Bibliography:EBC Bibliography 0688

Shore, Paul J.. In Carcere; Ad Dupplicium: Jesuit Encounters in Prison and in Places of Execution. Reflections on the Early Modern Period. (2012).

Name(s)	Shore, Paul J.
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Title	In Carcere; Ad Dupplicium: Jesuit Encounters in Prison and in Places of Execution. Reflections on the Early Modern Period
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Year	2012
Language(s)	eng
Contained in	European Review of History 19 (2012), 183-200
Bibliographic level	Paper in journal
Catalogue description	https://acnpsearch.unibo.it/journal/2114813
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Abstract

Jesuits of the early-modern period had, as a major aspect of their missions and ministry, encounters with prisoners and with those condemned to execution. The Jesuit experience of these encounters was profoundly influenced by the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, undertaken by every Jesuit. In these exercises the retreatant is required to visualise the physical sufferings of Christ. During the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Jesuits were closely connected, from several perspectives, with the imprisonment and execution of scores of individuals. While many of the leading Jesuit theoreticians of the time, such as Roberto Bellarmino, supported the right of the secular state to exercise capital punishment, a tension persisted between the idea of common humanity expounded in the Spiritual Exercises and the role of the Jesuits as supporters of the Habsburg dynasty that conducted these public executions. This essay explores the Jesuit encounter along the eastern and northern Habsburg peripheries and on the ‘frontiers of faith’ with prisoners and the condemned, utilising archival materials, as a contribution to the intellectual history of the Jesuits and to the cultural history of the region.