Eugenio Menegon
Biographic Data
| ID | 579129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eugenio Menegon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eugenio |
| FAMILY NAME | Menegon |
| SIGNATURE | MENEGON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6803-5697 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From Canton to Rome, and Back
The economic system sustaining the Propaganda Fide’s missions in East Asia relied on the shipping of silver from Europe and the colonies; loans from European and Chinese merchants, and religious institutions; spogli of deceased missionaries; rents from real estate and land in Asia and elsewhere; charitable donations and “foundations” by European princes and ecclesiastics, Chinese officials, and Qing emperors; and interests from deposits in the Ib…
Telescope and Microscope. A micro-historical approach to global China in the eighteenth century
One of the challenges of global history is to bridge the particularities of individual lives and trajectories with the macro-historical patterns that develop over space and time. Italian micro-history, particularly popular in the 1980s-1990s, has excavated the lives of small communities or individuals to test the findings of serial history and macro-historical approaches. Micro-history in the Anglophone world has instead focused more on narrative…
The Outsider
Interlopers at the Fringes of Empire
The office of the procurator of the papal Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide) offers a unique case study of noncommercial interloping in the long eighteenth century in the Pearl River Delta, and reveals the complexity and fluidity of life at the intersection of Asian and European maritime environments in that special human ecosystem. The oceanic infrastructure of the Age of Sail and the Sino…
The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven, written by Matteo Ricci
China at the Center
The Cambridge World History
The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of The Cambridge World History considers these critical transformations. The first book examines the material and political foundations of the era, including global considerations of the environment, disease, technology, and cities, along with regional studies of e…
The Visitor
Rather than the biography of a man, Liam Matthew Brockey's substantial volume (442 pages of narrative text) is a study of "how the Society [of Jesus] functioned outside of Europe" (19) in the first decades of the seventeenth century.The figure of the visitor [visitator] was particularly important to every Jesuit mission, and anybody familiar with Jesuit history is no doubt acquainted with the towering figure of the Italian Alessandro Valignano, v…
European and Chinese Controversies over Rituals
This chapter focuses on some Christian manuscript sources in Chinese and European languages. Missionaries based in China generally understood 'Chinese religion' and 'Chinese rites' not merely through their own European theological categories, but also through the interpretations of Chinese native scholars they interacted with. Through an examination of some Chinese-Christian texts, the author discerns the analytical categories employed by sevente…
Ancestors, Virgins, and Friars
Ancestors, Virgins, and Friars
(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.)Historical on Chinese Christianity (of both Catholic and Protestant varieties) has been enjoying a veritable boom in recent years. In the immediate post-WWII era (up until the 1970s) on Christianity in China were primarily about the missions and missionaries and the role Christian missions played in China's opening up to the modern world. Then a whole generation of China historians turned to green…
Wanted
This essay explores the life of Cai Ruoxiang (1739–1806), alias Pietro Zai, a native of southern Fujian, China, who was trained as a priest in the Chinese College of Naples in Italy. After returning to China, Cai quietly worked there for over a decade as an underground missionary, but in 1784 became the ‘number one’ on the list of wanted criminals in an empire-wide anti-Christian campaign launched by the Qianlong emperor and his governors. Cai wa…
Jesuit Emblematica in China
Time, temporality, and imperial transition
Time is basic to human consciousness and action, yet paradoxically historians rarely ask how it is understood, manipulated, recorded, or lived. Cataclysmic events in particular disrupt and realign the dynamics of temporality among people. For historians, the temporal effects of such events on large polities such as empires—the power projections of which always involve the dictation of time—are especially significant. This important and intriguing…
Child Bodies, Blessed Bodies
In late imperial China chastity of a widowed or betrothed woman, rather than virginity per se, was considered the core female virtue in social practice, in literary discourse, and in law. However, religious chastity as offered in Buddhism and other Chinese religious traditions was a way for women to evade the strictures of married life. This helps explain why, when introduced in the seventeenth century by Spanish Dominican friars, the concept of …
Christian Loyalists, Spanish Friars, and Holy Virgins in Fujian During the Ming-Qing Transition
迄今為止,相當多的研究者主要關注耶穌會在中國的活動,而忽略了方濟各 會、多明我會及其他來華修會在華活動時所產生的大量史料,這些史料為我 們描述了天主教在民間底層的鮮活畫面。盡管從十六世紀末起,耶穌會士也 活躍於相類似的環境,但是在歐洲出版的該會報告中,主要描繪的是耶穌會 與上層知識精英的關係,如此一來,耶穌會士與儒士及帝國文化的相遇問題 ,理所當然成爲許多當代的歷史研究者熱衷於討論的對象。在本文中,我將集中探討清軍橫掃東南時期閩東北福安縣地方多明我會的活 動。這些多明我會神父目擊了明清王朝更替,為我們留下了衆多反映這場劇 烈社會變動的史料。然而,對於本文來説,更重要的一點是,這種明清轉變 為我們提供了一個深入研究基層處境中天主教群體與地方社會之間實質關係 的絕佳歷史結合點。清軍的進逼,引發了地方紳士之間的分裂,由此也進一 步惡化了自十七世紀三十年代中期以來愈演愈烈的教徒與非教徒之間的社會 沖突與緊張關係。這類沖突是在地方宗族爭奪社會控制、對婦女的夫權支配 以及宗教信仰分歧等背景下發生的。…
Wanted
This essay explores the life of Cai Ruoxiang (1739–1806), alias Pietro Zai, a native of southern Fujian, China, who was trained as a priest in the Chinese College of Naples in Italy. After returning to China, Cai quietly worked there for over a decade as an underground missionary, but in 1784 became the ‘number one’ on the list of wanted criminals in an empire-wide anti-Christian campaign launched by the Qianlong emperor and his governors. Cai wa…
Telescope and Microscope. A micro-historical approach to global China in the eighteenth century
One of the challenges of global history is to bridge the particularities of individual lives and trajectories with the macro-historical patterns that develop over space and time. Italian micro-history, particularly popular in the 1980s-1990s, has excavated the lives of small communities or individuals to test the findings of serial history and macro-historical approaches. Micro-history in the Anglophone world has instead focused more on narrative…
Christian Loyalists, Spanish Friars, and Holy Virgins in Fujian During the Ming-Qing Transition
迄今為止,相當多的研究者主要關注耶穌會在中國的活動,而忽略了方濟各 會、多明我會及其他來華修會在華活動時所產生的大量史料,這些史料為我 們描述了天主教在民間底層的鮮活畫面。盡管從十六世紀末起,耶穌會士也 活躍於相類似的環境,但是在歐洲出版的該會報告中,主要描繪的是耶穌會 與上層知識精英的關係,如此一來,耶穌會士與儒士及帝國文化的相遇問題 ,理所當然成爲許多當代的歷史研究者熱衷於討論的對象。在本文中,我將集中探討清軍橫掃東南時期閩東北福安縣地方多明我會的活 動。這些多明我會神父目擊了明清王朝更替,為我們留下了衆多反映這場劇 烈社會變動的史料。然而,對於本文來説,更重要的一點是,這種明清轉變 為我們提供了一個深入研究基層處境中天主教群體與地方社會之間實質關係 的絕佳歷史結合點。清軍的進逼,引發了地方紳士之間的分裂,由此也進一 步惡化了自十七世紀三十年代中期以來愈演愈烈的教徒與非教徒之間的社會 沖突與緊張關係。這類沖突是在地方宗族爭奪社會控制、對婦女的夫權支配 以及宗教信仰分歧等背景下發生的。…
Child Bodies, Blessed Bodies
In late imperial China chastity of a widowed or betrothed woman, rather than virginity per se, was considered the core female virtue in social practice, in literary discourse, and in law. However, religious chastity as offered in Buddhism and other Chinese religious traditions was a way for women to evade the strictures of married life. This helps explain why, when introduced in the seventeenth century by Spanish Dominican friars, the concept of …
Time, temporality, and imperial transition
Time is basic to human consciousness and action, yet paradoxically historians rarely ask how it is understood, manipulated, recorded, or lived. Cataclysmic events in particular disrupt and realign the dynamics of temporality among people. For historians, the temporal effects of such events on large polities such as empires—the power projections of which always involve the dictation of time—are especially significant. This important and intriguing…
Jesuit Emblematica in China
Ancestors, Virgins, and Friars
Ancestors, Virgins, and Friars
(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.)Historical on Chinese Christianity (of both Catholic and Protestant varieties) has been enjoying a veritable boom in recent years. In the immediate post-WWII era (up until the 1970s) on Christianity in China were primarily about the missions and missionaries and the role Christian missions played in China's opening up to the modern world. Then a whole generation of China historians turned to green…
Wanted
This essay explores the life of Cai Ruoxiang (1739–1806), alias Pietro Zai, a native of southern Fujian, China, who was trained as a priest in the Chinese College of Naples in Italy. After returning to China, Cai quietly worked there for over a decade as an underground missionary, but in 1784 became the ‘number one’ on the list of wanted criminals in an empire-wide anti-Christian campaign launched by the Qianlong emperor and his governors. Cai wa…
European and Chinese Controversies over Rituals
This chapter focuses on some Christian manuscript sources in Chinese and European languages. Missionaries based in China generally understood 'Chinese religion' and 'Chinese rites' not merely through their own European theological categories, but also through the interpretations of Chinese native scholars they interacted with. Through an examination of some Chinese-Christian texts, the author discerns the analytical categories employed by sevente…
The Cambridge World History
The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of The Cambridge World History considers these critical transformations. The first book examines the material and political foundations of the era, including global considerations of the environment, disease, technology, and cities, along with regional studies of e…
The Visitor
Rather than the biography of a man, Liam Matthew Brockey's substantial volume (442 pages of narrative text) is a study of "how the Society [of Jesus] functioned outside of Europe" (19) in the first decades of the seventeenth century.The figure of the visitor [visitator] was particularly important to every Jesuit mission, and anybody familiar with Jesuit history is no doubt acquainted with the towering figure of the Italian Alessandro Valignano, v…
China at the Center
The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven, written by Matteo Ricci
Interlopers at the Fringes of Empire
The office of the procurator of the papal Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide) offers a unique case study of noncommercial interloping in the long eighteenth century in the Pearl River Delta, and reveals the complexity and fluidity of life at the intersection of Asian and European maritime environments in that special human ecosystem. The oceanic infrastructure of the Age of Sail and the Sino…
The Outsider
Telescope and Microscope. A micro-historical approach to global China in the eighteenth century
One of the challenges of global history is to bridge the particularities of individual lives and trajectories with the macro-historical patterns that develop over space and time. Italian micro-history, particularly popular in the 1980s-1990s, has excavated the lives of small communities or individuals to test the findings of serial history and macro-historical approaches. Micro-history in the Anglophone world has instead focused more on narrative…
From Canton to Rome, and Back
The economic system sustaining the Propaganda Fide’s missions in East Asia relied on the shipping of silver from Europe and the colonies; loans from European and Chinese merchants, and religious institutions; spogli of deceased missionaries; rents from real estate and land in Asia and elsewhere; charitable donations and “foundations” by European princes and ecclesiastics, Chinese officials, and Qing emperors; and interests from deposits in the Ib…
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