Abstract
Among the many fields that Michel de Certeau touched on, there figured, especially in the first half of his career, several studies of the Society of Jesus. This article reconstructs the general context of the research that Certeau conducted on the Society in the 16th century, and in particular his specific methodological proposition based on the notion of a 'spiritual analysis of the origins' (especially the origins of the Jesuit order). This is a notion which up to now has not attracted any historiographical attention and which, nevertheless, deeply characterised Certeau's researches on the Society of Jesus in the 16th century : they incorporated, in a programmatic manner, the tension between his work as a historian and his membership of the Society.
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