The Clavis Incognita
~ Friday, November 15, 2019 ~
In September of this year I spent three weeks at the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu in Rome, working through a run of Bohemian Province correspondence from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The material I was looking for concerns the missionary effort in rural Bohemia after the Battle of White Mountain — the same campaign documented in the reports I have been writing about for several years. I found what I was looking for. I also found something I was not looking for at all.