Naslov
Geography in the Service of Faith: Jesuit Geographical Textbooks in Early Modern Central Europe

Autori
Shek Brnardić, Teodora

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
XV. International Conference of Historical Geographers. 6.-10. 8. 2012. Prague, Czechia, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science. Book of Abstracts / Pavel Chromy et al. - Prag : Czech Geographical Society, 2012, 59-59

ISBN
978-80-904521-8-3

Skup
XV. International Conference of Historical geographers

Mjesto i datum
Prag, Češka Republika, 06.08.2012. - 10.08.2012

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
geography textbooks; Jesuits-Croatia; Jakov Pejačević

Sažetak
The Jesuit Catholic order was one of the most important cultural mediators in the early modern world: they mediated between secular and ecclesiastical politics, between Europe and the East, between Catholics and non-Catholics, etc. As missionaries they were in the position to travel worldwide and to produce in passing the global scientific knowledge. This was then distributed and disseminated in the Jesuit colleges and universities as their local branches in the whole of Catholic Europe. Christian humanism, as promoted by the Jesuits, put forward the view that the path to the love and knowledge of God was the way of action rather than contemplation. In this way the connection was established between knowledge and action. This in turn prepared the way for accepting practical knowledge as relevant and for putting human reality in the centre of interest. One of such realities was bringing together religion and civility, which became the hallmark of Jesuit educational philosophy. In this framework the promulgation of geographical culture played a prominent role, since it served for the political and religious purposes by furnishing the elite with the useful information from the terrain. In my paper I will analyze different aspects of the Jesuit geographical discourse in the early modern textbooks intended for college students in the Kingdom of Hungary-Croatia and in the Austrian provinces.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest

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