The time scale of the study is from the "high tide" of the Society (often labeled "the first multinational corporation") in the fourth decade of the seventeenth century, until its suppression in 1773 by Pope Clement XIV. The book examines several of the communities situated along the periphery and the records that they left behind about their interactions with the local populations. It constructs a vivid picture of Jesuit life on the frontier that is built up in mosaic fashion and livened by compelling anecdotes. The Jesuits of Royal Hungary exercised a baroque expression modeled after the larger western cities of the Habsburg lands, which was a fragile splendor in part defined by the need to defend Catholicism from the hostility of Orthodox, Lutherans, Calvinists, and others.
- ISBN10 6613532991
- ISBN13 9786613532992
- Publish Date 20 April 2012 (first published 10 March 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 5 July 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Central European University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 395
- Language English