It is about the multiple activities of the Society of Jesus, one of the most present - if not the most - religious orders in Brazil during the so-called colonial period, in the colonies of the Spanish Crown in America and ...

The corporal treatment of the people occupied a central place in the Jesuits' missionary activity. In addition to attending to patients in hospitals and infirmaries, religious from the Society of Jesus produced and recorded ...

In addition to the evangelizing and missionary activities, the Society of Jesus was prominent in the establishment of apothecaries and santas casas in places where specialized doctors and apothecaries were not found. In ...

The Japanese Letters (Epistolae Iapanicae) are documents which record the activity of the Portuguese Jesuits in Japanese territory from 1549. These letters were intended to report to the crown the actions (and consequently ...

This paper distinguishes four perspectives in the process of reception of Copernicanism in colonial Rio de la Plata: (1) the discussion of the systems of the world in the University of Córdoba by the Jesuits until 1767 (2) ...

This paper is going to deal with the representation of Nature in several Jesuit letters written in Japan and published in Europe, in the last years of the 16th century. By doing so, this presentation is contributing to a ...