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This essay examines a letter by Luis de la Palma (c.1559–1641), written on the occasion of his father’s death in 1595. I argue that although ostensibly a family letter, it was intended for a broader Jesuit audience. In addition to offering a paean to his father’s lay piety, de la Palma presents an exemplary model of family relations, one that demonstrates the consonance of the Jesuit exigence for detachment from kin and the fulfillment of filial duty. Written just two years after the order adopted a purity of blood requirement, the letter also constitutes an implicit apologia for the Christian virtues of the converso merchant class.
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This is a full Open Access journal. All articles are available for free from the moment of publication and authors do not pay an article publication charge. The Journal of Jesuit Studies (JJS) is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal dedicated to the study of Jesuit history from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. It welcomes articles on all aspects of the Jesuit past and present including, but not limited to, the Jesuit role in the arts and sciences, theology, philosophy, mission, literature, and interreligious/inter-cultural encounters. In its themed issues the JJS highlights studies with a given topical, chronological or geographical focus. In addition there are two open-topic issues per year. The journal publishes a significant number of book reviews as well. One of the key tasks of the JJS is to relate episodes in Jesuit history, particularly those which have suffered from scholarly neglect, to broader trends in global history over the past five centuries. The journal also aims to bring the highest quality non-Anglophone scholarship to an English-speaking audience by means of translated original articles.
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