Early Modern Overseas Careers

East-Central Europeans as Jesuit Missionaries and Dutch East India Employees
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-963-386-882-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

In the early modern period, two European networks, the Society of Jesus and the Dutch East India Company (VOC) spanned the globe and contributed to its multifaceted globalization. This book focuses on the members of the former, Jesuit missionaries, and the employees of the Dutch trading firm originating from Central and Eastern Europe. The well-chosen case studies examine the group characteristics, career influences, and narratives of these Central Eastern Europeans. They explore the question of why subjects of Polish kings, Transylvanian princes, or Habsburg emperors dreamed of venturing overseas with the colonial merchants or aspired to work as missionaries in China and Japan.

The book examines the complexities of this early modern globalization: its scope, limits, importance, social, ethnic, and political ramifications. It researches how these networks reached out to the region of Central and Eastern Europe. The authors argue that the region was hardly considered peripheral from the perspective of Rome (and the Jesuits) or the Netherlands (and the colonial traders). They do, however, explore whether there were "glass ceilings," or limits of reach within the two networks for individuals from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Kingdom of Hungary.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chabrowski, Igor Iwo

Królikowska-Jedlinska, Natalia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Global Easts: Series Introduction Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Archives, Communication, and Identities 1. Dutch East India Company (VOC): Foundation, Administration, Territories, and Archives 2. Jesuit Strategy of Communication and Its Mirror: The Order’s Roman Archives Part II. Group Identities 3. Polish-Lithuanian Jesuits Searching for a Missionary Field in the Orient, 1610-1723 4. Inhabitants of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the VOC, 1620-1700 5. A Hungarian Employee of the VOC: The Adventures of Andras Jelky Jesuit Petitioners for the Indies from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Early Modern Period Part III. Experience of the Mission 6. Jesuit Procurators, Traveling between China and Europe, and Dutch East India Employees during the Turbulent Period from the 1640s to the 1680s 7. A Jesuit among the Kalmyks: An Example of Proto-Ethnography by the Society of Jesus in the Eighteenth Century 8. A Great Longing for India vs. the Reality of the Jesuits from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: The Case of Paulus Kostanecki

Über Autor(innen)

Igor Iwo Chabrowski is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw. He is a specialist of Modern Chinese History.

Natalia Królikowska-Jedlinska is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw. She has a background in Early Modern history and Ottoman studies, with a specific focus on the Early Modern Crimean Khanate and the Northern Caucasus.