Early Guaraní Printing: Nieremberg's De la diferencia and the Global Dissemination of Seventeenth-Century Spanish Asceticism

This article examines both how and why the Spanish Jesuit Juan Eusebio Nieremberg's (1595-1658) once famous treatise De la diferencia entre lo temporal y eterno (1640) came to be translated and printed in the Paraguay reductions in 1705, the significance it holds in the transmission of Iberian...

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Published in:Journal of Jesuit studies
Main Author: Hendrickson, D. Scott 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2018]
In: Journal of Jesuit studies
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KCA Monasticism; religious orders
KDB Roman Catholic Church
RJ Mission; missiology
Further subjects:B Jesuit missions
B Spanish asceticism
B reducciones
B Paraguay
B Guaraní printing
B early modern book trade
B Juan Eusebio Nieremberg
B global network
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Summary:This article examines both how and why the Spanish Jesuit Juan Eusebio Nieremberg's (1595-1658) once famous treatise De la diferencia entre lo temporal y eterno (1640) came to be translated and printed in the Paraguay reductions in 1705, the significance it holds in the transmission of Iberian asceticism to the American missions and how Juan Yaparí and other Guaraní craftsmen participated in its printing and enhanced its illustration. It situates the Guaraní imprint within the context of early modern mission practices and the book-trade of Counter-Reformation Europe, and seeks to show how—in what some scholars consider to be a collaborative enterprise between missionaries of the Society of Jesus and the tribal peoples—the Guaraní edition of the treatise sheds light on the vast global network the Jesuits established in their transmission of faith and knowledge between Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
ISSN:2214-1332
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Jesuit studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/22141332-00504006