THE JESUITS
The Jesuits
A HISTORY
MARKUS FRIEDRICH
TRANSLATED BY
JOHN NOL DILLON
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON & OXFORD
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Names: Friedrich, Markus, author. | Dillon, John Nol, translator.
Title: The Jesuits : a history / Markus Friedrich ; translated by John Nol Dillon.
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Description: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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CONTENTS
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ABBREVIATIONS
ACDF | Archivio della Congregazione per la dottrina della Fede |
AD | Archives dpartementales |
AFSJ | Archives franaises de la Socit de Jsus |
AN | Archives nationales, Paris |
ARSI | Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu |
BayHStA | Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Munich |
BN | Biblioteca Nazionale, Rome |
BnF | Bibliotque nationale de France, Paris |
Braunsberger | Braunsberger, Otto, ed. Beati Petri Canisii Societatis Jesu, Epistolae & Acta. 8 vols. Freiburg 18961923 |
CG | Padberg, John W., Martin D. OKeefe, and John McCarthy. For Matters of Greater Moment: The First Thirty Jesuit General Congregations. St. Louis, MO, 1994 (cited by General Congregation, decree, and page number) |
Clm | Codex latinus monaciensis. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich |
Const | The Constitutions of the Society of Jesus and Their Complementary Norms: A Complete English Translation of Official Latin Texts, translated by George E. Ganss, S.J. St. Louis, MO, 1996 |
DBI | Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. 84 vols. thus far. Rome 1960present |
DHCJ | ONeill, Charles E., ed. Diccionario histrico de la Compaa de Jess. Biogrfico-Temtico. 4 vols. Rome 2001 |
Duhr | Duhr, Bernhard. Geschichte der Jesuiten in den Lndern Deutscher Zunge. 4 vols. in 6. Freiburg 191328 |
EpIgn | S. Ignatii de Loyola Epistolae. 12 vols. Rome 196468 |
EpMixt | Epistolae mixtae ex variis Europae locis. 5 vols. Rome 18981901 |
EpNad | Epistolae et Monumenta P. Hieronymi Nadal. 6 vols. Rome 18981964 |
EpSalm | Epistolae P. Alphonsi Salmeronis. 2 vols. Madrid 19067 |
Ex | Ignatius of Loyola, The Spiritual Exercises, in Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Personal Writings. Reminiscences, Spiritual Diary, Select Letters including the text of the Spiritual Exercises, trans. Joseph A. Munitz and Philip Endean, 281361. London 1996 |
FontNarr | Fontes narrativi de S. Ignatio de Loyola et de Societatis Iesu initiis. 4 vols. Rome 194365 |
FontRicc | DElia, Pasquale, ed. Fonti Ricciane. 3 vols. Rome 194249 |
GE | The Constitutions of the Society of Jesus and Their Complementary Norms: A Complete English Translation of Official Latin Texts, translated by George E. Ganss, S.J. St. Louis, MO, 1996 |
Imago | Imago primi saeculi. Rome 1640 |
Inst | Institutum Societatis Iesu. 3 vols. Florence, 189293 |
JR | Thwaites, Reuben Gold, ed. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 16101791. 73 vols. Cleveland 18961901 |
Leibniz | Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. Werke. Akademie Edition in nine series. Berlin 1923present |
LittQuadr | Litterae quadrimestres ex universis praeter Indiam et Brasiliam locis [] Romam missae. 7 vols. Rome 18951932 |
MonBor | Monumenta Borgia. 7 vols. Madrid 18982009 |
MonBras | Monumenta Brasiliae. 5 vols. Rome 195668 |
MonFab | Fabri Monumenta. Madrid 1914 |
MonInd | Documenta Indica. 18 vols. Rome 194888 |
MonMex | Monumenta Mexicana. 8 vols. Rome 195691 |
MonPaed | Monumenta Paedagogica. 7 vols. Rome 196592 |
MonPeru | Monumenta Peruana. 8 vols. Rome 195486 |
MonRib | Monumenta Ribadeneira. 2 vols. Madrid 192023 |
Pastor | von Pastor, Ludwig. Geschichte der Ppste. 16 vols. Freiburg 18861933 |
PolChron | Polanco, Juan Alfonso de. Vita Ignatii Loiolae et rerum Societatis Jesu historica. 6 vols. Madrid 189498 |
RAA | Rijksarchief te Antwerpen, Beveren |
Ratio | Ratio Studiorum, in MonPaed 5:353454 |
Reminisc. | Ignatius of Loyola, Reminiscences (Autobiography), in Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Personal Writings. Reminiscences, Spiritual Diary, Select Letters Including the Text of the Spiritual Exercises, trans. Joseph A. Munitz and Philip Endean, 367. London 1996 |
Schatz | Schatz, Klaus. Geschichte der deutschen Jesuiten (18141983) |