The Jesuits, the Padroado and East Asian Science

Here the conflicts of loyalties on the European side — in Pereira’s case, to his country and to his religious order — have been emphasised. Other elements are needed to fully grasp this complexity. In particular, the tensions between the Chinese and thei...  (展开)

In fact Verbiest’s position within Beijing officialdom gave him much more influence than his Portuguese confreres, while most of the time one of them was his ecclesiastical superior. Thus there was a clash between the Jesuit hierarchy and the hierarchy ind...  (展开)