James Seitz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 952435 |
|---|---|
| NOME | James Seitz |
| PRENOMES | James |
| SOBRENOME | Seitz |
| ASSINATURA | SEITZ J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Drexel University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2545-4127 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Worshipping, Witnessing, and Wondering
Mission as Penance
Richard R. Osmer, The Invitation
China and the True Jesus
Clerical Exorcists and the Struggle for Professional Status in Early Modern Venice
Clerical exorcists occupied an unstable place among healers in early modern Italy. Although recognized by their patients for their skills and knowledge, they were also a potentially disruptive group, given their interactions with malevolent powers and work that transgressed the normal boundaries of clerical activities. Consequently, clerical exorcists had to defend the legitimacy of their activities to skeptical ecclesiastical authorities. The ex…
Surveying Taiwanese Christianity
In Taiwan there has been relatively little data on the demographics of Christians. In the past, denominations, missionaries, and others kept some data. Recently, a group of sociologists conducted two major surveys. The results provide snapshots of how Christianity in Taiwan looks. The first part of this article treats some of the challenges in conducting the surveys as well as some major findings. The second half of the article asks how this type…
The History of Christian Missions in Guangxi, China, written by Arthur Lin
Arthur Lin. The History of Christian Missions in Guangxi, China. Eugene, OR, Pickwick Publications, 2020. Pp. 188. $24.00.Arthur Lin introduces the Guangxi region through its missionaries. He begins the introduction with their perceptions: “notoriously turbulent,” “intensely anti-foreign,” “confused and disordered” (1). Lin makes a general case for treating Guangxi as an understudied region and offers an overview of its location in China for read…
Hannah Marcus, Forbidden Knowledge
This fine first book by Hannah Marcus explores the censorship of medical writings by the Reformation-era Roman church and the medical community’s reactions to those efforts. Marcus’s account is based on research in an impressive array of (northern) Italian libraries and archives and in the monumental Baldini and Spruit documentary collection on scientific matters in the Congregations of the Inquisition and Index. These resources preserve extensiv…
Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled
Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled introduces the world of Zhu Zongyuan, a Chinese scholar and Catholic convert interested in the broader world. Zhu never left his home and yet was part of a global history. He was a modestly successful regional scholar who, while staying home, nonetheless observed, studied, and reflected on the world, thus “a man who never traveled.” The other words in the book’s title—“entanglements” and “conflicte…
Syllabus
Syllabus James Seitz (bio) "Syllabus" emerged in English in the mid-seventeenth century, when it referred to a concise table of contents. It wasn't until the mid-nineteenth century that the word took on its current meaning as a document describing a course of study. Derived from a misreading of the Latin sittybus, from the Greek for "title slip" or "label" ... Et cetera, et cetera. As I returned time and again to composing this piece, I kept find…
The Chinese Christology of T. C. Chao, written by Yongtao Chen
Carl S. Kilcourse. Taiping Theology
Eastspirit
Una Gentildonna Davanti al Sant’Uffizio
Una Gentildonna Davanti al Sant’Uffizio: Il processo per eresia a Isabella della Frattina 1568–1570. Federica Ambrosini, ed. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 535. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2014. lxxxx + 440 pp. $98.40. - Volume 69 Issue 3
Thomas F. Mayer. The Roman Inquisition
Plague Hospitals
Although the development of hospitals in late medieval and early modern Europe has hardly been ignored by historians of medicine, Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw argues that hospitals focused on the treatment of plague are different creatures that deserve separate study. In this book, she offers a history of the two plague hospitals, or lazaretti, of Venice, while also taking some stock of developments elsewhere. Stevens Crawshaw sets out to provide mor…
Thomas F. Mayer
The Inquisitor in the Hat Shop
Federico Barbierato. The Inquisitor in the Hat Shop: Inquisition, Forbidden Books, and Unbelief in Early Modern Venice. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2012. xxxiii + 396 pp. $124.95. ISBN: 978–1–4094–3547–1. - Volume 66 Issue 1
The Cave and the Butterfly
Sortilegi amorosi, materassi a nolo e pignattini
Robert Morrison and the Birth of Chinese Protestantism
The Root is Hidden and the Material Uncertain”
The rich archival records of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Venice have yielded much information about early modern society and culture. The transcripts of witchcraft trials held before the Inquisition reveal the complexities of early modern conceptions of natural and supernatural. The tribunal found itself entirely unable to convict individuals charged with performing harmful magic, or maleficio, as different worldviews clashed in the cou…
Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice
The Root is Hidden and the Material Uncertain”
The rich archival records of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Venice have yielded much information about early modern society and culture. The transcripts of witchcraft trials held before the Inquisition reveal the complexities of early modern conceptions of natural and supernatural. The tribunal found itself entirely unable to convict individuals charged with performing harmful magic, or maleficio, as different worldviews clashed in the cou…
Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice
Robert Morrison and the Birth of Chinese Protestantism
The Root is Hidden and the Material Uncertain”
The rich archival records of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Venice have yielded much information about early modern society and culture. The transcripts of witchcraft trials held before the Inquisition reveal the complexities of early modern conceptions of natural and supernatural. The tribunal found itself entirely unable to convict individuals charged with performing harmful magic, or maleficio, as different worldviews clashed in the cou…
Sortilegi amorosi, materassi a nolo e pignattini
The Cave and the Butterfly
Thomas F. Mayer
The Inquisitor in the Hat Shop
Federico Barbierato. The Inquisitor in the Hat Shop: Inquisition, Forbidden Books, and Unbelief in Early Modern Venice. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2012. xxxiii + 396 pp. $124.95. ISBN: 978–1–4094–3547–1. - Volume 66 Issue 1
Plague Hospitals
Although the development of hospitals in late medieval and early modern Europe has hardly been ignored by historians of medicine, Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw argues that hospitals focused on the treatment of plague are different creatures that deserve separate study. In this book, she offers a history of the two plague hospitals, or lazaretti, of Venice, while also taking some stock of developments elsewhere. Stevens Crawshaw sets out to provide mor…
Thomas F. Mayer. The Roman Inquisition
Una Gentildonna Davanti al Sant’Uffizio
Una Gentildonna Davanti al Sant’Uffizio: Il processo per eresia a Isabella della Frattina 1568–1570. Federica Ambrosini, ed. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 535. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2014. lxxxx + 440 pp. $98.40. - Volume 69 Issue 3
The Chinese Christology of T. C. Chao, written by Yongtao Chen
Carl S. Kilcourse. Taiping Theology
Eastspirit
Syllabus
Syllabus James Seitz (bio) "Syllabus" emerged in English in the mid-seventeenth century, when it referred to a concise table of contents. It wasn't until the mid-nineteenth century that the word took on its current meaning as a document describing a course of study. Derived from a misreading of the Latin sittybus, from the Greek for "title slip" or "label" ... Et cetera, et cetera. As I returned time and again to composing this piece, I kept find…
Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled
Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled introduces the world of Zhu Zongyuan, a Chinese scholar and Catholic convert interested in the broader world. Zhu never left his home and yet was part of a global history. He was a modestly successful regional scholar who, while staying home, nonetheless observed, studied, and reflected on the world, thus “a man who never traveled.” The other words in the book’s title—“entanglements” and “conflicte…
Surveying Taiwanese Christianity
In Taiwan there has been relatively little data on the demographics of Christians. In the past, denominations, missionaries, and others kept some data. Recently, a group of sociologists conducted two major surveys. The results provide snapshots of how Christianity in Taiwan looks. The first part of this article treats some of the challenges in conducting the surveys as well as some major findings. The second half of the article asks how this type…
The History of Christian Missions in Guangxi, China, written by Arthur Lin
Arthur Lin. The History of Christian Missions in Guangxi, China. Eugene, OR, Pickwick Publications, 2020. Pp. 188. $24.00.Arthur Lin introduces the Guangxi region through its missionaries. He begins the introduction with their perceptions: “notoriously turbulent,” “intensely anti-foreign,” “confused and disordered” (1). Lin makes a general case for treating Guangxi as an understudied region and offers an overview of its location in China for read…
Hannah Marcus, Forbidden Knowledge
This fine first book by Hannah Marcus explores the censorship of medical writings by the Reformation-era Roman church and the medical community’s reactions to those efforts. Marcus’s account is based on research in an impressive array of (northern) Italian libraries and archives and in the monumental Baldini and Spruit documentary collection on scientific matters in the Congregations of the Inquisition and Index. These resources preserve extensiv…
Richard R. Osmer, The Invitation
China and the True Jesus
Clerical Exorcists and the Struggle for Professional Status in Early Modern Venice
Clerical exorcists occupied an unstable place among healers in early modern Italy. Although recognized by their patients for their skills and knowledge, they were also a potentially disruptive group, given their interactions with malevolent powers and work that transgressed the normal boundaries of clerical activities. Consequently, clerical exorcists had to defend the legitimacy of their activities to skeptical ecclesiastical authorities. The ex…
Worshipping, Witnessing, and Wondering
Mission as Penance
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