Caring for bodies or caring for souls? Jesuit military chaplains during the Wars of Religion in Flanders (late 16th - 17th century)

This proposal focuses on a specific group of European missionaries in early modern times: the Jesuits of the 'Missio castrensis' to the army of Flanders. This was the Spanish Catholic army that criss-crossed Europe between Flanders and Italy during the Eighty Years' War and the Thirty Years' War (1568-1648). The comparative analysis of several unpublished sources makes it possible to follow the radical change in the attitude of these missionaries towards the men who were the object of their mission. While the war seems never to end, the correspondence of the missionaries, but also the mission... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Mostaccio, Silvia
International Simposium, Circa missiones: Jesuit understanding of mission through the centuries
Dokumenttyp: conferenceObject
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Schlagwörter: Early Modern Catholicism / Society of Jesus / missio castrensis / masculinities / bodies and violence / war ans religion
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/277392