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» "A Passage to China": A French Jesuit's Perceptions of Siberia in the 1680s
Although the Russian government blocked his attempt to pass through Siberia, Père Philippe Avril's five-year quest for a land passage from Europe to Beijing contributed to European knowledge of Asian geography. http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/french_colonial_history/v003/3.1love.html » Act Against Jesuits and Seminarists (1585)
Authentic document from England's persecution of the Jesuit order. http://history.hanover.edu/texts/ENGref/LXXXV.htm » China tries to bury Jesuit past
In the Middle Kingdom, history is all mixed up because of so many periodic revisions, yet a serene Jesuit cemetery in the center of the city proves that Beijing cannot bury its past http://www.gluckman.com/Graves.html » Czech Jesuits During the Communist Oppression
First hand account of the history of the Czech Jesuit order under the Communist oppression as published in the book "On the Way to Jesus!" by former SJ Provincial Jan Pavlik. http://www.svobodat.com/sj/ » Georgetown Special Collections: The Society of Jesus
Guide to archives regarding the Society of Jesus - some 12,000 volumes, many written by Jesuits or touching on aspects of Jesuit order. http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/sj.htm » Jesuits and the Sciences
History of the order's scientific work, including brief biographies and photographs of artifacts and documents. http://libraries.luc.edu/about/jesuits/ » The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: 1610 to 1791
Complete English translation. Each file represents the total English contents of a single published volume. http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/ » The Jesuits in China
Historical information and documents from early work of the Jesuit order in China. http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/i-rome_to_china/Jesuits_in_China.html » What Determined the Content of Missionary Reports?
Historiography. Article examines the Jesuit Relations, and compares them to reports from early Iberian Jesuit missionaries to Japan, to test historians' hypotheses on the influences which shaped the missionaries' reports. http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/french_colonial_history/v003/3.1abe.html This category needs an editor
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