📚 The Jesuits

The Society of Jesus: schools, missions, controversies, and the counter-Reformation’s most argued-over enterprise.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject jesuits in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Letters from missions (North America).	Jesuits.	1852	73
	The Jesuits in North America in the seventeenth century	Francis Parkman	1867	41
	The old régime in Canada	Francis Parkman	1874	40
	Edmund Campion	Evelyn Waugh	1935	39
	Histoire religieuse, politique et littéraire de la Compagnie de Jésus	J. Crétineau-Joly	1844	28
	Poems and prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1953	16
	A vanished Arcadia	R. B. Cunninghame Graham	1901	14
	Travels of the Jesuits into various parts of the world, particularly China and the East Indies ..	John Lockman	1743	12
	On the life and institute of the Jesuits	Gustave François Xavier de Lacroix de Ravignan	1844	12
	History of the Jesuits	Giovanni Battista Nicolini	1854	12
	Old and new Mackinac	J. A. Van Fleet	1870	12
	Sur la destruction des Jesuites en France	Jean Le Rond d'Alembert	1765	10
	Jesuit education	Robert Schwickerath	1903	10
	Des Jésuites	Jules Michelet	1843	9
	Ignatius Loyola and the early Jesuits	Stewart Rose	1870	9
	Saint Ignatius Loyola	Francis Thompson	1900	9
	The Jesuit missions	Thomas Guthrie Marquis	1916	9
	Storia della California	Francesco Saverio Clavigero	1789	8
	Ménologe de la Compagnie de Jésus	Elesban de Guilhermy	1867	8
	The Jesuit Devils of 1534-1921	Thomas J. Campbell	1921	8
	The Jesuits	Theodor Griesinger	1883	7
	Jezuici	Malachi Martin	1987	7
	Jesuit Missions to China and Peru, 1570-1610	Ana Carolina Hosne	2013	7
	Loyola and the educational system of the Jesuits	Thomas Hughes	1892	6
	The letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1935	6
	The origin of the Jesuits	James Brodrick	1940	6
	História das missões orientais do Uruguai	Aurélio Pôrto	1943	6
	The memory palace of Matteo Ricci	Jonathan D. Spence	1984	6
	The Jesuits, a history	David J. Mitchell	1824	5
	The life and letters of St. Francis Xavier	Henry James Coleridge	1872	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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