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Jesuit Rhetoric across Space and Time
Local and Global Perspectives
Series: - Jesuit Studies, Volume: 49
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A product of Renaissance educational thought, Jesuit rhetoric has trained generations of churchmen and lay citizens right up to the present day. This book aims to show the wealth of current international research on Jesuit rhetoric, in its pedagogical dimension (from sixteenth-century manuals to today's university writing courses), its practical implementation (in speeches, music or theology). Its chapters span both religious contextsâengagements with Protestants, Jews, Orthodox Christians, and Dominicansâand geographical ones, including encounters between Europe and regions such as Sri Lanka, China, and Japan.
Sophie Conte is a full professor of Latin at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France). She has edited Nicolas Caussin: rhétorique et spiritualité à lâépoque de Louis XIII (2007).
Cinthia Gannett is a professor emerita of English and English Writing at Fairfield University (Fairfield, CT, USA). She is coeditor, with John C. Brereton, of Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies (2016).
John C. Brereton (1943â2023) was a professor emeritus of English at the University of Massachusetts (Boston, MA, USA). He has published The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875â1925 (1996).
Manfred Kraus is a professor emeritus of Classics at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität (Tübingen, Germany). He works on the history and theory of rhetoric, the theory of argumentation, Greek philosophy, Byzantine, Renaissance and Jesuit studies.
Elizabethada A. Wright is a full professor of English, linguistics and writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (USA). She and Christina R. Pinkston co-edited Catholic Womenâs Rhetoric: Ethos, the Patriarchy, and Feminist Resistance (2022).
Bartosz B. Awianowicz is a professor of Classics at Nicolaus Copernicus University (Toru´n, Poland). He has published as co-author Monita privata (secreta) Societatis Iesu(2025).
Cinthia Gannett is a professor emerita of English and English Writing at Fairfield University (Fairfield, CT, USA). She is coeditor, with John C. Brereton, of Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies (2016).
John C. Brereton (1943â2023) was a professor emeritus of English at the University of Massachusetts (Boston, MA, USA). He has published The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875â1925 (1996).
Manfred Kraus is a professor emeritus of Classics at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität (Tübingen, Germany). He works on the history and theory of rhetoric, the theory of argumentation, Greek philosophy, Byzantine, Renaissance and Jesuit studies.
Elizabethada A. Wright is a full professor of English, linguistics and writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (USA). She and Christina R. Pinkston co-edited Catholic Womenâs Rhetoric: Ethos, the Patriarchy, and Feminist Resistance (2022).
Bartosz B. Awianowicz is a professor of Classics at Nicolaus Copernicus University (Toru´n, Poland). He has published as co-author Monita privata (secreta) Societatis Iesu(2025).
Contents
Foreword: the Meaning of Jesuit Rhetoric
List of Figures
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Introduction: Jesuit Rhetoric across Space and Time: Local and Global Perspectives
âSophie Conte and Cinthia Gannett
Section 1 Rhetorical Theory and Education
â1âCipriano Suárezâ De arte rhetorica in Its Ratio studiorum Context
âLucÃa DÃaz MarroquÃn
â2âErasmus and the chria in De arte rhetorica dialogi quatuor (1611 and 1625) by Francisco de Castro, S.J.
âMarÃa Violeta Pérez Custodio
â3âQuintilianâs Amplification according to Martin Du Cygneâs Ars rhetorica âMarÃa Asunción Sánchez Manzano
â4âMetaphor and Rhetorical Theory in Francisco Leitão Ferreiraâs Nova Arte de Conceitos (New Art of Concepts)
âBelmiro Fernandes Pereira
5 Rhetoricâs Grey Eminence: Joseph de Jouvancy, S.J. (1643â1719) and His Influence on Jesuit Education
âManfred Kraus
6 âThe Same:â Mary Wardâs Jesuit Rhetorical Tradition
âElizabethada A. Wright
â7âGrounded Tradition in a Flexible Present: Eloquentia Perfecta, Multimodal Composing, and Writing for the Greater Good
âRenea Frey
Section 2 Jesuit Rhetoric in Practice: Esthetics, Politics and Theology
8 Scordatura as Dispositio: Notation, Rhetorical Figure, and Visual Effect in Heinrich Biberâs Mystery Sonatas (c.1680)
âMalachai Komanoff Bandy
9 âThat Which Is Not to Be Shown:â Jesuit Letter-Writing in Colonial Sri Lanka
âJosie Portz
10 Jesuit Speeches of Thanks in France at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century: Louis Richeome and Louis de Cressolles
âSophie Conte
11 Is There One Jesuit Style? The Example of Seventeenth-Century French Funeral Orations
âAnne Régent-Susini
12 Ut Theologia Rhetorica: Antônio Vieira and the Rhetorical-Theological Quandaries of the 1600s
âAna Lúcia de Oliveira
13 Pathos in Action: Father Antônio Vieira on the Eyesâ Liquid Voice
âMaria CecÃlia de Miranda Nogueira Coelho
14 Virtuous Imagining, Obedient Freedom: Theorhetoric in Ignatian Spirituality and Jesuit Political Theology
âSteven Mailloux
Section 3 Influences, Dialogues and Missions
â15âFray Louis of Granada: the Connection between Ordo Praedicatorum and Societas Iesu âAna Isabel Correia Martins
16 Influence, Assimilation, Elision: Hebraic Sources of Jesuit Rhetoric
âDeborah H. Holdstein
â17âRhetoric in the Study Programs of Melanchthon and the Jesuit Ratio studiorum âHanne Roer
â18âMatteo Ricciâs Tianzhu Shiyi: a Case for Including Dialectic in Comparative Rhetoric
âRoberto S. Leon
19 Influences of Jesuit Rhetoric on Orthodox Kyiv Elite in the Seventeenth Century: Stefan JavorsâkyjâHis Library and His Panegyrics
âBartosz Awianowicz
20 Rhetoric Creates Grammar: Rodrigues the Japanese Grammarian Seen from NineteenthâCentury France
âAiko Okamoto-MacPhail
Selected Bibliography
Index nominum
Foreword: the Meaning of Jesuit Rhetoric
List of Figures
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Introduction: Jesuit Rhetoric across Space and Time: Local and Global Perspectives
âSophie Conte and Cinthia Gannett
Section 1 Rhetorical Theory and Education
â1âCipriano Suárezâ De arte rhetorica in Its Ratio studiorum Context
âLucÃa DÃaz MarroquÃn
â2âErasmus and the chria in De arte rhetorica dialogi quatuor (1611 and 1625) by Francisco de Castro, S.J.
âMarÃa Violeta Pérez Custodio
â3âQuintilianâs Amplification according to Martin Du Cygneâs Ars rhetorica âMarÃa Asunción Sánchez Manzano
â4âMetaphor and Rhetorical Theory in Francisco Leitão Ferreiraâs Nova Arte de Conceitos (New Art of Concepts)
âBelmiro Fernandes Pereira
5 Rhetoricâs Grey Eminence: Joseph de Jouvancy, S.J. (1643â1719) and His Influence on Jesuit Education
âManfred Kraus
6 âThe Same:â Mary Wardâs Jesuit Rhetorical Tradition
âElizabethada A. Wright
â7âGrounded Tradition in a Flexible Present: Eloquentia Perfecta, Multimodal Composing, and Writing for the Greater Good
âRenea Frey
Section 2 Jesuit Rhetoric in Practice: Esthetics, Politics and Theology
8 Scordatura as Dispositio: Notation, Rhetorical Figure, and Visual Effect in Heinrich Biberâs Mystery Sonatas (c.1680)
âMalachai Komanoff Bandy
9 âThat Which Is Not to Be Shown:â Jesuit Letter-Writing in Colonial Sri Lanka
âJosie Portz
10 Jesuit Speeches of Thanks in France at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century: Louis Richeome and Louis de Cressolles
âSophie Conte
11 Is There One Jesuit Style? The Example of Seventeenth-Century French Funeral Orations
âAnne Régent-Susini
12 Ut Theologia Rhetorica: Antônio Vieira and the Rhetorical-Theological Quandaries of the 1600s
âAna Lúcia de Oliveira
13 Pathos in Action: Father Antônio Vieira on the Eyesâ Liquid Voice
âMaria CecÃlia de Miranda Nogueira Coelho
14 Virtuous Imagining, Obedient Freedom: Theorhetoric in Ignatian Spirituality and Jesuit Political Theology
âSteven Mailloux
Section 3 Influences, Dialogues and Missions
â15âFray Louis of Granada: the Connection between Ordo Praedicatorum and Societas Iesu âAna Isabel Correia Martins
16 Influence, Assimilation, Elision: Hebraic Sources of Jesuit Rhetoric
âDeborah H. Holdstein
â17âRhetoric in the Study Programs of Melanchthon and the Jesuit Ratio studiorum âHanne Roer
â18âMatteo Ricciâs Tianzhu Shiyi: a Case for Including Dialectic in Comparative Rhetoric
âRoberto S. Leon
19 Influences of Jesuit Rhetoric on Orthodox Kyiv Elite in the Seventeenth Century: Stefan JavorsâkyjâHis Library and His Panegyrics
âBartosz Awianowicz
20 Rhetoric Creates Grammar: Rodrigues the Japanese Grammarian Seen from NineteenthâCentury France
âAiko Okamoto-MacPhail
Selected Bibliography
Index nominum
This book is designed for a broad academic audience of students and researchers, specialists and non-specialists alike, interested in rhetoric, teaching, theology, music or grammar.