The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews: Jesuits of Jewish Ancestry and Purity-Of-Blood Laws in the Early Society of Jesus

by Robert Aleksander Maryks

In The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews the author explains how Christians with Jewish family backgrounds went within less than forty years from having a leading role in the foundation of the Society of Jesus to being prohibited from membership in it. The author works at the intersection to two important historical topics, each of which attracts considerable scholarly attention but that have never received sustained and careful attention...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900417981X
• ISBN13: 9789004179813
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.6"