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Books by Fernanda Alfieri
Colección: NO FICCIÓN "Veronica y el diablo" es una obra extraordinaria y rigurosa, de una escrit... more Colección: NO FICCIÓN "Veronica y el diablo" es una obra extraordinaria y rigurosa, de una escritura envolvente y depurada que se mueve entre la historia de la espiritualidad, la historia de los géneros y la psicología social, y que se lee con la tensión de un relato gótico.
Veronica und der Teufel. Die wahre Geschichte eines Exorzismus, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (Aus dem Ital. von Friederike Hausmann und Stefanie Römer), 2023
Ein Abend in Rom im Dezember 1834: Zwei Jesuiten klopfen an eine Tür in der Via di Sant'Anna. Sie... more Ein Abend in Rom im Dezember 1834: Zwei Jesuiten klopfen an eine Tür in der Via di Sant'Anna. Sie sind gerufen worden, um eine junge Frau vom Teufel zu befreien. Sie sollen einen Exorzismus vollziehen ...
Edited Journal Issues by Fernanda Alfieri
Edited Books by Fernanda Alfieri
Studies in Early Modern and Contemporary European History, 3, 2021
The volume explores the relationship between religion and violence in Europe from the Middle Ages... more The volume explores the relationship between religion and violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Early modern period, involving European and Japanese scholars. It investigates the ideological foundations of the relationship between violence and religion and their development in a varied corpus of sources (political and theological treatises, correspondence of missionaries, pamphlets, and images).
I sodomiti senza nome, giunti sulla soglia del rogo e carbonizzati dall’orrore provato per il lor... more I sodomiti senza nome, giunti sulla soglia del rogo e carbonizzati dall’orrore provato per il loro crimine, prima che le fiamme li tocchino; il teologo e confessore dei Medici che abusa di un dodicenne; il cappuccino tormentato da una fisiologia esuberante e da fantasie di donne; il doge mancato a causa di amori che non incontrano la pubblica approvazione; il prete che dal confessionale stabilisce relazioni carnali con le sue penitenti; l’Adamo che si unisce ad Eva contro natura. Reali o immaginati, questi uomini suscitano domande e azioni normative. Anche quando la condanna è lieve, lo sconcerto da loro provocato viene messo in parola, e limiti fra lecito e illecito, morale e immorale, decoroso e indecoroso vengono tracciati. In questo gioco di definizioni, in cui molto influisce lo status con relative tutele, un oggetto sfuggente, ma non per questo meno dotato di capacità di condizionare, sembra prendere forma: una maschilità ideale, definita in relazione al corpo e al suo uso.
Articles by Fernanda Alfieri
Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 203 | 2023, 141-166.
Index Auteurs Mots-clés Présentation À propos des ASSR Comités Modalités de publication Bulletin ... more Index Auteurs Mots-clés Présentation À propos des ASSR Comités Modalités de publication Bulletin bibliographique Contacts et vente Appel à contribution Numéros en texte intégral 204 | 2023 Bulletin bibliographique 203 | 2023 Miracles de guérison entre médecine et religion 202 | 2023 Missions catholiques féminines en contexte colonial et post-colonial 201 | 2023 Les catégories religieuses et séculières de la martialité
Tiempos modernos , Vol. 13, Núm. 47 (2023) , 2023
The essay investigates uses and meanings of memory in a selection of texts produced by members of... more The essay investigates uses and meanings of memory in a selection of texts produced by members of the Society of Jesus in the 17th century active in the territories of the Spanish Monarchy. In the first part, it examines the significance of this category in the apparatus of norms regulating daily life and especially the activity characterising the order, namely teaching. Memory is a practical faculty predisposing the individual to future action, and plays a key role in both pedagogy and in the discipline of teachers. Mission and confession, other operational cores of the order, are examined in the second part. The accounts of the Fathers produced while travelling through the territories of the Iberian Peninsula document those places and encounters, but above all the mentality of those who produced them.
Storicamente
The essay examines the positions of Catholic doctrine in the early modern age on the connection b... more The essay examines the positions of Catholic doctrine in the early modern age on the connection between sacrifice and sexuality. It was examined a body of moral literature characterised by different levels of specialisation and relative recipients: manuals of spiritual instruction aimed at educated readers but not necessarily members of the clergy, texts for confessors and judges settling matrimonial disputes, works of wide circulation and others that remained in the shadows. A common line emerges: the sacrificial condition is desirable and necessary, and the conjugal status is hopelessly second to that, far more noble, far more sacrificial, of the religious devoted to celibacy.
This article deals with the legitimization of marital violence in Christian marriage. The first p... more This article deals with the legitimization of marital violence in Christian marriage. The first part analyzes the legal discourse produced after the Council of Trent, showing how doctrine defines and organizes the ideal relationship based on gender inequality. The second observes the procedure followed in Early modern marriage courts in relation to male impotence, a condition that belies the normative idea of a potent and leading masculity. The outcome of the first trial will show how the priority of safeguarding marriage and protecting the honor of the husband leads to the blame of the wife, urged to take charge of the situation. The second trial offers a medical report accounting for the ideas circulating on male sexual physiology, given as necessarily powerful and difficult to contain.
Storica, n. 71, anno XXIV, pp. 133-136, 2018
Autorizzazione del Tribunale di Milano n. del / / Direttore responsabile : Edoardo Tortarolo * A ... more Autorizzazione del Tribunale di Milano n. del / / Direttore responsabile : Edoardo Tortarolo * A norma del codice civile italiano, è vietata la riproduzione, totale o parziale (compresi estratti, ecc.), di questa pubblicazione in qualsiasi forma e versione (comprese bozze, ecc.), originale o derivata, e con qualsiasi mezzo a stampa o internet (compresi siti web personali e istituzionali, academia.edu, ecc.), elettronico, digitale, meccanico, per mezzo di fotocopie, pdf, microfilm, film, scanner o altro, senza il permesso scritto della casa editrice.
in F. Alfieri, K. Nickelsen (eds), Special Issue Science and Religion: Revisiting a Complex Relationship, «Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico / Jahrbuch des italienisch-deutschen historischen Instituts in Trient» , 2017
The aim of this article is to explore the positions of the Roman Congregations of the Index and t... more The aim of this article is to explore the positions of the Roman Congregations of the Index and the Holy Office towards medical science, between the late eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth Century. While these institutions seemed to lose power and the capacity to provide persuasive narratives of reality, at that time medicine apparently experience an opposite trend. Among the emerging branches, physiology proclaimed itself – to quote a contemporary observer – the «science of physical and moral life», the only one capable to give a comprehensive view of the human, overcoming the impasse between matter and spirit. Craniology and phrenology aimed at explaining individual characteristics through the conformation of the skull and brain convolutions, connecting body and behavior. I will try to examine the treatment such disciplines received from the mentioned Congregations, framing the positions of their members both within the context of the doctrine and the coeval medical debate. While they condemned the underlying idea of the individual promoted by physiology and phrenology as materialistic, some other members of the clergy attempted to creatively appropriate this notion for purposes of pastoral care.
The article offers an overview of the reactions to the recent neuroscientific trend that have dev... more The article offers an overview of the reactions to the recent neuroscientific trend that have developed in the fields of history, history of science and sociology of science. Whereas the social sciences highlight a disquieting reductionism in the neuroscientific idea of the human being, there are attemps among historians to borrow concepts, methods and topic from the neuro-field. But how far is it possible to combine cultural-historical perspectives on the individual, conscience, feelings with their biological readings?
Colección: NO FICCIÓN "Veronica y el diablo" es una obra extraordinaria y rigurosa, de una escrit... more Colección: NO FICCIÓN "Veronica y el diablo" es una obra extraordinaria y rigurosa, de una escritura envolvente y depurada que se mueve entre la historia de la espiritualidad, la historia de los géneros y la psicología social, y que se lee con la tensión de un relato gótico.
Veronica und der Teufel. Die wahre Geschichte eines Exorzismus, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (Aus dem Ital. von Friederike Hausmann und Stefanie Römer), 2023
Ein Abend in Rom im Dezember 1834: Zwei Jesuiten klopfen an eine Tür in der Via di Sant'Anna. Sie... more Ein Abend in Rom im Dezember 1834: Zwei Jesuiten klopfen an eine Tür in der Via di Sant'Anna. Sie sind gerufen worden, um eine junge Frau vom Teufel zu befreien. Sie sollen einen Exorzismus vollziehen ...
Studies in Early Modern and Contemporary European History, 3, 2021
The volume explores the relationship between religion and violence in Europe from the Middle Ages... more The volume explores the relationship between religion and violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Early modern period, involving European and Japanese scholars. It investigates the ideological foundations of the relationship between violence and religion and their development in a varied corpus of sources (political and theological treatises, correspondence of missionaries, pamphlets, and images).
I sodomiti senza nome, giunti sulla soglia del rogo e carbonizzati dall’orrore provato per il lor... more I sodomiti senza nome, giunti sulla soglia del rogo e carbonizzati dall’orrore provato per il loro crimine, prima che le fiamme li tocchino; il teologo e confessore dei Medici che abusa di un dodicenne; il cappuccino tormentato da una fisiologia esuberante e da fantasie di donne; il doge mancato a causa di amori che non incontrano la pubblica approvazione; il prete che dal confessionale stabilisce relazioni carnali con le sue penitenti; l’Adamo che si unisce ad Eva contro natura. Reali o immaginati, questi uomini suscitano domande e azioni normative. Anche quando la condanna è lieve, lo sconcerto da loro provocato viene messo in parola, e limiti fra lecito e illecito, morale e immorale, decoroso e indecoroso vengono tracciati. In questo gioco di definizioni, in cui molto influisce lo status con relative tutele, un oggetto sfuggente, ma non per questo meno dotato di capacità di condizionare, sembra prendere forma: una maschilità ideale, definita in relazione al corpo e al suo uso.
Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 203 | 2023, 141-166.
Index Auteurs Mots-clés Présentation À propos des ASSR Comités Modalités de publication Bulletin ... more Index Auteurs Mots-clés Présentation À propos des ASSR Comités Modalités de publication Bulletin bibliographique Contacts et vente Appel à contribution Numéros en texte intégral 204 | 2023 Bulletin bibliographique 203 | 2023 Miracles de guérison entre médecine et religion 202 | 2023 Missions catholiques féminines en contexte colonial et post-colonial 201 | 2023 Les catégories religieuses et séculières de la martialité
Tiempos modernos , Vol. 13, Núm. 47 (2023) , 2023
The essay investigates uses and meanings of memory in a selection of texts produced by members of... more The essay investigates uses and meanings of memory in a selection of texts produced by members of the Society of Jesus in the 17th century active in the territories of the Spanish Monarchy. In the first part, it examines the significance of this category in the apparatus of norms regulating daily life and especially the activity characterising the order, namely teaching. Memory is a practical faculty predisposing the individual to future action, and plays a key role in both pedagogy and in the discipline of teachers. Mission and confession, other operational cores of the order, are examined in the second part. The accounts of the Fathers produced while travelling through the territories of the Iberian Peninsula document those places and encounters, but above all the mentality of those who produced them.
Storicamente
The essay examines the positions of Catholic doctrine in the early modern age on the connection b... more The essay examines the positions of Catholic doctrine in the early modern age on the connection between sacrifice and sexuality. It was examined a body of moral literature characterised by different levels of specialisation and relative recipients: manuals of spiritual instruction aimed at educated readers but not necessarily members of the clergy, texts for confessors and judges settling matrimonial disputes, works of wide circulation and others that remained in the shadows. A common line emerges: the sacrificial condition is desirable and necessary, and the conjugal status is hopelessly second to that, far more noble, far more sacrificial, of the religious devoted to celibacy.
This article deals with the legitimization of marital violence in Christian marriage. The first p... more This article deals with the legitimization of marital violence in Christian marriage. The first part analyzes the legal discourse produced after the Council of Trent, showing how doctrine defines and organizes the ideal relationship based on gender inequality. The second observes the procedure followed in Early modern marriage courts in relation to male impotence, a condition that belies the normative idea of a potent and leading masculity. The outcome of the first trial will show how the priority of safeguarding marriage and protecting the honor of the husband leads to the blame of the wife, urged to take charge of the situation. The second trial offers a medical report accounting for the ideas circulating on male sexual physiology, given as necessarily powerful and difficult to contain.
Storica, n. 71, anno XXIV, pp. 133-136, 2018
Autorizzazione del Tribunale di Milano n. del / / Direttore responsabile : Edoardo Tortarolo * A ... more Autorizzazione del Tribunale di Milano n. del / / Direttore responsabile : Edoardo Tortarolo * A norma del codice civile italiano, è vietata la riproduzione, totale o parziale (compresi estratti, ecc.), di questa pubblicazione in qualsiasi forma e versione (comprese bozze, ecc.), originale o derivata, e con qualsiasi mezzo a stampa o internet (compresi siti web personali e istituzionali, academia.edu, ecc.), elettronico, digitale, meccanico, per mezzo di fotocopie, pdf, microfilm, film, scanner o altro, senza il permesso scritto della casa editrice.
in F. Alfieri, K. Nickelsen (eds), Special Issue Science and Religion: Revisiting a Complex Relationship, «Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico / Jahrbuch des italienisch-deutschen historischen Instituts in Trient» , 2017
The aim of this article is to explore the positions of the Roman Congregations of the Index and t... more The aim of this article is to explore the positions of the Roman Congregations of the Index and the Holy Office towards medical science, between the late eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth Century. While these institutions seemed to lose power and the capacity to provide persuasive narratives of reality, at that time medicine apparently experience an opposite trend. Among the emerging branches, physiology proclaimed itself – to quote a contemporary observer – the «science of physical and moral life», the only one capable to give a comprehensive view of the human, overcoming the impasse between matter and spirit. Craniology and phrenology aimed at explaining individual characteristics through the conformation of the skull and brain convolutions, connecting body and behavior. I will try to examine the treatment such disciplines received from the mentioned Congregations, framing the positions of their members both within the context of the doctrine and the coeval medical debate. While they condemned the underlying idea of the individual promoted by physiology and phrenology as materialistic, some other members of the clergy attempted to creatively appropriate this notion for purposes of pastoral care.
The article offers an overview of the reactions to the recent neuroscientific trend that have dev... more The article offers an overview of the reactions to the recent neuroscientific trend that have developed in the fields of history, history of science and sociology of science. Whereas the social sciences highlight a disquieting reductionism in the neuroscientific idea of the human being, there are attemps among historians to borrow concepts, methods and topic from the neuro-field. But how far is it possible to combine cultural-historical perspectives on the individual, conscience, feelings with their biological readings?
Rivista storica italiana, 2009
... Il destino delle opinioni: un caso di manipolazione dei doctores fra morale e medicina (Cremo... more ... Il destino delle opinioni: un caso di manipolazione dei doctores fra morale e medicina (Cremona, secoli XVI-XVIII). Autores: Fernanda Alfieri; Localización: Rivista storica italiana , ISSN 0035-7073, Vol. 121, Nº. 1, 2009 , págs. 271-314. Fundación Dialnet. ...
Christianity and Violence in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, 2021
• Psicologie all’Indice. Uno studio esplorativo (XIX secolo), in A. Cifres (a cura di), L’Inquisizione romana e i suoi archivi. A vent’anni dall'apertura dell’ACDF. Atti del convegno Roma, 15 -17 maggio 2018. Memoria Fidei IV, Roma, Gangemi Editore, 2019 , 2019
Il contributo esamina la ricezione della fisiologia e psicologia moderna presso le congregazioni ... more Il contributo esamina la ricezione della fisiologia e psicologia moderna presso le congregazioni di Indice e Sant'Uffizio.
S. Mostaccio, M. Caffiero, J. De Maeyer, P.-A. Fabre, A. Serra (éd.), Échelles de pouvoir, rapports de genre. Femmes, Jésuites et modèle ignatien dans le long XIXe siècle, Louvain-La-Neuve, UCL Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2014, 2014
Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present
In these passionate verses from The Canticle of Canticles, a bridegroom longs for the unique beau... more In these passionate verses from The Canticle of Canticles, a bridegroom longs for the unique beauty of his beloved bride. His eyes seek hers alone; his lips summon hers and no one else’s; she is driven to him and to none other. Since the comments of the early Church Fathers, exegesis of The Canticle of Canticles departed from the sphere of matrimony and veered toward allegory. As such, this biblical passage became a part of monastic culture, where it was held to represent the union of the soul with God, and of Scholasticism, where it was seen as describing the matrimony of the Church with Christ.2 At the same time, the idea that two people could be brought together by a desire that was sparked by their specific traits seemed to vanish from the conception of matrimony in Christian Europe. This void, or rather this lack of reflection on desire, appears markedly in (or is notable for its absence from) the discourse on marriage produced between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries to instruct the clergy on how to administer confession to the sexualized laity (married, unmarried, or about to be married). This discourse may be regarded as a sort of juridical corpus concerned with the management of the body and soul, a guide on how to understand those speaking of themselves, of their bodies and of their innermost thoughts within confession.3
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Fra XVI e XVII secolo il matrimonio prende forma di istituzione. Per lungo tempo governato preval... more Fra XVI e XVII secolo il matrimonio prende forma di istituzione. Per lungo tempo governato prevalentemente da istanze private (accordi contratti d'impulso senza testimoni, nei modi e nei luoghi più improbabili, o concordati dalle famiglie degli sposi secondo logiche d'interesse), viene condotto fuori dall'ingovernabile mondo delle volontà individuali e portato di fronte al sagrato, al cospetto della comunità. Solo in presenza del sacerdote e di almeno due testimoni le intenzioni degli sposi diventano, da semplice scambio di promesse altrimenti sfuggenti e aleatorie, l'atto di creazione di un vincolo inscindibile, riconosciuto nei suoi effetti materiali e immateriali dall'intera comunità. Questo è il portato del decreto /Tametsi/, emanato nel 1563 nelle ultime battute del Concilio di Trento per definire il legame coniugale quanto alla sua dimensione formale [1] </temi/rifiuti-scarti-esuberi/il-corpo-del-rifiuto-alfieri.html#note>. Non l'unica, né la più bisognosa di conferma in tempi di risistemazione complessiva dell'ortodossia dopo la bufera protestante. Per la sua istituzione divina, come vuole la vicenda paradisiaca di Adamo ed Eva, emblema assoluto e atemporale della storia delle nozze (precede tutti i tempi e inalterato ne sovrasta l'immaginario), la coppia di sposi detiene infatti un'ulteriore, intrinseca dimensione di trascendenza, rafforzata dalla grazia santificante del sacramento. Quest'ultimo, enorme punto -che il matrimonio fosse sacramento -era stato messo in discussione dai riformatori. Come possono i papisti, si erano chiesti Giovanni Calvino e Martin Chemnitz (autore di un criticissimo esame dei decreti conciliari, confutati uno ad uno, quasi a formare un corso di teologia ad uso delle chiese luterane) sostenere che quel contratto civile, creato per generare ed educare la prole, è anche istituto santificante, quando le loro /auctoritates/ non hanno mai perso occasione per tacciarlo dei peggiori effetti inquinanti (/immundities, pollutio e carnale sordes/ [2] </temi/rifiuti-scarti-esuberi/il-corpo-del-rifiuto-alfieri.html#note>)? C'è, è indubbio, un nodo da districare, una spina nel fianco del pensiero cristiano sul matrimonio che, segnato fin dalle sue origini da un filone di tendenza rigorista, spesso sull'orlo dell'eresia, stenta ad accettare la positività di quei fenomeni che stravolgono il corponecessariamente sessuato -di chi sceglie la via della coniugalità. I difensori dell'ortodossia impugnano questo scoglio e intraprendono un riepilogo della storia dell'idea di matrimonio che, fra articolate /disputationes/ e accese /controversiae/, ridefinisce la situazione coniugale negli aspetti più profondi, problematizzandone le dinamiche costitutive [3] </temi/rifiuti-scarti-esuberi/il-corpo-del-rifiuto-alfieri.html#note>. Con uno scavo indagatorio nelle pieghe del talamo che non teme di sconfinare nell'inopportuno, reso decoroso dal fine urgente (ristabilire
Sempre più spesso le neuroscienze richiamano l'attenzione sulle regole generali dell'agire, osser-
Invito alla presentazione del libro di mercoledì 1 ottobre, ore 20.45 MUSE -Museo delle Scienze C... more Invito alla presentazione del libro di mercoledì 1 ottobre, ore 20.45 MUSE -Museo delle Scienze Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza 3 Trento Segreteria organizzativa Antonella Vecchio | Elisabetta Lopane T +39 0461 314 265 / 215 M segreteria.isig@fbk.eu W http://isig.fbk.eu
Call for papers per il convegno sulla storia delle omosessualità, intitolato "Tribadi, sodomiti, ... more Call for papers per il convegno sulla storia delle omosessualità, intitolato "Tribadi, sodomiti, invertite e invertiti, pederasti, femminelle, ermafroditi... Per una storia dell'omosessualità e della trasgressioni di genere in Italia", 21-22 settembre 2015, Università di Verona.
Segreteria organizzativa | Antonella Vecchio | Elisabetta Lopane | T +39 0461 314 265 / 215 | M s... more Segreteria organizzativa | Antonella Vecchio | Elisabetta Lopane | T +39 0461 314 265 / 215 | M segreteria.isig@fbk.eu | W http://isig.fbk.eu
venerdì 4 dicembre 2015 ore 15.30 Fondazione Bruno Kessler Via S. Croce, 77 -Trento Sempre più sp... more venerdì 4 dicembre 2015 ore 15.30 Fondazione Bruno Kessler Via S. Croce, 77 -Trento Sempre più spesso le neuroscienze richiamano l'attenzione sulle regole generali dell'agire, osservano soggetti in laboratorio, nella contingenza di esperimenti attenti a fenomeni registrati in simultaneità col loro verificarsi, o tutt'al più considerati lontane risonanze di un tempo profondo dell'evoluzione della specie. Dinanzi a queste proposte, la storia invece sembra aver smesso di interrogarsi sulle ragioni profonde delle azioni degli uomini e delle donne, ferma sulla soglia della impenetrabilità empirica dell'animo umano, considerando l'essere umano come culturalmente tanto costruibile quanto decostruibile. Tuttavia, se distanti appaiono i modi di studiarlo e di narrarlo, l'interesse delle due discipline è il medesimo: la persona. Il seminario avvia una prima riflessione tra scienziati, storici e studiosi delle scienze umane nel quadro di un ciclo di incontri dedicati a questo tema da Isig e Università Ca' Foscari.
Segreteria organizzativa -Antonella Vecchio | Elisabetta Lopane | T +39 0461 314 265 / 215 | M se... more Segreteria organizzativa -Antonella Vecchio | Elisabetta Lopane | T +39 0461 314 265 / 215 | M segreteria.isig@fbk.eu | W http://isig.
Session I: Structuring Powers Chair: Tomoji Odori (Musashi University, Tokyo) Takashi Jinno (Was... more Session I: Structuring Powers
Chair: Tomoji Odori (Musashi University, Tokyo)
Takashi Jinno (Waseda University, Tokyo): “Pentarchia” as Five Senses of the Human Body. The Idea of Collegiality of Church by Eastern Orthodox Intellectuals and its Relation to the Organic Concept of Society in 12th Century Europe
Fernanda Alfieri (FBK-ISIG, Trento): Early Modern Catholicism and the Body: Moral Theology, Medicine, Canon Law
Massimo Rospocher (University of Leeds): The Rose, the Lily, and the Cross. The Just War of Henry VIII in Defence of the Roman Church
Taku Minagawa (University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi): Capuchin Marco D’Aviano, Emperor Leopold I and his Imperial Politics in the Fourth Quarter of the 17th Century
Benedetta Albani (Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt a. M.): Governance of the Universal Church after the Council of Trent: Concepts and Practices as Exemplified by the Congregations of the Council between the Early Modern Period and the Present
31st October
9.30 | Session II: Defining Religious Identities
Chair: Takashi Jinno (Waseda University, Tokyo)
Serena Ferente (King’s College, London): Religion and Ethnicity at the Frontier. The Ge-noese Colonies in the Black Sea in the Fifteenth Century.
Tomoji Odori (Musashi University, Tokyo): “Microconfessionalization” in the Early Mo-dern World: European Anabaptists and Hidden Christians in Japan
Ken’ichi Nejime (Gakushuin Women’s College, Tokyo): The Immortality of the Soul and Japan. The Worldwide Problem of the Italian Renaissance
Giovanni Ciappelli (University of Trento): Memory, Egodocuments and Religion in Early Modern Europe
Federico Barbierato (University of Verona): “Popular” Atheism and Unbelief in Early Modern Italy
14.30| Session III: Observing the Other
Chair: Benedetta Albani (Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt a. M.)
Vincenzo Lavenia (University of Macerata): Between Vices against Nature and Heresy: Muslims and Sodomy in Early Modern Europe
Giuseppe Marcocci (University of Viterbo): Luís Frois S.J. and 611 Differences between Japanese and Europeans (1585)
Atsuko Hirayama (Tezukayama University, Nara): Catholic Mission in the Ming China Tra-dition. Accommodation Policy: Alessandro Valignano, SJ and Juan Cobo, OP
Michela Catto (FBK-ISR, Trento): Christianity in Far East and Far East in the Enlighten-ment: Discoveries and Descriptions between Europe and Asia
Bando Summer school ISIG - Trento, 1-4 luglio 2020, 2020
"Forme della comunicazione e linguaggi della storia" Trento, 1-4 luglio 2020 L'Istituto Storic... more "Forme della comunicazione e linguaggi della storia"
Trento, 1-4 luglio 2020
L'Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico in Trento (https://isig.fbk.eu/it/ricerca/) è lieto di annunciare la Summer School 2020, "Forme della comunicazione e linguaggi della storia", in collaborazione con il Master "Esperto in comunicazione storica. Multimedialità e linguaggi digitali" dell'Università degli studi Roma Tre e con la Fondazione Museo storico del Trentino. Nel quadro di una ricerca sulla dimensione mediale della storia, che connota l'attività dell'Istituto, la Summer School sarà dedicata all'esplorazione delle possibilità di elaborazione e trasmissione del sapere storico offerte dai moderni mezzi di comunicazione, e alle sfide metodologiche che il loro utilizzo solleva.
Proposta formativa
- Aggiornamento storiografico e metodologico nel quadro nazionale e internazionale, con relazioni in italiano e in inglese;
- workshops, con esperte ed esperti dei linguaggi audiovisivo, performativo, espositivo, letterario, gaming, graphic novels, app;
- laboratori di gruppo, in cui i partecipanti potranno cimentarsi nell'elaborazione di un progetto che utilizzi i vari linguaggi affrontati;
- visite guidate allo studio del canale televisivo History Lab, allo spazio espositivo Le Gallerie nel quartiere di Piedicastello, alla città di Trento attraverso la app Hidden Trento;
- cena laboratoriale.
Requisiti di ammissione
Il bando è rivolto a dottorande e dottorandi in studi storici, nonché a giovani ricercatrici e ricercatori, che abbiano discusso la propria tesi di dottorato dopo il 2015. La lingua veicolare sarà l'italiano, ma è richiesta la conoscenza della lingua inglese.
Invio domande e scadenza bando
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La scadenza per la presentazione delle domande è fissata al 15 marzo 2020
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Riforma e movimenti religiosi, 2020
Indice "Riforma e movimenti religiosi" 8 (dicembre 2020). Sezione monografica "Amore e sessualità... more Indice "Riforma e movimenti religiosi" 8 (dicembre 2020). Sezione monografica "Amore e sessualità in età medievale e moderna"
Apparently Peripheral. Prostitution and Regulation of Sexual Morality in the Modern Age Prostitut... more Apparently Peripheral. Prostitution and Regulation of Sexual Morality in the Modern Age Prostitution has been traditionally treated as a phenomenon related to marginality, both by scholars and by observers contemporary to the periods considered in the volume. As Marzio Barbagli shows, however, it is central, intertwined with the organisation of communities. This essay reads the history of prostitution and the history of marriage from a comparative perspective, highlighting unexpected connections. Marriage is the institution that legitimises sexuality, making it decent and productive. Prostitution, too, with the various forms of regulation produced over a centuries-long history, has been the object of an economy of money and morality that incardinates social organisation.
Cromohs. Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, 2016
Released in Italy in 2005, the story of Lucia Cremonini and the infanticide committed by her in B... more Released in Italy in 2005, the story of Lucia Cremonini and the infanticide committed by her in Bologna in the early 1700s, is now available for English speaking readers. As in the original version, which remains substantially unmodified, the reader is immediately immersed in the events (the first of the four sections of the book is aptly titled, "The Story"). There is no introduction and so no programmatic filter to lead in and orient the reader. The narrative takes up the statement of the porter, Domenico Prata, and the series of interrogations that resulted from it, immediately travelling to an impoverished attic on a cold winter's day. Here we encounter a young woman whose words, taken from an initial inquiry conducted on site by the legal notary (one of the many male mediators, after the reporting party, from whom we know the story), set out an affair that is extremely crude and stark, but equally charged with tensions and unresolved details. As recounted by Lucia from the bed in which she had given birth a few hours before, in a vulgar Italian that this new edition offers in its original form, everything started from a sexual abuse, an "honour" stolen in a dark entrance-hall one afternoon during the city Carnival. Over the following months the ever more swollen belly raised suspicion in a community that was ever attentive but little supporting. Lucia responded by drawing on common beliefs about the body founded in the theory of the humours, explaining that the swelling was just fluid retention (in that view of the world, humoural transfers, deformations, and metamorphoses were considered rationally credible). This same female community, curious and caring as their roles required of them, but substantially distant and judgemental, hurried to her side on the night of the birth, realizing soon afterwards, almost in choral surprise, that a tragedy had taken place. The body of a child lay in a bag with its throat cut, and so it remained when, following the denunciation, a legal notary of the criminal court of Torrone went to the scene of the crime. A story emerged of loneliness without respite, and at the same time of control equally without escape, that is almost archetypal. This archetype runs through the centuries from Ancien Régime Bologna to the contemporary age. The rape suffered by Lucia, as recounted by the notary, is reminiscent of the initial scene of History: a Novel, by Elsa Morante: both the virgin Lucia living in Bologna under Papal dominion, and the widow Ida living in mid 1900s Rome occupied by the Germans, are similarly raped in a dark entrance hall, we observe the same silent helplessness of a woman in the face of an brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk
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The marriage of the native Brazilian (free or enslaved people) and African slaves is, in the anal... more The marriage of the native Brazilian (free or enslaved people) and African slaves is, in the analysis of Charlotte de Castelnau-L'Estoile, the central element of the Brazilian pro-slave society and one of the main subjects of discussion between the local (or Brazilian) and the central (or Roman) Catholicism. Conversion and marriage were the two ways, on the one hand, imposed by the colonial authorities and, on the other hand, used by natives of America and Africa to build and became part of the colonial society, the white Catholic Brazilian society (p. 19). The point of view of the French historian is the history of the evangelization and religion of a colonial society, between the incorporation of the natives and the maintenance of their subordination. A wide range of sources have been taken into consideration as basis of this monography: juridical documents from the Brazilian archives collecting controversies on marriages; theological treaties; reports and doubts presented to the Roman Papal archives (at the Congregations of the Holy Office and de Propaganda Fide); but also travels reports, chronicles of geography, official history of the Portuguese Empire, letters between missionaries and superiors of the Society of Jesus and, in minor part, of the Capuchins between the sixteenth and the eighteenth century. The author collects information on the local wedding custom too, through the missionary ethnology, as well as she presents the most important canonical decisions, established by the Papacy, changing the traditional position on the marriage of the unfaithful newly converted, called, as she says, eternal neophytes («éternels neophytes»). When the sources suggest the connection, the situation of native Americans and enslaved Africans in Brazil is compared with the doubts and debate dedicated to the Christian neophytes in Japan, Spanish America, and Congo.