Papers by Eleonora Cappuccilli
ACTA, 2023
The hagiography of the prophet and Dominican tertiary Caterina da Racconigi (1476-1547) is an imp... more The hagiography of the prophet and Dominican tertiary Caterina da Racconigi (1476-1547) is an impressive testimony of the construction of sanctity in sixteenth-century Italy. The hagiographic narrative responds to the often-contrasting needs of the common people disappointed by the corrupt clergy and seeking a path to salvation; to the clergy that strove to revive popular devotion; and to some parts of the humanist circles, looking for an answer to the religious and intellectual doubt that especially originated after the Reformation. Through the analysis of some passages of the two extant hagiographies of Caterina da Racconigi-Vitta et legenda, written by Caterina's confessors, and Compendio delle cose mirabili, written by the philosopher Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola-this article examinates the multi-layered meanings attributed to sanctity during the religious crisis of the sixteenth century. Reform, intellectual and religious doubt and certainty, and human freedom emerge as fundamental pillars of the hagiographic logic that shaped the language of sanctity.
Scienza & Politica, 2022
A partire dall’esperienza delle donne, e in particolare delle figure delle profetesse Domenica Na... more A partire dall’esperienza delle donne, e in particolare delle figure delle profetesse Domenica Narducci da Paradiso (1473-1553) e Paola Antonia Negri (1508-1555), il saggio discute il problema storico della riforma cristiana nell’Italia del primo Cinquecento. Attingendo alla metodologia della storia moderna e della storia dei concetti e facendo riferimento all’analisi del racconto agiografico, del rapporto con il potere politico, delle idee di riforma e della rappresentazione dell’individualità, il saggio intende contribuire al dibattito sul ruolo delle donne nella Riforma protestante/riforma cristiana.
SCIENZA & POLITICA, 2022
L’introduzione articola alcuni nodi concettuali che affiorano nell’indagare il pensiero politico ... more L’introduzione articola alcuni nodi concettuali che affiorano nell’indagare il pensiero politico delle donne nella prima modernità, in Europa e non solo. In particolare, si pone l’accento su quattro aspetti principali: il nesso tra politica e teologia, alla luce della pervasività della religione nella vita quotidiana e nell’elaborazione intellettuale; il rapporto simultaneamente di critica e legittimazione del potere politico; la messa in questione delle autorità patriarcali che pretendono di detenere il monopolio del sacro; l’affacciarsi delle donne sulla sfera pubblica nella sua lunga genesi. Inoltre, l’introduzione mostra le continuità e le discontinuità tra medioevo e prima età moderna per quanto concerne il pensiero politico delle donne, suggerendo la necessità di ripensare la tradizionale periodizzazione più attenta alle cesure che alle diverse facce della transizione.
Nonostante la sua rilevanza per il pensiero politico delle donne e per la
storia costituzionale i... more Nonostante la sua rilevanza per il pensiero politico delle donne e per la
storia costituzionale inglese, sono scarse le notizie biografiche su Mary
Astell (1666-1731), filosofa, teologa e panflettista. Viene “riscoperta”
negli anni Settanta del Novecento, quando l’interesse per la sua opera
aumenta sia nella filosofia e teoria politica, sia nella storiografia femminista, specialmente a causa della sua avanguardistica critica del matrimonio e della sua proposta di educazione per le fanciulle, che anticipano le idee di emancipazione femminile sostenute da pensatrici come Mary Wollstonecraft e Harriet Taylor Mill.
Tra melancolia e disciplina. Per una storia costituzionale delle dottrine politiche. Festschrift für Pierangelo Schiera. A cura di Monica Cioli e Maurizio Ricciardi, 2021
Renaissance Studies, 2021
This article reappraises the experience of the visionary Angelic Paola Antonia Negri (1508–1555) ... more This article reappraises the experience of the visionary Angelic Paola Antonia Negri (1508–1555) in order to reconstruct the missing links of a hidden genealogy of charismatic women. Birgitta of Sweden (1303–1373), celebrated author of eight books of revelations, played a major role in this genealogy, establishing the canon of women’s prophetic history and thus making it possible to talk of a Birgittine prophetic model. This article investigates how Negri, by exercising charismatic authority and developing her authorial voice, revived and ‘reactivated’ Birgitta’s prophetic model in its critique and legitimation of spiritual and temporal powers, its textual agency and its challenge to male hierarchies. Through the analysis of Negri’s Spiritual Letters (published posthumously in 1576), her hagiography, her milieu and the Inquisition’s and the Barnabites’ documents, this article shows how Negri made the Birgittine model available to all Christians, thus intensifying its potential to question the ecclesiastical and male monopoly of truth and spiritual power and the hierarchical nature of the early modern concept of authority.
Alla vigilia di un nuovo patriarcato. Il disordine delle donne nel Seicento inglese, 2020
L'articolo ricostruisce la crisi e la riaffermazione dell'ordine patriarcale nell'Inghilterra del... more L'articolo ricostruisce la crisi e la riaffermazione dell'ordine patriarcale nell'Inghilterra del Seicento e primo Settecento a partire dai testi di Sir Robert Filmer, John Locke, Mary Astell e delle predicatrici, profetesse e petitioners.
The article explores the crisis and reaffirmation of patriarchal order in Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth century England starting from the texts of Sir Robert Filmer, John Locke, Mary Astell and female preachers, prophets and petitioners.
The essay attempts to problematize Carl Schmitt’s friend/enemy distinction looking at Seventeenth... more The essay attempts to problematize Carl Schmitt’s friend/enemy distinction looking at Seventeenth century England. During the conflict between dissent and orthodoxy in the revolutionary period (1640-1700 ca.), women play a significant role by irrupting in the newly born public sphere as preachers, prophets, pamphleteers. Even if they are considered non-subjects, women appropriate shares of power by leading the religious sects and often abandoning their families in order to embrace the common life of their conventicle. While challenging the supremacy of the Anglican Church, women’s voice subverts sexual hierarchies. The contestation of power relationships based on sexual difference ends up combining non-conformist and conservative women, thus contributing to the creation of a complex image of the female enemy of patriarchy. Therefore, women represent the first, powerful incarnation of the “internal enemy” that will constitute a fundamental element in the future construction of society intended as political, social and sexual order.
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Il saggio intende problematizzare la distinzione schmittiana amico/nemico nel Seicento inglese. Durante il periodo rivoluzionario (1640-1700 ca.), le donne giocano un ruolo importante all’interno del conflitto tra dissenso e ortodossia, irrompendo nella sfera pubblica in via di costituzione come predicatrici, profetesse, panflettiste. Sebbene vengano considerate non-subjects, le donne si appropriano di quote di potere ponendosi a capo delle sette e spesso abbandonando le loro famiglie al fine di abbracciare la vita in comune della conventicola. La loro presa di parola, mettendo in discussione la supremazia della Chiesa Anglicana, finisce per sovvertire le gerarchie sessuali. Tuttavia, la contestazione delle relazioni sessuali di potere non proviene solo dalle nonconformiste ma anche dalle conservatrici, contribuendo così a creare un’immagine complessa del nemico femminile del patriarcato. Le donne rappresentano la prima, potente incarnazione del “nemico interno” che costituirà un elemento fondamentale della futura costruzione della società come ordine politico, sociale e sessuale.
Nel cinquecentesimo anniversario della Riforma protestante, il convegno La Bibbia e le donne a pa... more Nel cinquecentesimo anniversario della Riforma protestante, il convegno La Bibbia e le donne a partire dalla Riforma, organizzata dal Coordinamento Teologhe Italiane in collaborazione con la Chiesa Valdese e l’Università di Graz, ha dato nuovo vigore agli studi storici sul posto della donna nella reli-gione cristiana, segnalando come la crisi del Cinquecento abbia prodotto con-seguenze di lungo raggio nella politica e nella religione, in Europa e nel nuovo mondo. Il convegno internazionale dal taglio fortemente interdisciplinare ha visto la partecipazione di circa venti relatrici e relatori di area tedesca, anglo-americana e italiana a partire dalla storia travagliata del rapporto tra le donne e il testo biblico tra il continente europeo e gli Stati Uniti.
Scienza Politica Per Una Storia Delle Dottrine, Dec 17, 2013
Scienza Politica Per Una Storia Delle Dottrine, Dec 17, 2013
Scienza Politica Per Una Storia Delle Dottrine, Jul 24, 2013
A B S T R A C T Il pensiero femminista è parte costitutiva del pensiero politico e della sua stor... more A B S T R A C T Il pensiero femminista è parte costitutiva del pensiero politico e della sua storia. Esso è sia metodo di indagine, presa di parola e di parte sul mondo e rivendicazione della centralità politica delle donne, sia critica paradossale del pen-siero politico e filosofico moderno. In quanto obiezione imprevista, il discorso femminista tende costantemente i con-fini del canone della politica e produce teoria politica, imponendo la ridefinizione delle categorie usate per interpre-tare il presente e il passato. Attraversando sei secoli di storia, dalla riappropriazione della tradizione nel XV secolo fino alla tensione con il neoliberalismo nel XX secolo, il discorso protofemminista e femminista costituisce nel tempo una costante interruzione del monologo della civiltà patriarcale occidentale, mostrando la sua centralità nella produ-zione, nella crisi e nella ridefinizione dell'ordine politico e sociale e dimostrando pertanto di essere una fonte impre-scindibile per la storia delle dottrine politiche.
Feminist thought is a constitutive part of political thought and its history. It is both a method of inquiry, a voice and a stance on the world, a claim of women's political centrality, and a paradoxical critique of modern political and philosophical thought. As unexpected objection, feminist discourse constantly stretches the borders of the political canon and produces critical political theory, imposing the redefinition of the categories used to interpret the present and the past. Going through six centuries of history, from the reappropriation of tradition in XV century to the tension with neoliberalism in XX century, protofeminist and feminist discourse constitutes in time a constant interruption of the monologue of Western patriarchal civilization, showing its centrality in the production, crisis and redefinition of political and social order. Thus, feminist discourse is an essential source of the history of political thought.
During the era of the English Revolutions and shortly after that, some spaces, albeit limited, of... more During the era of the English Revolutions and shortly after that, some spaces, albeit limited, of female visibility open up. Thanks to the window of opportunity caused by the collapse of censorship, the participation in the radical sects and in the Civil war, some remarkable women succeed in introducing themselves in the public sphere, shaping it since its very genesis. Moreover, analysing law institutions as jointure and feoffment, the attempt is to reconstruct some fragments of juridical female autonomy, which belie the total pervasiveness of coverture in the XVII century. As in private law, in public law women, in the role of queens, gain centrality: the principle of female authority, while safeguards the holding of the monarchical regime, destabilizes its patriarchal structure. Going through the works of Katherine Chidley, Margaret Cavendish, Damaris Masham and Mary Astell, the essay aims at reconstructing women's public voice, a voice which upsets the consolidated frames and subverts the established positions, questioning the same social hierarchies.
Conference Presentations by Eleonora Cappuccilli
This research colloquium at Paderborn University (Germany) is aimed at PhD candidates. It is also... more This research colloquium at Paderborn University (Germany) is aimed at PhD candidates. It is also a forum for international students and scholars of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists.
Program:
April 25th, 4-7pm: Workshop Women Intellectuals in 18th Century Germany
Dr. Corey W. Dyck (Western Ontario)
Of Minds and Medicine: The Women Intellectuals of Halle
Bernhard Ritter (Klagenfurt)
Solace or Counsel for Death: Kant and Maria von Herbert
May 23rd, 4-6pm
Dr. Eleonora Cappuccilli (Bologna)
The Political Theology of Mary Astell
June 27th, 4-6pm
Ruggero Sciuto (Oxford)
Emilie Du Châtelet and the Three Leibnizian Versions of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
July 11th, 4-7pm: Workshop: Anthropology and Metaphysics in the Munich and Freiburg Circles
Dr. Rodney Parker (Paderborn)
Stein’s Second Conversion. From Realism to Idealism
Dr. Henning Peucker (Paderborn)
Metaphysische Elemente in Husserls später Ethik
Prof. Dr. Wolfhart Henckmann (München)
Schelers Anthropologie des Weibes
Further information
https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/events/event/calendar/event/tx_cal_phpicalendar/research-colloquium-history-of-women-philosophers-and-scientists/
Call for Papers by Eleonora Cappuccilli
Spaces of Interiority, Spaces of Devotion, Gendered Spaces: Contesting Boundaries in the Early Mo... more Spaces of Interiority, Spaces of Devotion, Gendered Spaces: Contesting Boundaries in the Early Modern Reformations
This panel seeks papers that discuss how religious women, prophets and mystics reckoned with, negotiated, challenged or reflected upon boundaries and spaces intended as physical, political, gendered, interior ones – such as the convent, the city, the community, a specific confession or rule – in the age of religious reform (1450-1650). Possible contributions will deal with the discernment of spirits as a relationship between external rules dictated by confessors and male authorities and internal criteria established by women; melancholy and its transition from being considered a sinful state of hopelessness and despair, to a space of subjectivation; obedience as a dialogue between interiority, social constraints and God; discipline and the legitimation or contestation of political and ecclesiastical powers; prophecy as a battlefield in and between different religious confessions during the division of Christianity.
Particular attention will be given to interdisciplinary, comparative and transnational approaches, models and legacies that demonstrate possible continuities and separations between different religious traditions and confessions.
Please submit an abstract of max. 250 words or less and a bio of max. 150 words (including affiliation, city and phone number) to me at eleonora.cappuccilli@utoronto.ca by April 17. Please indicate if you need audiovisual equipment. Notification of acceptance will be sent by April 20.
https://www.rsa.org/forms/FormResponseView.asp?id=1D72993D-FF84-4DCC-A50B-179BBF0EC7AC
Book Reviews by Eleonora Cappuccilli
Studi Germanici, 2021
Dominare tempi inquieti di Isabella Consolati – la prima monografia su Otto Brunner mai data alle... more Dominare tempi inquieti di Isabella Consolati – la prima monografia su Otto Brunner mai data alle stampe – restituisce al grande storico austriaco un posto centrale non solo nella ridefinizione della metodologia della ricerca storica, ma anche nella storia complessiva del pensiero politico. Brunner emerge qui come teorico del sociale inteso come ordine pienamente storico, animato da soggetti concreti – «uomini e gruppi umani» – e caratterizzato dal permanere del dominio nella società oltre l’autonarrazione della sua fine.
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Papers by Eleonora Cappuccilli
storia costituzionale inglese, sono scarse le notizie biografiche su Mary
Astell (1666-1731), filosofa, teologa e panflettista. Viene “riscoperta”
negli anni Settanta del Novecento, quando l’interesse per la sua opera
aumenta sia nella filosofia e teoria politica, sia nella storiografia femminista, specialmente a causa della sua avanguardistica critica del matrimonio e della sua proposta di educazione per le fanciulle, che anticipano le idee di emancipazione femminile sostenute da pensatrici come Mary Wollstonecraft e Harriet Taylor Mill.
The article explores the crisis and reaffirmation of patriarchal order in Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth century England starting from the texts of Sir Robert Filmer, John Locke, Mary Astell and female preachers, prophets and petitioners.
*****
Il saggio intende problematizzare la distinzione schmittiana amico/nemico nel Seicento inglese. Durante il periodo rivoluzionario (1640-1700 ca.), le donne giocano un ruolo importante all’interno del conflitto tra dissenso e ortodossia, irrompendo nella sfera pubblica in via di costituzione come predicatrici, profetesse, panflettiste. Sebbene vengano considerate non-subjects, le donne si appropriano di quote di potere ponendosi a capo delle sette e spesso abbandonando le loro famiglie al fine di abbracciare la vita in comune della conventicola. La loro presa di parola, mettendo in discussione la supremazia della Chiesa Anglicana, finisce per sovvertire le gerarchie sessuali. Tuttavia, la contestazione delle relazioni sessuali di potere non proviene solo dalle nonconformiste ma anche dalle conservatrici, contribuendo così a creare un’immagine complessa del nemico femminile del patriarcato. Le donne rappresentano la prima, potente incarnazione del “nemico interno” che costituirà un elemento fondamentale della futura costruzione della società come ordine politico, sociale e sessuale.
Feminist thought is a constitutive part of political thought and its history. It is both a method of inquiry, a voice and a stance on the world, a claim of women's political centrality, and a paradoxical critique of modern political and philosophical thought. As unexpected objection, feminist discourse constantly stretches the borders of the political canon and produces critical political theory, imposing the redefinition of the categories used to interpret the present and the past. Going through six centuries of history, from the reappropriation of tradition in XV century to the tension with neoliberalism in XX century, protofeminist and feminist discourse constitutes in time a constant interruption of the monologue of Western patriarchal civilization, showing its centrality in the production, crisis and redefinition of political and social order. Thus, feminist discourse is an essential source of the history of political thought.
Conference Presentations by Eleonora Cappuccilli
Program:
April 25th, 4-7pm: Workshop Women Intellectuals in 18th Century Germany
Dr. Corey W. Dyck (Western Ontario)
Of Minds and Medicine: The Women Intellectuals of Halle
Bernhard Ritter (Klagenfurt)
Solace or Counsel for Death: Kant and Maria von Herbert
May 23rd, 4-6pm
Dr. Eleonora Cappuccilli (Bologna)
The Political Theology of Mary Astell
June 27th, 4-6pm
Ruggero Sciuto (Oxford)
Emilie Du Châtelet and the Three Leibnizian Versions of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
July 11th, 4-7pm: Workshop: Anthropology and Metaphysics in the Munich and Freiburg Circles
Dr. Rodney Parker (Paderborn)
Stein’s Second Conversion. From Realism to Idealism
Dr. Henning Peucker (Paderborn)
Metaphysische Elemente in Husserls später Ethik
Prof. Dr. Wolfhart Henckmann (München)
Schelers Anthropologie des Weibes
Further information
https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/events/event/calendar/event/tx_cal_phpicalendar/research-colloquium-history-of-women-philosophers-and-scientists/
Call for Papers by Eleonora Cappuccilli
This panel seeks papers that discuss how religious women, prophets and mystics reckoned with, negotiated, challenged or reflected upon boundaries and spaces intended as physical, political, gendered, interior ones – such as the convent, the city, the community, a specific confession or rule – in the age of religious reform (1450-1650). Possible contributions will deal with the discernment of spirits as a relationship between external rules dictated by confessors and male authorities and internal criteria established by women; melancholy and its transition from being considered a sinful state of hopelessness and despair, to a space of subjectivation; obedience as a dialogue between interiority, social constraints and God; discipline and the legitimation or contestation of political and ecclesiastical powers; prophecy as a battlefield in and between different religious confessions during the division of Christianity.
Particular attention will be given to interdisciplinary, comparative and transnational approaches, models and legacies that demonstrate possible continuities and separations between different religious traditions and confessions.
Please submit an abstract of max. 250 words or less and a bio of max. 150 words (including affiliation, city and phone number) to me at eleonora.cappuccilli@utoronto.ca by April 17. Please indicate if you need audiovisual equipment. Notification of acceptance will be sent by April 20.
Book Reviews by Eleonora Cappuccilli
storia costituzionale inglese, sono scarse le notizie biografiche su Mary
Astell (1666-1731), filosofa, teologa e panflettista. Viene “riscoperta”
negli anni Settanta del Novecento, quando l’interesse per la sua opera
aumenta sia nella filosofia e teoria politica, sia nella storiografia femminista, specialmente a causa della sua avanguardistica critica del matrimonio e della sua proposta di educazione per le fanciulle, che anticipano le idee di emancipazione femminile sostenute da pensatrici come Mary Wollstonecraft e Harriet Taylor Mill.
The article explores the crisis and reaffirmation of patriarchal order in Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth century England starting from the texts of Sir Robert Filmer, John Locke, Mary Astell and female preachers, prophets and petitioners.
*****
Il saggio intende problematizzare la distinzione schmittiana amico/nemico nel Seicento inglese. Durante il periodo rivoluzionario (1640-1700 ca.), le donne giocano un ruolo importante all’interno del conflitto tra dissenso e ortodossia, irrompendo nella sfera pubblica in via di costituzione come predicatrici, profetesse, panflettiste. Sebbene vengano considerate non-subjects, le donne si appropriano di quote di potere ponendosi a capo delle sette e spesso abbandonando le loro famiglie al fine di abbracciare la vita in comune della conventicola. La loro presa di parola, mettendo in discussione la supremazia della Chiesa Anglicana, finisce per sovvertire le gerarchie sessuali. Tuttavia, la contestazione delle relazioni sessuali di potere non proviene solo dalle nonconformiste ma anche dalle conservatrici, contribuendo così a creare un’immagine complessa del nemico femminile del patriarcato. Le donne rappresentano la prima, potente incarnazione del “nemico interno” che costituirà un elemento fondamentale della futura costruzione della società come ordine politico, sociale e sessuale.
Feminist thought is a constitutive part of political thought and its history. It is both a method of inquiry, a voice and a stance on the world, a claim of women's political centrality, and a paradoxical critique of modern political and philosophical thought. As unexpected objection, feminist discourse constantly stretches the borders of the political canon and produces critical political theory, imposing the redefinition of the categories used to interpret the present and the past. Going through six centuries of history, from the reappropriation of tradition in XV century to the tension with neoliberalism in XX century, protofeminist and feminist discourse constitutes in time a constant interruption of the monologue of Western patriarchal civilization, showing its centrality in the production, crisis and redefinition of political and social order. Thus, feminist discourse is an essential source of the history of political thought.
Program:
April 25th, 4-7pm: Workshop Women Intellectuals in 18th Century Germany
Dr. Corey W. Dyck (Western Ontario)
Of Minds and Medicine: The Women Intellectuals of Halle
Bernhard Ritter (Klagenfurt)
Solace or Counsel for Death: Kant and Maria von Herbert
May 23rd, 4-6pm
Dr. Eleonora Cappuccilli (Bologna)
The Political Theology of Mary Astell
June 27th, 4-6pm
Ruggero Sciuto (Oxford)
Emilie Du Châtelet and the Three Leibnizian Versions of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
July 11th, 4-7pm: Workshop: Anthropology and Metaphysics in the Munich and Freiburg Circles
Dr. Rodney Parker (Paderborn)
Stein’s Second Conversion. From Realism to Idealism
Dr. Henning Peucker (Paderborn)
Metaphysische Elemente in Husserls später Ethik
Prof. Dr. Wolfhart Henckmann (München)
Schelers Anthropologie des Weibes
Further information
https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/events/event/calendar/event/tx_cal_phpicalendar/research-colloquium-history-of-women-philosophers-and-scientists/
This panel seeks papers that discuss how religious women, prophets and mystics reckoned with, negotiated, challenged or reflected upon boundaries and spaces intended as physical, political, gendered, interior ones – such as the convent, the city, the community, a specific confession or rule – in the age of religious reform (1450-1650). Possible contributions will deal with the discernment of spirits as a relationship between external rules dictated by confessors and male authorities and internal criteria established by women; melancholy and its transition from being considered a sinful state of hopelessness and despair, to a space of subjectivation; obedience as a dialogue between interiority, social constraints and God; discipline and the legitimation or contestation of political and ecclesiastical powers; prophecy as a battlefield in and between different religious confessions during the division of Christianity.
Particular attention will be given to interdisciplinary, comparative and transnational approaches, models and legacies that demonstrate possible continuities and separations between different religious traditions and confessions.
Please submit an abstract of max. 250 words or less and a bio of max. 150 words (including affiliation, city and phone number) to me at eleonora.cappuccilli@utoronto.ca by April 17. Please indicate if you need audiovisual equipment. Notification of acceptance will be sent by April 20.
In person and online conference (zoom link in the poster)
Prophetic Women from a Global Perspective
Porter Fortune Fall 2024
Sept 13-14
Sally Barksdale Honors College Conference Room,
The University of Mississippi
Program
Sept 13-14
Sally Barksdale Honors College Conference Room,
The University of Mississippi
Free and Open to the Public
Friday Sept 13
10-10.30 Welcome
Session 1 Charismatic Women
Commentator Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (University of Pittsburgh)
Friday 10.30-12
Eleonora Cappuccilli, Prophetic Melancholy in Camilla Battista da Varano (d.1524) (MSCA post-doctoral fellow, University of Toronto)
Freddy Cristobal Dominguez, Luisa and Maria: The Story of Two Would-Be Saints (in 16th century Europe (University of Arkansas)
Elena Valussi, (A survey of) Women Shaman, Diviners and Spirit Mediums in China (Loyola University, Chicago)
Session 2 Revolt and Revolution
Commentator Edward Wright-Rios (Vanderbilt University)
Friday 1.30-2.30
Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara, A Divine Call to Arms: Female Prophecy and the Maya Tzeltal Revolt of 1712 (University of Cincinnati)
Nancy Bradley Warren, Prophetic Women and the Politics of Conversion in the Old and New Worlds: Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza and Marie de l’Incarnation (Texas A&M University)
Session 3 Divination and Prophecy
Commentator Christine Lee (The University of Mississippi)
3.00-4.00
Jiayao Wang, Female Divinators and their Contemporary Divinatory Practices among the Yi ethnic group in Southwest China (Augusta University)
Drew William Billings, The Demonization of Female Prophets in Early Christianity
(The University of Mississippi)
Keynote Reception and Lecture
Barnard Observatory (Tupelo Room)
7.00
"Prophetic Voices: From Biblical Prophetesses to Modern Televangelist Queens”
Reverend Dr. Renita J. Weems (Professor of Biblical Studies and Academic Dean at Gammon Theological Seminary)
Introduced by Ethel Scurlock (Dean of Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College)
Saturday
10-11.30
Session 4
Prophetic Women in the Modern Era
Commentator Gail Tapscott (Harvard MDiv and Unitarian Universalist Minister)
Michael E. O’Sullivan, Modulating Prophecy: Therese Neuman and Female Prophecy in Twentieth-Century Germany (Marist College)
Emily Suzanne Johnson, Political Prophecies and Maternal Concerns: Conservative Christian Women in the Late-Twentieth Century United States (Ball State University)
Closing Discussion 11.30-12
Closing Reception/Tarot Workshop
Southside Art Gallery
5-6.30
prophetic persona on a model of sanctity and religious reform that challenged traditionally male political and ecclesiastical hierarchies. She will discuss the impact of religious and political networks, of female role models – such as Catherine of Siena – and of Savonarola’s influence in creating the visionary connection between the two women. In Florence the
Dominican nun Fiammetta Frescobaldi engaged as a historian with the social and cultural debates of her time. Born to a prestigious Florentine family, Frescobaldi entered a Dominican convent at age 12 and remained there for fifty years until her death. Becoming disabled in her early twenties, Frescobaldi began to write voluminously: histories, hagiographies, chronicles, scientific texts, and translations from Latin to the Italian vernacular. Lorena Sodano Flores will address Fiammetta’s engagement in Renaissance Florentine historiography from inside the convent and the ways she expressed her opinions about cultural and social life in Florence.
Time and place: Sep. 14, 2021 2:00 PM–4:00 PM, The Norwegian Institute in Rome
The event is hybrid taking place at The Norwegian Institute in Rome, and it will also be possible to follow the seminar through Zoom. To receive a link, please contact: eleonora.cappuccilli@ifikk.uio.no or clara.stella@ifikk.uio.no
The seminar Sacred Books, Holy Relics and Godly Women: New Perspectives on Sanctity in Renaissance Europe starts from the new research findings of Emeritus Professor Brian Richardson (University of Leeds, UK), author of the recent book Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy (2020), and art historian Dr Ruth S. Noyes (National Museum of Denmark), currently working on a book project called Translatio. Richardson and Noyes are two key experts in the history of the circulation of texts and premodern migrations of sacral heritage across the Nordic-Baltic region and greater Europe respectively. The seminar will investigate the notion of sanctity in the Renaissance by looking at women as key actors in the circulation of religious books and objects. Richardson's and Noyes's presentations will be followed by an open discussion. The proposed seminar is related to the ongoing research on sanctity pursued at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas via the projects "The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden" and "Women Writing Saints" which focus respectively on the circulation of Birgitta of Sweden's Revelations and the production of religious literature by women writers in Renaissance Italy, in connection with the activities of the interdisciplinary research group 'Textual Traditions and Communities in Early Modern Europe'.
The idea of a physical display of God’s possession became a marker of identity of the first generation of Quakers, of the persecuted Huguenots of the Cevennes, and of some Jansenist groups. However, the idea of the body as a prophetic theater was not alien to many people and groups in early modern times, as evidenced by the case of the Sabbatians. While these intense charismatic phenomena were perceived by those who experienced them as intense manifestations of the divine, their representation was used to vilify, denigrate, and ridicule these religious nonconformists. The theological and philosophical discussions about religious "Enthusiasm" were at the center of the confessional polemics of early modern times.