Prokurátor - hospodářský správce a kariérní strategie jezuitského řádu
A Procurator – an Economic Administrator and the Career Strategy of the Society of Jesus

Summary/Abstract: The Society of Jesus, a strongly centralised monastic community, had a sophisticated personal policy whose fundamental principles were driven by the effort to maximise individual capabilities and to precisely stipulate the tasks and responsibilities within the community that worked on a hierarchical principle that put the greatest responsibilities in the hands of the superiors. The individual merits and activities usually resulted from the person’s function within the order’s mechanism. A thorough prosopographical analysis of the historical record of the Jesuits, processed at several levels of detail, will help us to reconstruct the careers of the Jesuit procurators – economic administrators, both with respect to the hierarchy of order functions and from the viewpoint of the individual careers of the members of a monastic institution. The study, however, does not seek to fully evaluate the procurator’s role in the hierarchy of the order’s functions, as it would require a wider heuristic basis, but rather, through a probe, it highlights the possibilities to study how the operation and economic background of the Jesuit houses functioned.

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