of Adversity

Central European University Press eBooks, Mar 10, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Seasons of Change

Research paper thumbnail of Narratives of Adversity: Jesuits on the Eastern Peripheries of the Habsburg Realms (1640-1773) by Paul Shore

The Catholic Historical Review, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Sanctuaries, Gateways: The Sonic Spaces of Curative and Palliative Music in Medieval Cloister and Infirmary

Ars Medica, May 30, 2014

the medieval monastery or convent was characterized by specific patterns of sound. Within it were... more the medieval monastery or convent was characterized by specific patterns of sound. Within it were spaces dedicated to particular functions, each of which generated patterns of sound that changed over time. the library, for example, started as a place of considerable noise, as readers pronounced aloud the texts before them; it later grew quieter, as silent reading became the norm. spaces concerned with the raising of animals, the transport of objects up steep slopes (at Mont-st-Michel this involved the use of pulleys), or the production of wine or cheese each had their characteristic range of sounds. these could be either amplified or deadened by the space's interior surfaces, and could be altered by advances in technology and changes in architecture or interior furnishing. the infirmarium (also infirmaria or infirmatorium, later firmarium; in english, fermary, fermory, or farmary), in Volume 10 Issue 1

Research paper thumbnail of palliative Music in Medieval

sanctuaries, gateways: the sonic spaces of curative and

Research paper thumbnail of The suppression of the Society of Jesus in Bohemia

L'A. relate les evenements qui ont caracterise la suppression de la Compagnie de Jesus en Boh... more L'A. relate les evenements qui ont caracterise la suppression de la Compagnie de Jesus en Boheme durant l'annee 1773. Il tente de reconstruire les causes qui ont conduit a cette triste issue : 1200 Jesuites, en effet, ont ete ainsi expulses. C'est aussi l'occasion d'evoquer les consequences economiques et culturelles de ces evenements pour la Boheme d'une part, et pour les Jesuites d'autre part. L'A. propose quatre grilles de lecture pour interpreter ces faits : voir les Jesuites comme heritiers de la Contre Reforme catholique, les considerer comme les precurseurs de la nation tcheque, les envisager comme participants de la Philosophie des Lumieres, les observer en tant qu'agents de la burocratie des Habsbourgs

Research paper thumbnail of Péter Pázmány: Cardinal, Archbishop of Esztergom, Primate of Hungary

Journal of Jesuit Studies, 2020

Péter Pázmány (1570–1636) was one of the most significant personalities in early modern Hungarian... more Péter Pázmány (1570–1636) was one of the most significant personalities in early modern Hungarian history. Born a Protestant, Pázmány converted to Catholicism while a student and then became a Jesuit. Despite the Society’s requirement of vows from its members that excluded the possibility of holding high ecclesiastical office, Pázmány became provost of Turóc (a small church benefice in northern Hungary) and shortly thereafter archbishop of Esztergom and primate of Hungary. His tenure was marked by ecclesiastical reform and multiple educational projects of which the most notable was the founding of a university in Nagyszombat (Trnava). He was also the author of influential devotional and polemical works in the Hungarian vernacular. Pázmány’s legacy as a preserver and promoter of a “civilization” and a creed both Christian and European and of a culture distinctly Hungarian endures, as does his reputation as a master and shaper of Hungarian prose.

Research paper thumbnail of Die Wiederherstellung der Gesellschaft Jesu: Vorbereitung, Durchführung und Auswirkungen: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Verhältnisse im Wallis, edited by Paul Oberholzer

Journal of Jesuit Studies, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Ludovico Marracci at work. The evolution of his Latin translation of the Qur’ān in the light of his newly discovered manuscripts. With an edition and a comparative linguistic analysis of sura 18. By Reinhold F. Glei and Roberto Tottoli. (Corpus Islamo-Christianum, Series Arabica-Latina, 1.) Pp. 1...

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Ex-Jesuit Librarian-Scholars Adam František Kollár and György Pray: Baroque Tradition, National Identity, and the Enlightenment among Jesuits in the Eastern Habsburg Lands

Journal of Jesuit Studies, 2019

The former Jesuits Adam František Kollár and György Pray each devoted much of their careers to wo... more The former Jesuits Adam František Kollár and György Pray each devoted much of their careers to work in libraries; thereby contributing to the literary and scholarly culture of the eastern Habsburg lands during the second half of the eighteenth century. Kollár, who left the Jesuits early in his career, authored works defending the rights of the Hungarian crown, and chronicled the history of the Rusyn people, ultimately achieved an international reputation as a scholar, coining the term ethnologia. Pray is remembered for his discovery of the oldest written example of the Hungarian language, his extensive historical publications, and for his role, following the papal suppression of 1773, as “Historiographus Hungariae” (Hungary’s hagiographer). The impact of these scholarly efforts by these former Jesuits was a rich and enduring foundation upon which later Hungarian historiography and library science would be based.

Research paper thumbnail of Two Hungarian Jesuits and the Qur'an: Understanding, Misunderstanding, and Polemic

Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 2018

Two Hungarian Jesuits active in the early seventeenth century, Stephanus Arator and Peter Pázmány... more Two Hungarian Jesuits active in the early seventeenth century, Stephanus Arator and Peter Pázmány, wrote polemical pieces drawing on the Qur'an. Arator's work, Confutatio alcorani (1610) relies on the 1543 Bibliander edition of the translation made by Robert of Ketton and on Juan Andrés’ Confusión o confutación de la secta Mahomética y del Alcorán. Pázmány, in his Az mostan tamat uy tvdomaniok hamissaganak (1605) also draws on Bibliander, while presenting his own translations of, and commentaries on, Bibliander into Hungarian, the language of Pázmány's work. Both Arator and Pázmány were influenced more by the political and confessional dynamics surrounding them than by any apparent desire to grasp the meaning of the Qur'an. The crisis that both Catholicism and, more broadly, European Christianity, faced in the early seventeenth century overshadows these Jesuits’ efforts to explore the Qur'an. Pázmány, in particular, uses the Qur'an to make a case against Prot...

Research paper thumbnail of Jesuits in the Orthodox World

Oxford Handbooks Online, 2018

Interactions between Jesuits and Orthodox believers have been characterized both by meaningful en... more Interactions between Jesuits and Orthodox believers have been characterized both by meaningful encounters and by conflict and misunderstanding. The gaps between urban, transnational, and book-oriented Jesuit culture and the traditional, rural, and preliterate cultures of many Orthodox populations were underscored by different theological ideas and by great power politics. Ethnic rivalries and a historic suspicion of Catholicism among some Orthodox also contributed to tensions. Jesuits nonetheless worked over a wide portion of Russia, the Balkans, and other locations in Eastern Europe, although their success in converting Orthodox was always very modest. The Soviet era brought severe persecution to Jesuits. Since 1991, the Society has returned to the region, but with a focus now based on education, compassion, outreach, and social justice rather than on proselytizing.

Research paper thumbnail of Church and Society in Hungary and the Hungarian Diaspora by Nándor DreiszigerChurch and Society in Hungary and the Hungarian Diaspora by Nándor Dreisziger. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2016. xv, 476 pp. $95.00 Cdn (cloth)

Canadian Journal of History, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Nora Pärr

Journal of Jesuit Studies, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Contact, Confrontation, Accommodation: Jesuits and Islam, 1540-1770

Al-Qanṭara, 2015

The encounter between Jesuits and Muslims in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries had as a po... more The encounter between Jesuits and Muslims in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries had as a point of connection the shared engagement with the spoken and written word. But Jesuit efforts both to convert and to understand this "people of the Book" were hampered by the Jesuits' lack of deep theological understanding of Muslim sacred texts, and by the fact that this faith was not at a sufficient distance from the European Catholic heartland to receive the "longer view" that Jesuits could apply to the religious traditions of India and the Far East. The overstretched commitments of the Jesuits, and the European Society's emphasis on polemical strategies, which did not prove workable in predominantly Muslim cultures, significantly limited the successes of Jesuits seeking to convert Muslims. The modest gains Jesuits made in the Ottoman and Mughal Empires and in other Muslim societies nevertheless provided narratives of achievement, heroism, and sacrifice that added elements to Jesuit self-presentation and to the narrative of the Society's progress. Jesuit contacts with Islam continued during and after the Suppression and are still an aspect of the Society's program today.

Research paper thumbnail of The Years of Jesuit Suppression, 1773–1814: Survival, Setbacks, and Transformation

Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies

The forty-one years between the Society of Jesus’s papal suppression in 1773 and its eventual res... more The forty-one years between the Society of Jesus’s papal suppression in 1773 and its eventual restoration in 1814 remain controversial, with new research and interpretations continually appearing. Shore’s narrative approaches these years, and the period preceding the suppression, from a new perspective that covers individuals not usually discussed in works dealing with this topic. As well as examining the contributions of former Jesuits to fields as diverse as ethnology—a term and concept pioneered by an ex-Jesuit—and library science, where Jesuits and ex-Jesuits laid the groundwork for the great advances of the nineteenth century, the essay also explores the period the exiled Society spent in the Russian Empire. It concludes with a discussion of the Society’s restoration in the broader context of world history.

Research paper thumbnail of The Muslim Body in the Baroque Jesuit Imagination

Al-Qanṭara, 2015

The composition will be to see with the sight of imagination the corporeal place where the thing ... more The composition will be to see with the sight of imagination the corporeal place where the thing is found which I want to contemplate.-Ignatius of Loyola 2 Insana Machometis daeleria-Anonymous Jesuit chronicler, 1687 3 Jesuits of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-even those living relatively closely to Muslim lands-often had no personal knowledge of Muslims, and yet the figure of the Muslim loomed large in the baroque Jesuit imagination. Because Jesuit formation involves the visualization of events and persons never seen, Jesuits of this period were in a special position to construct an imaginary Muslim, which they derived from translations of the Qur'an, from artworks, including book illustrations, and from the patterns and symbolism of Jesuit emblematics. This essay explores how baroque Jesuit visualization of the Muslim body was shaped by these factors, and also by other Europe-wide phenomena such as turcica literature.

Research paper thumbnail of Fragmentum annuarium Collegii Societatis Iesu Claudiopolitani : The Account of a Jesuit Mission in Transylvania, 1659-1662

Reformation & Renaissance Review, 2006

... serving in Transylvania in the decades before Austria gained control of the region in 1690, m... more ... serving in Transylvania in the decades before Austria gained control of the region in 1690, most notably Stephan us Csetc, who assumed the name Vizkeleti Istvan, but many ... Secjakab Elek, 'A kolozs-monostori apátsági zarda mint flldözöttick menhclye", Századok 21(1889), pp. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Noble Patronage and Jesuit Missions: Maria Theresia von Fugger-Wellenburg (1690���1762) and Jesuit Missionaries in China and Vietnam ��� By R. Po-Chia Hsia

Journal of Religious History, 2009

... Noble Patronage and Jesuit Missions: Maria Theresia von Fugger-Wellenburg (1690–1762) and Jes... more ... Noble Patronage and Jesuit Missions: Maria Theresia von Fugger-Wellenburg (1690–1762) and Jesuit Missionaries in China and Vietnam – By R. Po-Chia Hsia. Paul Shore. ... More content like this. Find more content: like this article. Find more content written by: Paul Shore. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Ludovico Marracci at work. The evolution of his Latin translation of the Qur’ān in the light of his newly discovered manuscripts. With an edition and a comparative linguistic analysis of sura .

Journal of Ecclesiastica History, 2018

Mannock Strickland, lived through a period of ebbing fortunes for his English Catholic co-religio... more Mannock Strickland, lived through a period of ebbing fortunes for his English Catholic co-religionists. His faith having ruled out his being called to the Bar, Strickland rose as high as he could in his chosen profession but maintained a sideline in representing the interests of several exile religious communities. He acted as agent for four English convents: the Augustinians at Louvain, the Benedictines in Dunkirk, and the Dominican and the Benedictine communities in Brussels. He also had dealings with the English male house of Carthusians at Nieuport. Strickland's papers have survived at Mapledurham in Oxfordshire, the editor of the volume at hand, Richard Williams, asserting that they are the only complete set of an English lawyer's papers to have been preserved from the period. In this volume, Williams reproduces letters, account books and bills of exchange from Strickland's dealings with the exile houses, particularly the convents. Of especial interest are the letters though, oddly, considering the book's focus on Strickland, it is not actually his letters that survive but those that he received from the nuns. Nevertheless, from the correspondence reproduced here it is possible to build a picture of Strickland's activities on their behalf, from the general investment of funds and the chasing of money owing, to the passing on of books to the expat women. Williams also provides an introduction to the volume, as well as some useful pen pictures of recurring individuals. The introduction is light on engagement with the historiography of the English convents, with some highly contentious opinions ventured, Williams very much viewing the documents with Strickland rather than the women religious as the principle point of attention. For example, Williams take a dim view of Cecily Tunstall, procuratrix for the Augustinian canonesses at Louvain, painting her in a disparaging light against Strickland's alleged professionalism, a picture that seems harsh from reading the documents. After all, the 'little' jobs that Tunstall wanted to have done may have been irksome to Strickland but they were the job of the agent. Admittedly, after all his training, Strickland may not have enjoyed acting as the eighteenth-century equivalent of a debt collector, tasked with the unenviable job of tracking down convent benefactors for non-payment, but then he did accept that role, presumably out of religious affinity, though his motives are not explored by Williams. Overall, for historians of the exile religious communities and scholars of early eighteenth-century legal and economic studies, this volume is a rich resource to be discovered and exploited from a range of perspectives. JAMES E. KELLY DURHAM UNIVERSITY Ludovico Marracci at work. The evolution of his Latin translation of the Qur'an in the light of his newly discovered manuscripts. With an edition and a comparative linguistic analysis of sura . By Reinhold F. Glei and Roberto Tottoli. (Corpus Islamo-Christianum, Series Arabica-Latina, .) Pp.  incl.  colour figs and  table. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, . €.     ;   JEH () ; doi:./S Ludovico Marracci's Alcorani textus universus is rightly regarded as a landmark in the history of Qur'an translations into Western European languages.

Research paper thumbnail of PShore CURRICULUMVITAE

Research paper thumbnail of Silentium, Space and Intelligible Sound: Thoughts on Song and the Nature of

This evening I would like to address three aspects of sonic experience in Christian worship: sile... more This evening I would like to address three aspects of sonic experience in Christian worship: silence (and its close relation, silentium), space, and what I shall call fama.

Research paper thumbnail of Vocables as Sonic Artifact

The author argues that vocables are sonic archaeological artifacts and thus help us to understand... more The author argues that vocables are sonic archaeological artifacts and thus help us to understand the difficult- to- document evolution of human vocalization. She draws upon the work of evolutionary musicologists and anthropologists to help define these vocable expressions. Examples from living genres such as Cree hunting songs, Jewish nigun and Roma Pentacostal expressions illustrate the prevalence of this spontaneous response to an immediate physical situation. The author argues that this human attribute whose longevity is assured partly because of its ease of production, mainly tongue action, has great potential to illuminate human evolution. But can vocables survive You Tube?

Research paper thumbnail of Newly released from Peter Lang

Environment Matters: Why Song Sounds the Way It Does, 2018

Shore, Environment Matters: Why Song Sounds the Way It Does Whidden and Shore propose a model of ... more Shore, Environment Matters: Why Song Sounds the Way It Does Whidden and Shore propose a model of three "habitats" for understanding and examining the varying contexts in which human song has been produced throughout history.

Research paper thumbnail of Two sample chapters from ENVIRONMENT MATTERS: WHY HUMAN SONG SOUNDS THE WAY IT DOES by

A few words of introduction… The following two essays are part of a series in an important conver... more A few words of introduction… The following two essays are part of a series in an important conversation about the relationship between physical environments and music. The documentation, drawn from mostly European and North American samples, demonstrates a strong correlation between human sonic creations and their context. This correlation involves multi-varied sonic particulars, depending upon the acoustic characteristics of the space, the sound, and the human intervention between them such as printed notation. Once descried, however, the links lead us to edifying questions about the history of our organized sound genres such as song and music.

Research paper thumbnail of Searching for Compromise? Interreligious Dialogue, Agreements, and Toleration in 16th–18th Century Eastern Europe, (Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, vol. 235), ed. Maciej Ptaszynski and Kazimierz Bem, Brill, Leiden 2022

Brill, 2022

Searching for Compromise? is a collection of articles researching the issues of toleration, inter... more Searching for Compromise? is a collection of articles researching the issues of toleration, interreligious peace, and models of living together in a religiously diverse Central and Eastern Europe during the Early Modern period. By studying theologians, legal cases, literature, individuals, and congregations this volume uncovers the particular local dynamics at play in Central and Eastern Europe. These issues are explored from the perspectives of diverse groups of Christians, such as Catholics, Hussites, Bohemian Brethren, Old Believers, Eastern Orthodox, Lutherans, Calvinists, Moravians, and Unitarians. The volume is a much-needed addition to the scholarly books written on religious conflict, toleration, and peace from the Western European perspective.