
Jesuit Libraries
Kathleen M. Comerford(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 17. November 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
92 pages
978-90-04-46280-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Society of Jesus began a tradition of collecting books and curating those collections at its foundation. These libraries were important to both their European sites and their missions; they helped build a global culture as part of early modern European evangelization. When the Society was suppressed, the Jesuits' possessions were seized and redistributed, by transfer to other religious orders, confiscation by governments, or sale to individuals. These possessions were rarely returned, and when, in 1814, the Society was restored, the Jesuits had to begin to build new libraries from scratch. Their practices of librarianship, though not their original libraries, left an intellectual legacy which still informs library science today. While there are few European Jesuit universities left, institutions of higher learning administered by the Society of Jesus remain important to the intellectual development of students and communities around the world, supported by large, rich library collections.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
170 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-46280-9 (9789004462809)
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Kathleen M. Comerford, Ph.D. (1995) is Professor of History at Georgia Southern University. Her many publications include Jesuit Foundations and Medici Power (Brill, 2006). She is the founder and director of the European Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project (www.jesuit-libraries.com).