Ignatius of Loyola: Founder of the Jesuits
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This biography highlights the life of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and his work founding the Jesuit order during the Reformation Era.
The titles in the new Library of World Biography series make ideal supplements for World History survey courses or other courses in the history curriculum where figures in history are explored. Paperback, brief and inexpensive, each interpretative biography in this series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of World history, and relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times.
ISBN
9780321086181
Publication Date
2004
Publisher
Pearson/Longman
City
New York
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Table of Contents
Editor's Preface
Author's Preface: Loyola and the Reformation Era
I. Introduction: Loyola and the Reformation Era
II. The Early Life of a Basque Nobleman
III. The Conversion of a Courtier
IV. From Barcelona to Jerusalem and Back
V. Student Years at Barcelona, Alcalá and Salamanca, 1524-1528
VI. The University of Paris, 1528-1535
VII. Loyola Returns to Spain
VIII. From Venice to Rome, 1536-1540
IX. The Spiritual Exercises
X. “To Go to All Parts of the World”
XI. Loyola as General of the Jesuits
XII. The Rhythm of Life at Rome
XIII. Loyola, the Jesuits and Education
XIV. Loyola, the Jesuits and Women
XV. Opponents of Loyola and the Jesuits
XVI. Loyola's Roman Writings
XVII. Going Home
A Note on the Sources
Glossary
Index