The Moravian Church and the Society of Jesus: American Mission and American Utopia in the Age of Confessionalization

Markéta Křížová, Associate Professor of Ibero-American Studies of the Charles University in Prague, has written two books, La ciudad ideal en el desierto: Proyectos misionales de la Companňía de Jesús y la Iglesia Morava en la América colonial (2002), and “The strength and sinews of this western world …”: African slavery, American Colonies and the Effort for Reform of European Society in the Early Modern Era (2008). Her research focuses on early modern intellectual history, European overseas expansion, and cultural encounters and competitions taking place in America in the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.