In spite of the Tridentine and post-Tridentine cloistered legislation, the 16th and 17th centuries witnessed the foundation in Italy, Europe and the mission countries of numerous semi-religious female congregations, without clausura and without solemn vows, founded, co-founded or directed by the fathers of the Society of Jesus. These congregations, called “Jesuitesses”, were inspired by the Jesuit Constitutions and Ignatian spirituality, especially in the educational apostolate. Through an in-depth archival research, the present study offers a vast census of the numerous houses of Jesuitesses present in Italy between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries, showing, through the analysis of the network of relations between these institutes as well as the economic, juridical, educational and spiritual peculiarities of the semi-religious compared to the cloistered nuns, the substantial compactness and unity of this phenomenon, based on a common Jesuit identity. The aim is also to shed light on the contrasts and contradictions related to the affirmation of the Jesuitesses, which led to bitter internal clashes within the Society of Jesus, various inquisitorial trials and harsh jurisdictional conflicts between secular and ecclesiastical powers.
A dispetto della legislazione claustrale tridentina e post-tridentina, tra XVI e XVII secolo si assistette all’emergere in Italia, in Europa e nei paesi di missione di numerose congregazioni semireligiose femminili insegnanti, senza clausura e senza voti solenni, fondate, co-fondate o dirette dai padri della Compagnia di Gesù, che si ispiravano alle Costituzioni e alla spiritualità ignaziana, specie nell’apostolato educativo. Attraverso un approfondito scavo archivistico, il presente studio offre un vasto censimento delle numerose case di “gesuitesse” presenti in Italia tra Cinquecento e Seicento, mostrando, tramite l’analisi delle reti di relazioni tra questi istituti nonché delle peculiarità economiche, giuridiche, educative e spirituali delle semireligiose rispetto alle monache claustrali, la sostanziale compattezza e unità di questo fenomeno, fondato sulla comune identità gesuitica. Con ciò si intende, inoltre, far luce sui contrasti e sulle contraddizioni legati all’affermazione delle gesuitesse, che portarono ad aspri scontri interni alla Compagnia di Gesù, a diversi processi inquisitoriali e a duri conflitti giurisdizionali tra poteri secolari ed ecclesiastici.
ARLATI, FABIO, GESUITI E GESUITESSE. LA COMPAGNIA DI GESU' E LE CONGREGAZIONI SEMIRELIGIOSE FEMMINILI IN ITALIA TRA XVI E XVII SECOLO, BIANCHI, ANGELO, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano:Ciclo XXXIII [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/284886]
GESUITI E GESUITESSE. LA COMPAGNIA DI GESU' E LE CONGREGAZIONI SEMIRELIGIOSE FEMMINILI IN ITALIA TRA XVI E XVII SECOLO
Arlati, Fabio
2021
Abstract
In spite of the Tridentine and post-Tridentine cloistered legislation, the 16th and 17th centuries witnessed the foundation in Italy, Europe and the mission countries of numerous semi-religious female congregations, without clausura and without solemn vows, founded, co-founded or directed by the fathers of the Society of Jesus. These congregations, called “Jesuitesses”, were inspired by the Jesuit Constitutions and Ignatian spirituality, especially in the educational apostolate. Through an in-depth archival research, the present study offers a vast census of the numerous houses of Jesuitesses present in Italy between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries, showing, through the analysis of the network of relations between these institutes as well as the economic, juridical, educational and spiritual peculiarities of the semi-religious compared to the cloistered nuns, the substantial compactness and unity of this phenomenon, based on a common Jesuit identity. The aim is also to shed light on the contrasts and contradictions related to the affirmation of the Jesuitesses, which led to bitter internal clashes within the Society of Jesus, various inquisitorial trials and harsh jurisdictional conflicts between secular and ecclesiastical powers.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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