Early Modern History
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La diffusione dell’Utopia di Thomas More coincide con momenti di straordinaria tensione politica e sociale. La sua fortuna editoriale, col favorire un’ampia circolazione delle idee dell’autore anche negli ambienti vicini alla Riforma... more
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This paper tries to answer why the perception of the Devil changed a tempter doing God's will in the early medieval period, into an autonomous evil power waging war against God and Christendom by the early modern period. To answer this,... more
Scopo dichiarato dell’ordine dei cavalieri di Santo Stefano, fondato nel 1561 da Cosimo I de’ Medici anche per motivi di legittimazione dinastica, fu la difesa della cristianità dalla minaccia ottomana. La politica aggressiva nei... more
Valérie Piétri L'apparition du nobiliaire, en tant que nouveau genre littéraire et savant, permet sans doute de saisir une des inflexions majeures de la culture généa-logique française, à la croisée des transformations de l'état... more
In occasione dell’Anno Europeo del Patrimonio Culturale 2018 il Dipartimento di Beni Culturali dell’Università di Bologna ha promosso e organizzato un convegno internazionale, tenutosi a Ravenna nei giorni 21-23 novembre 2018, attraverso... more
The First of the Modern Ottomans blends biography with intellectual history. On the one hand, it is the story of an Ottoman life – the life of the scribe, ambassador, and prolific historian Ahmed Vâsıf (ca. 1735-1806), a man who... more
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI CATANIA UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUOREMETEORE. REPENTINE ASCESE E ASSENZA DI RADICAMENTO NEI TERRITORI DELL’ITALIA SPAGNOLA (metà XVI-metà XVIII sec.)7 febbraio 2022 – ore 14:30.8 febbraio 2022 – ore... more
Fracasado el Coloquio de Poissy (1561), y desestimada en consecuencia toda posibilidad de reconciliación bajo una única fe, la concordia dejará paso a la tolerancia. Será el canciller Michel de L’Hôpital (1504-1573) el encargado de... more
La diffusione dell’Utopia di Thomas More coincide con momenti di straordinaria tensione politica e sociale. La sua fortuna editoriale, col favorire un’ampia circolazione delle idee dell’autore anche negli ambienti vicini alla Riforma... more
John Davenant, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity and a British delegate to the Synod of Dordt, was a widely praised English Reformed theologian, but his exposition of the doctrine of predestination has been largely neglected. The... more
Campbell’s commercial interests led him to develop a legendary image of piracy that had a lasting impact to today.
During the reign of James II/VII Stuart (1685-1688), the political, diplomatic and cultural relations between the British court and the Italian states flourished as never before. This was due above all to the Roman-Catholic faith of the... more
Compares John Davenant's Hypothetical Universalism with the Westminster Confession of Faith.
Found in Beyond Calvin: Essays on the Diversity of the Reformed Tradition, eds. Bradford Littlejohn and Jonathan Tomes (2017, The Davenant Trust).
Found in Beyond Calvin: Essays on the Diversity of the Reformed Tradition, eds. Bradford Littlejohn and Jonathan Tomes (2017, The Davenant Trust).
This paper explores in detail the 37 carved cadaver monuments that exist in England (ECCMs). These monuments have been described by Panofsky as having a lifelike effigy and ‘showing the deceased as a mere corpse, wrapped only in a shroud... more
Despite their numerous similarities, Marranos in inquisitorial Spain and Recusants (and the so-called ‘Church Papists’), English Crypto-Catholics, in the wake of the English religious reforms, have rarely been studied concurrently. In... more
Who was Catalina de Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun? Swashbuckler, brawler, hard-headed businessperson, soldier, gallant, celebrity, transvestite, nun? How can one fail to be fascinated by her? A woman, yet a man; a soldier, yet a nun;... more
A atenção dos historiadores portugueses tem-se polarizado em torno do estudo das elites e dos grupos populares, concedendo pouca atenção aos setores da população que não se enquadram nessas duas categorias extremas. A presente tese tem... more
A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In this volume, Elisabeth Fraser shows that artists and the works they created in the Mediterranean during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were informed by mutual dependence... more
An examination of various aspects of the history of the port-city of Surat from the mid sixteenth to the mid eighteenth century.