Colleges in Controversy: The Jesuit Schools in France from Revival to Suppression, 1815-1880

by John W. Padberg

Until the suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773 by Pope Clement XIV, the Jesuits had been the undisputed "schoolmasters of Europe." In France, especially, the educational system of the Society had attained its most widespread development and its greatest fame. The nineteenth-century colleges, formed after the revival of the Society in 1814, never reached the number, size, or influence of their predecessors; but for their time and for the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674141601
• ISBN13: 9780674141605
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.6"