| Description |
1 online resource (274 pages). |
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text file PDF rda |
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Dictionary |
| Series |
Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Missionary Men on the Move -- 1 Manly Missions -- 2 Braving the Waves with Francis Xavier -- 3 Of Missionaries, Martyrs, and Makahnas -- 4 Martyrdom, Matrilineality, and the Virgin Mary -- 5 Writing Women's Lives and Mapping Indigenous Spaces -- Conclusion and Epilogue -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Index |
| Summary |
How did gender shape the expanding Jesuit enterprise in the early modern world? What did it take to become a missionary man? And how did missionary masculinity align itself with the European colonial project? This book highlights the central importance of male affective ties and masculine mimesis in the formation of the Jesuit missions, as well as the significance of patriarchal dynamics. Focussing on previously neglected German figures, Strasser shows how stories of exemplary male behavior circulated across national boundaries, directing the hearts and feet of men throughout Europe towards Jesuit missions in faraway lands. The sixteenth-century Iberian exemplars of Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, disseminated in print and visual media, inspired late seventeenth-century Jesuits from German-speaking lands to bring Catholicism and European gender norms to the Spanish-controlled Pacific. As Strasser demonstrates, the age of global missions hinged on the reproduction of missionary manhood in print and real life. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020). |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Early modern masculinities, gender, missions, Jesuits, German.
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History.
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HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century.
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| Standard No. |
10.1515/9789048537525 doi |
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