Life and letters of Fathers Ponziglione, Schoenmakers, and other early Jesuits at Osage mission. Sketch of St. Francis' church. Life of Mother Bridget. By W.W. Graves . .

http://www.archive.org/details/ponziglionescho00gravrich

Tacitus' Germania and the Jesuit Relations: Intertextuality in the Transatlantic World of the Early Jesuits in New France.

The first Europeans who wrote about the Indigenous people of the newly discovered Americas, not only used medieval, but also classical literature as a tool of reference to describe 'otherness.' As true humanists, the French Jesuits who arrived in the New World were deeply influenced by their classical education and, as claimed by Grafton, reverted to ancient ethnographic texts, like Tacitus' Germania, to support their analyse of the Indigenous people they encountered. Books talk to books. Inspired by Germania, the early French Jesuits managed to convey to their readers a subtle critique of their own civilization, enhancing, like Tacitus, the virtuous aspect of the so-called barbarians they described while illustrating the corruption of their respective civilized worlds. This thesis suggests that the essence of Tacitus' work is definitively present in Pierre Biard's letters and his Relation. His testimonies illustrate the connection the early French Jesuits had with the humanist thought of their time.

The Lord of Heaven in the Inner Chambers: Jesuits, Women, and Domestic Christianity (ca. 1580-1690)

The study focuses on gender norms and practices in Chinese Christian communities established by Jesuit missionary activity during the long seventeenth century. It analyzes how European and Chinese gender norms and practices affected each other in the context of the Sino-Western cultural contact initiated by the missionaries. The thesis consists of two parts. First, it analyzes the ways in which European Jesuits engaged with Chinese gender relations in the course of their mission in China. The study demonstrates that the Jesuits’ adoption of the Chinese scholar-gentry’s habitus entailed a partial adaptation to Confucian gender norms. The latter placed great emphasis on gender segregation and therefore discouraged direct communication between missionaries and Chinese women. This resulted in the emergence of organizational and devotional arrangements of Christian communities specific to China. Second, the study discusses Chinese Christian women's religious culture that emerged in the absence of a strong missionary presence among female devotees. It points out that Chinese Christian women created their own ritual culture and religious sociability in the domestic context, and that they actively took part in shaping Chinese Christianity as masters of domestic rituals.

The Jesuits : their constitution and teaching ; an historical sketch /

Bibliographical footnotes.

The history of Paraguay : containing ... a full and authentic account of the establishments formed there by the Jesuits, from among the savage natives ... establishments allowed to have realized the sublime ideas of Fenelon, Sir Thomas Moore, and Plato /

Mode of access: Internet.

A new and accurate history of South-America : containing a particular account of some accidents leading to the discovery of the New World, of the discovery made by Columbus, and other adventures ... : with a full description of the spanish provinces of Chili, Paraguay, and Terra Firma : of Guiana, particularly of Surinam ..., and of Cayenne belonging to the french : of Brazil, subject to the Crown of Portugal : of that part of Paraguay possessed by the Jesuits, where they have established a new monarchy ... : including the geographical, natural, political, and commercial history of every province, with the religion, manners, and customs of the inhabitants : with Dissertations on the british, spanish, portuguese, french, dutch, and indian settlements /

Sabin,

The black pope; or, The Jesuits' conspiracy against American institutions.

"Literature consulted": p. 13.

The new conspiracy against the Jesuits : detected and briefly exposed, with a short account of their institute, and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion /

Mode of access: Internet.

Secret instructions of the Jesuits. Printed verbatim from the London copy of 1725. To which is prefixed an historical essay; with an appendix of notes, by the editor of the Protestant...

First published under the title Monita privata Societatis Jesu, Notobrigae, 1612 (i.e. Cracow, 1614). cf. Wetzer und Welte's kirchenlexikon. 2. aufl. 1886-1901. v. 8, col. 1776.

Secret instructions of the Jesuits: with an appendix, containing a short historical account of the Society of the Jesuits, their maxims, the Jesuits' oath, etc. etc.

First published under title, Monita privata Societatis Jesu, Notobrigae, 1612 (i.e. Cracow, 1614) cf. Wetzer und Welte's Kirchenlexikon. 2 aufl. 1886-1901. v. 8, col. 1776.

The educational systems of the Puritans and Jesuits compared : a premium essay /

Available in microfilm from University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Mich., in the series : American culture series ; reel 380.5.

History of the Jesuits: from the foundation of their society to its suppression by Pope Clement XIV; their mission, throughout the world; their educational system and literature; with their revival and present state.

Mode of access: Internet.