Open Access¿La ilustre Compañía? Memoria y hagiografía a través de las vidas jesuitas de los padres Juan Eusebio Nieremberg y Alonso de Andrade (1643-1667)
Author(s) -
José Luis Betrán
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
hispania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.189
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1988-8368
pISSN - 0018-2141
DOI - 10.3989/hispania.2014.021
Subject(s) - art , humanities
The «Varones Ilustres de la Compañía de Jesús» (1643-1667) study, a work of the Spanish Jesuits Juan Eusebio Nieremberg and Alonso de Andrade, let us to know the keys of the baroque hagiographic discourse in the construction of a community identity inside the order and, what is more, let us discover a politic reading in the life of some members, with a special attention to the Jesuits generals, in a politic and religious crisis context lived by the Jesus Company in Spain in Felipe IV times