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Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Place of publishing: Date issued/created: Date on-line publ.: Type of object: Subject and Keywords:Society of Jesus ; Commonwealth ; prosopography ; history of education
Abstract:
The article analyzes the structure of a specific group of Jesuits, i.e. the so-called magistri. During their religious formation, these younger Jesuits taught humanistic courses addressed to secular youth. The author applies an innovative methodology, consisting of the statistical analysis of the data from personal catalogues of the Polish and Lithuanian Provinces by means of RStudio, an integrated development environment for statistical computing and graphics. In particular, the paper focuses on the number of magistri, their proportion related to the overall Jesuit population, and their evolution over time. It also represents their dispersion across various Jesuit houses, the relationship between the subjects they taught and the number of years they spent in the Jesuit Order before receiving that post. Finally, it considers the association of various teaching posts. Through the statistical analysis, the author verifies the historiographical thesis according to which a crisis occurred in the Jesuit school system during the second half of the 17th century. This crisis was overcome only in the 1740s as the reform of Jesuit education began.
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