Adrien Gambart’s Emblem Book (1664)
The Life of St. Francis de Sales in Symbols

Edited by Terence O’Reilly

This volume includes the late Elisabeth Stopp’s previously unpublished study of the emblem book of Adrien Gambart (1660-68), an introductory essay by Agnès Guiderdoni-Bruslè that updates and supplements Stopp’s work, and a facsimile of Gambart’s emblem book. This remarkable book was inspired by the life and writings of St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684)
The First Woman in the World to Earn a University Degree
Francesco Ludovico Maschietto

Even in 17th-century Italy, news spread quickly. On June 25, 1678, an enormous crowd that included nobles, knights, city officials, ladies, scholarly men, the diocesan vicar general, and the entire College of Philosophers and Physicians gathered at the University of Padua to witness Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia stand for her oral doctoral examination-the first time in history that a woman had been accorded this privilege!

Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels
Volume I: The Infancy Narratives (2003)
Volume II: The Passion Narratives (2008)
Volume III: The Infancy Narratives (2005)

This book combined engravings portraying episodes from the Gospels executed by the premier Flemish engravers of the day with Nadal’s explanatory notes and meditations on these episodes as depicted in the engravings, in order to help young Jesuit seminarians to meditate on the Gospels that they heard read at Sunday Mass.

Christophorus Blancus’ Engravings for Jerónimo Gracián’s Summary of the Excellencies of St. Joseph

Joseph F. Chorpenning, O.S.F.S.

The first editions of the Discalced Carmelite friar Jerónimo Gracián’s Summary of the Excellencies of St. Joseph were illustrated with a set of six engravings, which may have been reproduced in several subsequent editions. This monograph is a companion volume to the Just Man anthology, also by Chorpenning.

Animating History:
The Biographical Pulse

David H. Burton

This volume of collected essays intends to highliglht the interaction of people and ideas. The grouping of essays focuses on the relationship of people and events. Considered altogether, this collection regards lives observed as a source of historical insight. Yet this bias depends intrinsically on the historical era. History, therefore, remains very close to the center of each piece.

Church, Culture and Curriculum:
Theology and Mathematics in the Jesuit Ratio Studiorum

Church, Culture and Curriculum commemorates this anniversary of the Ratio Studiorum, the renowned study plan of the Society of Jesus, by making available for the first time in English translation three seminal studies. Originally published in Latin or Italian by Ladislaus Lukacs, S.J., and Giuseppe Cosentino, on the Jesuit Ratio Studiorum. This volume was also published in connection with the international conference “Jesuit Education 21,” held at Saint Joseph’s University in June 1999.

Constructing a Saint Through Images:
The 1609 Illustrated Biography of Ignatius of Loyola
Introductory essay by John W. O'Malley, S.J.

In 1609 Pope Paul V beatified Ignatius of Loyola. To celebrate, the Jesuits in Rome produced a volume of 81 copper-plate engravings depicting Ignatius' life.; it was the most elaborate celebratory volume ever produced for a new saint. To honor the 400th anniversary of this event, we have produced Constructing a Saint Through Images, which includes a facsimile edition of the engravings and an English translation of the captions and an introduction by John W. O'Malley, S.J.

Creed and Culture
Jesuit Studies of Pope John Paul II

In the late 1980s a group of American and Canadian Jesuit scholars founded the John Paul II Jesuit Symposium. Its purpose is to sponsor scholarly discussion on the rich teaching of John Paul II.The Symposium is interdisciplinary, welcoming Jesuits from a variety of fields of inquiry: theology, philosophy, law, social science, physical science, fine arts, history, and literature. It is also pluralist in that it encourages debate on different interpretations of the meaning and pastoral implications of the pope’s thought.

 

Devotion, The Society of Jesus, and the Idea of St. Joseph

Michael W. Maher, S.J.

In this study, Michael W. Maher, S.J., assistant professor of History at Saint Louis University and a member of the Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome, explores the Jesuits’ contribution to the evolution of veneration of St. Joseph. Fr. Maher sees this contribution as closely linked to the spiritual practices and methods found in St. Ignatius Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises, as well as to the congregations or sodalities founded by the Jesuits.