A Clerical Hegemony? Being a Missionnary to the Armies: Echoes of the Jesuit Missio castrensis at the Army of Flanders

Mostaccio, Silvia
(2025) Religious Orders and the ‘World’. Catholic Regular Clerics’ Self-Positioning in Early Modern Societies — ISBN: [978-3-412-53334-2], 75-93, published

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(en) This article describes and interprets the activity of the Jesuits active in the mission to the military camps in Early Modern Northen Europe during Religious Wars. This will be done by combining a range of information from normative sources—there were many rules concerning this particularly challenging mission—with “comments” (observationes) written by the missionaries themselves and preserved in correspondence with local or Roman superiors, as well as in a composite manuscript that formed part of the mission material that the fathers in charge of the artillery in the army of Flanders passed on to each other. How did the missionaries renegotiate their identity as men and as religious, as well as their mission priorities, in their interactions with the military, who were so different from them and yet so close to them? What social and religious changes did these renegotiations reflect?
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Mostaccio, S. (2025). A Clerical Hegemony? Being a Missionnary to the Armies: Echoes of the Jesuit Missio castrensis at the Army of Flanders. In Giuanna Beeli, Lukas Camenzind, Nicolas Rogger, Christian Windler (eds.) (ed.), Religious Orders and the ‘World’. Catholic Regular Clerics’ Self-Positioning in Early Modern Societies (pp. 75-93). De Gruyter Brill. https://doi.org/10.7788/9783412533342