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A product of Renaissance educational thought, Jesuit rhetoric has trained generations of churchmen and lay citizens right up to the present day. This book aims to show the wealth of current international research on Jesuit rhetoric, in its pedagogical dimension (from sixteenth-century manuals to today's university writing courses), its practical implementation (in speeches, music or theology). Its chapters span both religious contexts—engagements with Protestants, Jews, Orthodox Christians, and Dominicans—and geographical ones, including encounters between Europe and regions such as Sri Lanka, China, and Japan.

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Sophie Conte is a full professor of Latin at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France). She has edited Nicolas Caussin: rhétorique et spiritualité à l’époque de Louis XIII (2007). Cinthia Gannett is a professor emerita of English and English Writing at Fairfield University (Fairfield, CT, USA). She is coeditor, with John C. Brereton, of Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies (2016). John C. Brereton (1943–2023) was a professor emeritus of English at the University of Massachusetts (Boston, MA, USA). He has published The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875–1925 (1996). Manfred Kraus is a professor emeritus of Classics at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität (Tübingen, Germany). He works on the history and theory of rhetoric, the theory of argumentation, Greek philosophy, Byzantine, Renaissance and Jesuit studies. Elizabethada A. Wright is a full professor of English, linguistics and writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (USA). She and Christina R. Pinkston co-edited Catholic Women’s Rhetoric: Ethos, the Patriarchy, and Feminist Resistance (2022). Bartosz B. Awianowicz is a professor of Classics at Nicolaus Copernicus University (Toru´n, Poland). He has published as co-author Monita privata (secreta) Societatis Iesu(2025).

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