{"id":5623,"date":"2020-09-02T13:58:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T13:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/?page_id=5623"},"modified":"2020-09-15T13:35:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T13:35:35","slug":"september-ditchfield-lectures-on-bartoli-and-the-uses-of-global-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/?page_id=5623","title":{"rendered":"September 2020: Ditchfield Lectures on Bartoli and the Uses of Global History"},"content":{"rendered":"

On September 18, the Royal Historical Society hosts a virtual lecture by Simon Ditchfield, professor of history and director of the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (CREMS) at the University of York. Ditchfield’s remarks are entitled “Baroque around the clock: Daniello Bartoli SJ (1608-1685) and the uses of global history<\/a><\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

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According to the RHS, Ditchfield will consider how “right from the start the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) realised the value and role of ‘local colour’ in the persuasive rhetoric of Jesuit missionary accounts.” His lecture will use the works of Bartoli to show how Jesuit historians\u00a0“played an important role in giving their Jesuit readers a sense of the distinctiveness of their global mission.”<\/p>\n

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Advanced registration<\/a> is required. Further information appears below and is available at the RHS website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Baroque around the clock: Daniello Bartoli SJ (1608-1685) and the uses of global history<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Simon Ditchfield
\n18 September 2020
\nLive Online via Zoom
\nBooking Required<\/a><\/p>\n

Abstract
\n‘Something should be written regarding the cosmography of those regions where ours live’ (Ignatius Loyola).<\/p>\n

As this quotation indicates, right from the start the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) realised the value and role of ‘local colour’ in the persuasive rhetoric of Jesuit missionary accounts. Over a century later, when Jesuit missions were to be found on all the inhabited continents of the world then known to Europeans, descriptions of these new found lands were to be read for the entertainment as well as the edification of their Old World audiences. Bartoli’s volumes also played an important role in giving their Jesuit readers a sense of the distinctiveness of their global mission. Referred to by Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) as the ‘Dante of baroque prose’, Bartoli developed a particularly variegated and capacious idiom to meet the challenge of discovering how to describe the world.<\/p>\n

Lecture Timetable
\n17.45 \u2013 Zoom Waiting Room opens
\n18.00 \u2013 Welcome and Lecture
\n18.50 \u2013 Break
\n19.00 \u2013 Questions
\n19.30 \u2013 Close<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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