Political Agents and Cultural Mediators:

Jesuit Procurators in a Globalizing World (Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries)
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-75057-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 52, 386 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Jesuit Studies

This volume traces the complex, global-scale circulation of procurators as non-state cosmopolitan agents, along with the movement of goods and knowledge, across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa, on a scale that was, for the first time, truly global.The provincial congregations and their respective procurators (procuratores provinciae) emerged as key figures within the complex administrative structures of the Society of Jesus, operating between Rome and the provinces, particularly in overseas territories. Their activities at the Roman court challenge the traditionally centralized and hierarchical vision of the Ignatian order, as these procurators positioned themselves as influential diplomatic agents in key decision-making processes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Coello de la Rosa, Alexandre

Fechner, Fabian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Alexandre Coello de la Rosa is Professor of Latin American History and the Philippines in the Department of Humanities at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His main lines of research deal with historical anthropology, chronicles of the Indies, and early modern Spanish colonialism, specifically focused on the ecclesiastical history of the Mariana Islands and the Philippines.

Fabian Fechner is a post-doctoral research fellow in global history at the University of Hagen (Westfalia). His research interests include cultural contacts and the history of religion. His doctoral thesis explores early modern globalizing politics and the Paraguayan Jesuit missions.