Introduction: The Jesuit engagement with the status and functions of the visual image / Walter S. Melion -- Part 1, Jesuit image theory - rhetorical and emblematic treatises, and theoretical debates: The early Jesuits and the Catholic debate about sacred images / Wietse de Boer -- The Jesuit Ars and Scientia Symbolica: from Richeome and Sandaeus to Masen and Ménestrier / Ralph Dekoninck -- The theory of figurative language in Maximilian van der Sandt's writings / Agnès Guiderdoni -- Writing on the body and looking through its wounds: the mnemonic metaphor of the stigmata in Emanuele Tesauro's rhetoric / Andrea Torre -- Claude-Franços Ménestrier, the founder of ‘early modern grounded theory' / David Graham -- Enargeia fireworks: Jesuit image theory in Franciscus Neumayr's rhetorical manual (Idea Rhetoricae 1748) and his tragedies / Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Part 2, Embedded Jesuit image theory: Libellus piarum precum (1575): iterations of the five holy wounds in an early Jesuit prayerbook / Walter S. Melion -- Interior sight in Peter Canisius' Meditations on Advent / Hilmar M. Pabel -- Le pacte précaire de l'image et de l'écrit dans le livre illustré d'époque moderne: Le cas de La peinture spirituelle (1611) de Louis Richeome / Pierre Antoine Fabre -- A variety of spiritual pleasures: Anthonis Sallaert's Glorification of the Name of Jesus / James Clifton -- Marvels and marbles in the Antwerp Jesuit Church: Hendrick van Balen's stone paintings of the Life of the Virgin (1621) / Anna C. Knaap -- The Simulacra Avorum in Jesuit Latin poems by Wallius and Carrara: from Virgilian imitation to scholastic philosophy and art theory / Aline Smeesters -- 'To make yourself present': Jesuit sacred space as enargetic space / Steffen Zierholz -- The Jesuit strategy of accommodation / Jeffrey Muller.

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