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How the Jesuits charted the world
7 Mar 2023
How the Jesuits charted the world:
Jesuits in the early modern world acted as brokers of knowledge and information – creating new networks that connected Asia and the Americas to Europe, and Europe to distant worlds beyond the Atlantic and the Pacific. Their letters, reports and books often traversed not only stormy seas but those even more treacherous confessional and civilisational divides that marked the world they inhabited.
Anthologies: Betterment, Collective Architecture, Narrative Culture, Accidental Civilisation, On Culture, On Politics and Power