I gesuiti oltre le frontiere. Una nuova storia della Compagnia di Gesù. Vol. 1

The concept of border – line of separation and contact – as a new perspective to learn about the history of Jesuits under a different light. A religious order projected beyond every geographic, cultural, linguistic, political and religious border, to the conquest of brand new worlds – the East and American Indies – and the lands of the soul, where faith and politics merge together.First volume of a two-part work, it crosses the borders of Politics and Mission, reaching its destination in the second volume with Instruction and Identity, in order to offer innovativeapproaches to the global history of the Society of Jesus