Jesuitische Finanzen im Irland der Restaurationsepoche. Eine relationale Netzwerkanalyse

Abstract

Summary Jesuit Finances in Restoration Ireland. A Relational Network Analysis While the official reports of the Jesuit mission to Ireland during the Restoration period depicted an impoverished, desolate existence at the periphery of Europe, the personal correspondence of the missionaries paints quite a different picture. Financial questions were of overwhelming importance. The article demonstrates that it was not the shortage of money that impeded the mission’s long-term success. Instead, the missionaries’ reliance on different networks with opposing norm expectations hindered a unified effort and left the mission unprepared for the political changes of the late seventeenth century. After the Cromwellian conquest most of the Irish Jesuits fled to the continent where they made active use of a variety of connections provided to them by three major network domains: as Jesuits they profited from the multiple ties of the globally operating order, which facilitated investments. As Irishmen in Europe they formed...