A Guide to Jesuit Archives

Thomas M. McCoog, SJ.

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Guide to Jesuit Archives opens up and enhances research opportunities around the world for historians, linguists, theologians, anthropologists, philosophers, specialists in the natural and physicai sciences, to make but a few areas in which this book will be of assistance.

The Guide presents data on the official archives of the 90 provinces and independent regions of the Society of Jesus on every conttnent as well as data on the central or Roman Archives of the Society.

In response to a questionnaire of 18 items sent in five languages--English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish--the archivists of these collections resoonded with data on such items as location (address, telephone fax, e-mail, historical background, conditions of use, acquisitions policies and a description of the nature and extent of the arctival material in the repositories. All the data in response to questionnaire are presented in this book in English as well as in the languages in which the replies were originally sent.

Guide to Jesuit Archives is the first joint publication of the Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu (Rome) and the Institute of Jesuit Sources (St. Louls) and may be obtained from either. The American price is $20 (plus postage) and the European price Euros 22 (plus postage).

IHSI
Via dei Penitenzieri, 20
00193 Roma
Italia

The Institute of Jesuit
3700 West Pine Boulevard
St. Louis, Missouri 63108
USA