The Fortune of the Casa di San Giorgio and the Origins of the Corporations
Dr. Carlo Taviani (project in collaboration with Villa I Tatti, University of Harvard)
Corporations are currently among the strongest and most influential organizations in the world. One important turning point in the development of their capacities took place in the early modern period when they successfully acquired huge amounts of capital in order to better afford the exorbitant costs and risks of travel from Europe to Africa, Asia and America. During this period they also assumed political tasks, progressively ruling lands and ...
Venice and the Radical Reformation
PD Dr. Riccarda Suitner
The religious landscape of the mid-16th-century Republic of Venice was characterized by the attempt of the Inquisition to infiltrate and repress the (prevalently Anabaptist) reformed conventicles which had sprung up throughout the Region. The penetration of ideas of the so-called “Radical Reformation” into this territory was easier than elsewhere in Italy, given many factors: the larger volume of international contacts and the existence of ...
Wahrheitsbegriffe im frühneuzeitlichen historischen Diskurs im Kontext von Kanon und Zensur
Dr. Andreea Badea
Ursprünglich als Waffe im interkonfessionellen Diskurs eingesetzt, wurde das Schreiben von katholischer Kirchengeschichte im Laufe des "langen nachtridentinischen Jahrhunderts" zunehmend zum Störfaktor römisch-kurialer Zentralisierungsversuche. Deshalb reagierte die Kurie nicht selten mit Zensur auf solche Devianzen.
Das Projekt beschäftigt sich mit circa 25 in den verschiedenen römischen Kongregationen verhandelten ...
