Abstract
In Vienna, Vilnius or Alcalá the Society of Jesus employed a fairly universal model of education crystallised in “Ratio studiorum” (1599). The order was, however, far from being heedless of the ambitions and expectations of the people they were living among. This article examines this problem by focusing on the place of history within the Jesuit colleges in the Polish and Lithuanian Commonwealth and rejects the opinion that the Jesuits completely neglected history teaching. While there was no autonomous history course, nonetheless much history seeped into the curriculum. Books played a particularly important role in this process. In fact books were one of the basic elements in the process of design, and development of a real curriculum. History, as an independent subject, was introduced into Jesuits colleges in Poland in 1739 This introduction had far‐reaching consequences in that it markedly improved the historical culture of the society.
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