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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 ...
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Edited Journal Issues by Fernanda Alfieri
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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).
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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.
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Articles by Fernanda Alfieri
Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 203 | 2023, 141-166.
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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.
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Rivista il Mulino , 2024
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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.
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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.
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Storica, n. 71, anno XXIV, pp. 133-136, 2018
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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.
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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?
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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
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
Le domande di partecipazione vanno inviate all'indirizzo linguaggi.storia.isig@fbk.eu
La scadenza per la presentazione delle domande è fissata al 15 marzo 2020
Per ulteriori informazioni si vedano il bando e la pagina https://isig.fbk.eu/it/formazione/summer-school/