This October, the book Jesuitas. Impacto cultural en la Monarquía Hispana (1540-1767) (Mensajero-Salterrae), a monumental work that compiles in two volumes, of some 1400 pages, the great history of the apostolic mission of the Society of Jesus from its foundation, 1540, until the expulsion decreed by the Spanish monarch Carlos III, in 1767. The historian Henar Pizarro is the director of this project and explained during his presentation that the volume is not a research project but a book for a wide public, a text that "highlights the cultural heritage and the originality of the work of the Jesuits" as well as the impact they generated wherever they settled, and which is presented in a way that is accessible to the non-specialist reader, with fluid writing and an essayistic tone. The volume, as he explained, covers all areas of culture: from documentary heritage and written culture, the heritage of the spirit (Bible, Theology, Spirituality), the Sciences, Mission Scenarios, artistic heritage and visual culture.
This cultural impact referred to in the title of the work tells the story of the ambitious mission of the Society, nourished by a rigorous and profound formation and developed in various fields of knowledge through the institutions they were founding - a large network of colleges and popular missions. During this stage of their first 227 years of life, the Jesuits contributed significantly and with great impact to the construction of a "modern era" that expanded throughout the territories of the Hispanic Monarchy.
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