Jesuit Polymath of Madrid: The Literary Enterprise of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg 1595-1658 (Jesuit Studies: Modernity Through the Prism of Jesuit History, 4) - Hardcover

Hendrickson, D Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004293515 ISBN 13: 9789004293519

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2015

Synopsis

In Jesuit Polymath of Madrid D. Scott Hendrickson offers the first English-language account of the life and work of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595-1658), a leading intellectual in Spain during the turbulent decades of the mid-seventeenth century. Most remembered as a prominent ascetic in the neo-Platonic tradition, Nieremberg emerges here as a writer deeply indebted to the legacy of Ignatius Loyola and his Spiritual Exercises.

Hendrickson convincingly shows how Nieremberg drew from his formation in the Jesuit order at the time of its first centenary to engage the cultural and intellectual currents of the Spanish Golden Age. As an author of some seventy-five works, which represent several genres and were translated throughout Europe and abroad, Nieremberg's literary enterprise demands attention.

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About the Author

D. Scott Hendrickson, S.J., D.Phil. (2013), Oxford University, is Assistant Professor of Spanish Studies and Graduate Program Director at Loyola University Chicago. He has published articles on catechetical texts used in seventeenth-century Spain and the Jesuit reductions of Paraguay.

Review

"Thoroughly and carefully researched, elegantly written, and clearly organized, this study serves as an excellent introduction to Nieremberg and his age. [...] This book is a landmark achievement."
Carlos Eire, Yale University. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies 3/4 (2016), pp. 694-696.

"Essential reading for those interested in Jesuit studies and the intellectual history of early modern Spain."
Xavier Tubau, Hamilton College. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Summer 2017), pp. 767-769.

"This volume is an excellent introduction to Spanish literary and spiritual motifs of the seventeenth century. Hendrickson ably succeeds in his case for Nieremberg's continued place in the pantheon of Jesuit writers."
Barton T. Geger, SJ, Regis University, Denver. In: Theological Studies 77/3 (2016), pp. 742-743.

"Como suele ser habitual en la editorial Brill, la factura del libro es magnífica en cuanto a su impresión, encuadernación e ilustración, destacando en esto último las acertadas incursiones que realiza en la pintura del sevillano Valdés Leal, el último gran pintor alegórico del Barroco español. Valoriza más la edición la inclusión de útiles apéndices (una bibliografía nierembergiana completa y una selección de decretos trentinos aludidos), de una completa y bien clasificada bibliografía y de un imprescindible índice onomástico y temático en donde se trasluce la enorme cantidad de recursos empleados en esta exitosa investigación."
Francisco José Aranda Pérez, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. In: Vínculos de Historia 5 (2016), pp. 381-383.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 9004293515
• ISBN 13: 9789004293519
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 243