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To purchase or authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9809.2007.00587.x Byline: PAUL SHORE (1) Abstract: The past two decades have witnessed an important shift in the historiography of the Society of Jesus. The older style of Jesuit history, flavoured with confessional polemics, and so often dependent on the work of Jesuit scholars isolated from the more secularly oriented academic community, had already ceased to dominate when John O'Malley's magisterial The First Jesuits appeared in 1993. .sup.1 Since then, the partnering of Jesuit and non-Jesuit scholars has produced scholarship that is generally sympathetic to the Society's aims and methods while avoiding neither criticism of the Jesuits nor thorough, judicious use of archival materials. The significance of this trend is heightened by the declining numbers of Jesuits in North America and Europe, creating a situation where the advancement of Jesuit studies will, at least in these venues, increasingly become the responsibility of non-Jesuits. With the passing of the Jesuit scholar of Jesuits, something is lost and gained; potentially greater objectivity towards the Society is offset by the loss of insight into the individual and corporate experience of being a Jesuit. The four books reviewed here illustrate in varying degrees these developments in the field. Author Affiliation: (1)Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA

Early Modern Religious Communities in East-Central Europe: Ethnic Diversity, Denominational Plurality and Comparative Politics in the Principality of Transylvania. By Istvan Keul. [Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, Vol. 143.] [...]

To authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9809.2009.00818.x Byline: Paul Shore (1) Author Affiliation: (1)Department of HistorySt Louis University

Loyola's Bees: Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry. By Yasmin Annabel Haskell. A British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monograph. (New York: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University [...]