Article: THE SOCIETY OF JESUS AND THE CULTURE OF THE LATE BAROQUE IN BOHEMIA 1730-1773(*).

INTRODUCTION

Nowhere is a reassessment of the Jesuit contribution to eighteenth century culture more overdue than in Bohemian studies.(1) The usual handicaps of confessional bias and political polemic are compounded by the selective reporting that contemporaries of the Suppression in the Habsburg lands engaged in and by the lack of attention given to Jesuits of the Bohemian Province by scholars of the past hundred years.(2) The removal of ideological constraints concerning the study of history in the Czech Republic, and the increased opportunities available to scholars working in archival collections now permit a fuller and more balanced view of the role of ...

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