Negotiated Obedience and Silenced Disobedience in the Society of Jesus in Spain. XVIth and XVIIth Centuries
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https://doi.org/10.3989/hispania.2014.019Keywords:
Jesuits, obedience, dissentiment, Inquisition, antijesuitism, confessionalizationAbstract
The Society of Jesus was not a monolithic character of disciplining modernity but a prism of many sides, reflecting the complexity of the Tridentine paradigm. One of these prisms is related to internal dissent and its management along XVIth and XVIIth, in an institution that made obedience the keystone of its building. The rules of the Company about the dissent and the expulsion, the privileges granted by the Popes to the Generals regarding the rebel Jesuits and the attitudes towards the expelled in the texts of the Company (Bobadilla, Ribadeneira, Andrade) are approached in this article. It is emphasized that, in front of these narratives of remuneration, the Company modulated the rule, negotiated obedience, according to criteria of scandal and reputation. In this key of interpretation, the autor studies the case of the Jesuit Francisco Abreo and his tactics to achieve an advantageous situation in exchange for his silence, appealing to the Spanish Inquisition as a resource. The bitterness of some exjesuits led them to write texts like Mónita secreta that not only fed the antijesuitism but also the possibility of a change of government in the Spanish Monarchy at the late seventeenth century.
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