The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews
Jesuits of Jewish Ancestry and Purity-of-Blood Laws in the Early Society of Jesus
Biographical note
Robert A. Maryks, Ph.D. (2006) History, Fordham University, is Associate Professor of History at Bronx CC of the City University of New York. He has published extensively on the history of Jesuits, including Saint Cicero and the Jesuits: The Influence of the Liberal Arts on the Adoption of Moral Probabilism (Ashgate, 2008) and The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews: Jesuits of Jewish Ancestry and Purity-of-Blood Laws in the Early Society of Jesus (Brill, 2009).
Readership
All those interested in converso and Jesuit history, the history of Catholicism, the history of late medieval and early modern Iberia and Italy, as well as Spanish literature historians, historians of law, and theologians.
Reviews
“This is a solid, scholarly volume that offers new material and new viewpoints on a theme that continues to excite interest.”
Henry Kamen, Barcelona. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 62 (2011), pp. 832-833.
"splendid book" ... "This is required reading for all students of early Jesuit history, and it will also be of great interest to historians of early modern attitudes toward religious and racial difference".
Jonathan Wright, Hartlepool. In: Theological Studies, Vol. 71, No. 4 (December 2010), pp. 963-964.
"tightly focused, highly erudite, fascinating" [...] "The argument in each chapter is supported by copious quotations from primary sources, many of them unpublished and little-known. To a nonspecialist Maryks’s expertise in this huge body of Jesuit literature is dazzling, and it is hard to imagine how he could be refuted. This is about as solid a piece of historical argumentation as I have ever seen. Despite the detail and erudition of the text, Maryks keeps the story moving from one point to the next". [...] "This is a book for academics, and it is specialized, but it is an excellent and important work with implications that go far beyond its immediate topic".
Matt Goldosh, The Ohio State University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, 63 (Winter 2010), pp. 1344-1345.
"Die Arbeit von Maryks ist gut dokumentiert und flüssig geschrieben...Der intendierte, „different reading of the sources and secondary literature“ (S. XXXII) aufgrund von Archivmaterial ist Maryks weitgehend gelungen."
Mariano Delgado, Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie, Vol. 58, no. 2, (2011), pp. 596-598.
"una investigación rica y sugerente".
Juan A. Estrada. In: Archivo Teológico Granadino, Vol. 75 (2012), pp. 258-259.
Henry Kamen, Barcelona. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 62 (2011), pp. 832-833.
"splendid book" ... "This is required reading for all students of early Jesuit history, and it will also be of great interest to historians of early modern attitudes toward religious and racial difference".
Jonathan Wright, Hartlepool. In: Theological Studies, Vol. 71, No. 4 (December 2010), pp. 963-964.
"tightly focused, highly erudite, fascinating" [...] "The argument in each chapter is supported by copious quotations from primary sources, many of them unpublished and little-known. To a nonspecialist Maryks’s expertise in this huge body of Jesuit literature is dazzling, and it is hard to imagine how he could be refuted. This is about as solid a piece of historical argumentation as I have ever seen. Despite the detail and erudition of the text, Maryks keeps the story moving from one point to the next". [...] "This is a book for academics, and it is specialized, but it is an excellent and important work with implications that go far beyond its immediate topic".
Matt Goldosh, The Ohio State University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, 63 (Winter 2010), pp. 1344-1345.
"Die Arbeit von Maryks ist gut dokumentiert und flüssig geschrieben...Der intendierte, „different reading of the sources and secondary literature“ (S. XXXII) aufgrund von Archivmaterial ist Maryks weitgehend gelungen."
Mariano Delgado, Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie, Vol. 58, no. 2, (2011), pp. 596-598.
"una investigación rica y sugerente".
Juan A. Estrada. In: Archivo Teológico Granadino, Vol. 75 (2012), pp. 258-259.
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. The Historical Context of Purity-of-Blood Discrimination (1391-1547)
Sentencia-Estatuto of Mayor Pero de Sarmiento (1449)
Alonso de Cartagena and Fray Alonso de Oropesa
Purity-of-blood Statutes of Archbishop Silíceo (1547)
Defensio Toletani Statuti of Bishop Diego de Simancas (1573)
2. Early Jesuit Pro-converso Policy (1540-72)
Ignatius of Loyola as a “deep spiritual Semite”
Jerónimo Nadal’s Opposition to the Purity-of-blood Legislation
The Converso Triumvirate: the Election of Diego Laínez
Francisco de Borja’s Infinite Love of Conversos
Chapter 3. Discrimination Against Jesuits of Jewish Lineage (1573-93)
Italo-Portuguese Anti-converso Lobby at General Congregation Three
Everard Mercurian’s “House Cleansing”
Memorialistas’ Revolt against Rome
Benedetto Palmio’s Converso-phobic Memorial
Claudio Acquaviva’s Discriminatory Measures
Chapter 4. Jesuit Opposition to the Purity-of-blood Discrimination (1576-1608)
Antonio Possevino
Diego de Guzmán
Pedro de Ribadeneyra
García Girón de Alarcón
Juan de Mariana
Conclusion
Appendix I
Appendix II
Bibliography
Index
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. The Historical Context of Purity-of-Blood Discrimination (1391-1547)
Sentencia-Estatuto of Mayor Pero de Sarmiento (1449)
Alonso de Cartagena and Fray Alonso de Oropesa
Purity-of-blood Statutes of Archbishop Silíceo (1547)
Defensio Toletani Statuti of Bishop Diego de Simancas (1573)
2. Early Jesuit Pro-converso Policy (1540-72)
Ignatius of Loyola as a “deep spiritual Semite”
Jerónimo Nadal’s Opposition to the Purity-of-blood Legislation
The Converso Triumvirate: the Election of Diego Laínez
Francisco de Borja’s Infinite Love of Conversos
Chapter 3. Discrimination Against Jesuits of Jewish Lineage (1573-93)
Italo-Portuguese Anti-converso Lobby at General Congregation Three
Everard Mercurian’s “House Cleansing”
Memorialistas’ Revolt against Rome
Benedetto Palmio’s Converso-phobic Memorial
Claudio Acquaviva’s Discriminatory Measures
Chapter 4. Jesuit Opposition to the Purity-of-blood Discrimination (1576-1608)
Antonio Possevino
Diego de Guzmán
Pedro de Ribadeneyra
García Girón de Alarcón
Juan de Mariana
Conclusion
Appendix I
Appendix II
Bibliography
Index
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