Simon Ditchfield

Datos Biográficos

ID376576
NOMBRESimon Ditchfield
NOMBRESSimon
APELLIDODitchfield
FIRMADITCHFIELD S
AFILIACIONESUniversity of York
ORCID0000-0003-1691-0271
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS57
TOTAL DE CITAS46
TOTAL COMO AUTOR55
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1992
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H3

  • Converting Rulers

    Open AccessSimon DitchfieldARTICLEJournal of Jesuit Studies2025

    Religious and Political Change in World History (2019) and provides four detailed case studies to complement the more theoretical approach of the first volume.Taken together, the two books constitute a major milestone in the field of comparative history of religion; one which should be compared in scale and intellectual ambition to Victor Lieberman's two-volume Strange Parallels: South-east Asia in Global Context c.800-1800 (2003-9) that likewise…

  • Le donne dei papi in età moderna

    Open AccessSimon DitchfieldARTICLEThe English Historical Review2024

  • Art in Dispute

    Simon DitchfieldARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History2024

  • Italy by Way of India. Translating Art and Devotion in the Early Modern World, written by Erin Benay

    Simon DitchfieldARTICLEJournal of Early Modern History2023

  • Confessionalization on the Frontier. The Balkan Catholics between Roman Reform and Ottoman Reality, written by Antal Molnár

    Simon DitchfieldARTICLEJournal of Early Modern History2022

  • Thinking with Jesuit Saints

    Open AccessSimon DitchfieldARTICLEJournal of Jesuit Studies2022

    The significance of the two founder saints to the contribution made by Jesuit missionaries, many of whom became martyrs, to the making of Roman Catholicism as a world religion, was made explicit not at the canonization ceremony itself, nor in the celebratory processions made through the streets of Rome, but in events and decorations put up within spaces controlled by the Jesuits themselves at the Gesù, the Collegio Romano, and the novitiate of S.…

  • Baroque Around the Clock

    Open AccessSimon DitchfieldARTICLETransactions of the Royal…2021Referencias: 6

    Right from its foundation in 1540, the Society of Jesus recognised the value and role of visual description (ekphrasis) in the persuasive rhetoric of Jesuit missionary accounts. Over a century later, when Jesuit missions were to be found on all the inhabited continents of the world then known to Europeans, descriptions of the new-found lands were being read for the entertainment as well as the edification of their Old World audiences. The first o…

  • Getting beyond “Jesuit Thinking”. The “désenclavement” of Jesuit Studies Twenty Years on. Where We Are Now? A Consideration of

    Open AccessSimon DitchfieldARTICLEJournal of Jesuit Studies2020

  • Missionare in Persien

    Open AccessSimon DitchfieldARTICLEThe English Historical Review2020

    In 1604, Pope Clement VIII decided to send a group of missionaries to Persia from the newly established Italian congregation of a leading religious order of contemplatives, the Discalced Carmelites. This decision has provoked surprisingly little comment from historians of early modern Roman Catholic mission, beyond the fact that the papacy sought thereby to promote an anti-Ottoman alliance with its Safavid rulers. This has not been for lack of so…

  • A Companion to Early Modern Rome, 1492–1692

    Pamela M Jones, Barbara Wisch et al.BOOKA Companion to Early Modern Rome,…2019

    "This volume, edited by Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch, and Simon Ditchfield, focuses on Rome from 1492-1692, an era of striking renewal: demographic, architectural, intellectual, and artistic. Rome's most distinctive aspects--including its twin governments (civic and papal), unique role as the seat of global Catholicism, disproportionately male population, and status as artistic capital of Europe--are examined from numerous perspectives. This bo…

  • The Jesuits and Italian Universities 1548–1773, written by Paul F. Grendler

    Open AccessSimon DitchfieldARTICLEJournal of Jesuit Studies2018

  • What’s in a Title? Writing a History of the Counter-Reformation for a Postcolonial Age

    Simon DitchfieldARTICLEArchiv für Reformationsgeschichte…2017

    Article What’s in a Title? Writing a History of the Counter-Reformation for a Postcolonial Age was published on October 26, 2017 in the journal Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History (volume 108, issue 1).

  • Conversions

    Simon Ditchfield, Helen SmithBOOKConversions2017

    A timely and coherent collection on conversion studies of the Early Modern period, considering themes of conversion, materiality, embodiment and early modern spaces across and beyond Europe

  • La vocazione

    Open AccessSimon DitchfieldARTICLEJournal of Jesuit Studies2017

  • The Jesuits and Globalization

    Open AccessSimon DitchfieldARTICLEJournal of Jesuit Studies2017

    This volume of essays is the outcome of a three-year project hosted by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University which involved workshops held in Washington, Oxford, and Florence and culminated in a conference held in Rome (December 2014).The central question addressed by the participants was whether or not the Jesuit "way of proceeding [...] hold[s] lessons for an increasingly multipolar and interconnecte…

  • The Frontiers of Mission

    Open AccessSimon DitchfieldARTICLEJournal of Jesuit Studies2017

  • Translating Christianity in an Age of Reformations

    Open AccessSimon DitchfieldARTICLEStudies in Church History2017Citada por: 1Referencias: 9

    This article argues that the age of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the global spread of the latter brought with it the challenge that not only was it necessary to learn new languages in order to communicate the Christian message to non-European peoples encountered during the so-called ‘Age of Discovery’, but some kind of control had to be exercised over the new, global circulation of sacred images and relics. The latter facilitated …

  • Demographic Change and Ethnic Survival Among the Sedentary Populations on the Jesuit Mission Frontiers of Spanish Latin America, 1609–1803

    Open AccessSimon DitchfieldARTICLEThe English Historical Review2017

    As its lengthy title clearly suggests, this is a story of resilience against a wider picture of demographic disaster. The case-studies chosen by the author, Robert H. Jackson, are of the Jesuit missions to the Guaranì in Paraguay (actually of the Río de la Plata region which also encompassed parts of Argentina, Uruguay and the Brazilian state of Rio Grand do Sul) and the Chiquitos district of eastern Bolivia, whose demographic fate Jackson traces…

  • The unbelieved and historians, part III

    Open AccessRoland Clark, Luke Clossey et al.ARTICLEHistory Compass2017Citada por: 1Referencias: 6

    The first two parts of "The Unbelieved" argued for the possibility of the existence of supernatural beings and for their agency in historical writing. This instalment is a roundtable assessing the problems and potential in the category of the Unbelieved and in its knowability. Space limitations prevented our following the rich avenues of further inquiry our extraordinary peer reviewers suggested, but we remain grateful, especially for their remin…

  • Discovering How to Describe the World Then and Now

    Simon DitchfieldARTICLEJournal of Early Modern History2016

    The three books under review offer the opportunity to consider attempts to write the history of the wider world from the Renaissance to the present day. Although they are vastly different in focus: from a selection of travel narratives and histories; volumes from a multi-authored reference work to the study of a single street; what they all have in common is their comparative methodology and their extended engagement with non-European cultures. T…

  • The Sacralization of Space and Behaviour in the Early Modern World

    Open AccessSimon DitchfieldARTICLEJournal of Jesuit Studies2016

    the "spatial turn" in scholarship has forced us to recalibrate our understanding of the sacred not only in early modern studies. By considering space, place, and other ideas about location and territory as not neutral, objective concepts but, in the words of William B. Taylor: "[realising that] they have to do with how people perceive and encounter places and territory," we now are much better placed to appreciate that space is "a verb" rather th…

  • Preface to the 20th Anniversary Issue

    Simon DitchfieldARTICLEJournal of Early Modern History2016

  • Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation, by Robert BartlettThe Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby

    Open AccessSimon DitchfieldARTICLEThe English Historical Review2015

    Taken together, these two very different books testify to the longevity of a paradigm which has shaped the way we have written about the history of saints’ cults for over thirty years now. This paradigm was set, above all, by André Vauchez’s Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages (1981; English translation, 1997 [rev. ante, cxiv (1999), 163–4]) and Peter Brown’s The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (also 1981). Just as …

  • Morte e elezione del papa

    Simon DitchfieldARTICLEThe English Historical Review2015

    Under the direction of Cecilia Palombelli, in a little over twenty years, Viella has turned itself from a being a distinguished distributor of other publishers’ (principally medieval) academic titles to publishing what must now be considered the most interesting and imaginative list of pre-modern history titles in Italy today. The two books under review are excellent examples of this publisher’s long-term commitment to scholarship, since they for…

  • Hernando de los Rios Coronel and the Spanish Philippines in the Golden Age, by John Newsome Crossley

    Simon DitchfieldARTICLEThe English Historical Review2014

    The Spanish colonisation of the Philippines has not received substantial treatment in English since John Leddy Phelan’s classic account, The Hispanization of the Philippines (1959; reissued in paperback by Wisconsin University Press in 2010). The chief claim to fame till now of the soldier-turned-priest, Ríos Coronel, who was born c.1559 and had died by 1624, has been as an intrepid pilot and navigator who survived the marathon, year-long journey…