CFP: 'Rediscovering Inquisition Research and new perspectives from the Archives of the Inquisition(s)' (Naples, 17-18 SEPT 2025 ) [DEADLINE 30 NOV 2024]

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The inquisitorial archives have undergone a process of dispersal over the past two centuries, the outcomes of which are only partly known. While some large inquisitorial funds are still preserved in public and private institutions, the destination of many other archives (or archival series) has been more troubled and, in some cases, not well known. 

This call for papers intends to gather contributions, especially from young researchers, regarding new studies and/or new discoveries on inquisitorial archives, with a focus on the archives of the local courts of the (Roman, Spanish or Portuguese) Inquisition. 

Contributions could be focused on: 

- little-known or not yet studied funds or archival series of inquisitorial courts; 

- newly discovered funds that survived documentary dispersion (e.g., correspondence, instructions, etc.); 

- trials or files that shed new lights on the history of the Inquisition; 

- new discoveries on the libraries of local courts of the Inquisition; 

- the history of documentary funds of inquisitorial origin. All speakers will be required to give a brief preliminary overview on the history of the inquisitorial court investigated, from the origin to the suppression phase. 

The conference will take place on 17-18 September 2025 in Naples. Reimbursement of travel expenses (up to a maximum of 200 euros from Italy and 400 euros from abroad) and lodging will be provided. Selected papers will be published in a final volume. The article submissions are due by 1st November 2025. 

Each proposal should contain an abstract of the content to be illustrated (400-500 words) and a short cv of the proposer (200 words). Deadline for proposal submission: November 30, 2024. Acceptance will be communicated by December 15, 2024. Infos and proposal submission (Organization): Silvia Toppetta - silvia.toppetta@unimore.it (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)

Issued by: DIGITAL INQUISITION. Tools for multimedia access and exploitation of the Archive of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; NETEX - NETworks and EXchanges within the Congregations of the Roman Curia: a Digital Analysis of the Early Roman Church Archives; in collaboration with: INQUIRE - International Centre for Research on Inquisitions.

Scientific Commettee (members of DIGITAL INQUISITION/NETEX projects): Matteo Al Kalak, Nicoletta Bazzano, Massimo Carlo Giannini, Vittoria Fiorelli. 

BOOK: Ange ROVERE, Pascal Paoli. De Lumières et d'ombres [Les Méditerranées; 21] (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2024), ISBN 978-2-406-16669-6, € 48

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Abstract:

Pascal Paoli domine l’histoire de la Corse au XVIIIe siècle. Ce livre étudie la manière dont il a essayé de construire un État dans une société lestée par ses archaïsmes et les rivalités internationales. Sa participation à la Révolution et sa rupture avec Paris éclairent la permanence de ses choix politiques.

 Read more here: DOI 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-16671-9.

 

ARTICLE: Achille MAROTTA, "The Muslim Friend: Cross-Confessional Male Intimacy in Eighteenth-Century Italy" (The Journal of Early Modern History ) 230-252 [OPEN ACCESS]

 

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Abstract:

In early modern Italy, stereotypes about Muslim men’s supposed inclination towards the vice of ‘sodomy’ gave rise to fears that Christian masculinity was being tainted. Eighteenth-century court records from the Republic of Genoa and the Papal States contain numerous instances of cross-confessional male relations that faced persecution by state authorities. In each of these cases, Christian men were prosecuted for taking a sexually ‘passive’ role in relation to sexually ‘active’ Muslims, while the reverse scenario was never pursued. This article argues that the sexual focus of judicial authorities obscured the enduring bonds of affection and mutual obligation that developed between men across religious lines. The existence of these relationships unveils an intimate sphere of connections across faith in the early modern Mediterranean while highlighting an intersectional site of Christian social anxiety, where fears of religious contamination overlapped with concerns about same-sex intimacy.

Read the article in open access: DOI 10.1163/15700658-bja10076.

LECTURE: La monarchia spagnola in età moderna: istituzioni e diritto (secoli XVI-XVII) - lezione del prof. Faustino José Martinez Martinez - Genova 18 aprile 2023

 

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BOOK: Joëlle ALAZARD, Céline BORELLO, Camille DESENCLOS & Fabien SALESSE (dir.), Communautés et mobilités en Méditerranée de la fin du XVe siècle au milieu du XVIIIe siècle [AHMUF/APHG, collection Amphi] (Paris: Bréal, 2023), ISBN 9782749552934, € 18

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Abstract:

Faisant suite à la Journée organisée par l'APHG le 17 novembre 2022, cet ouvrage propose des articles sur la question d'histoire moderne au programme l'agrégation externe d’histoire 2023 : Communauté et mobilités en Méditerranée de la fin du XVe siècle au milieu du XVIIIe siècle. Les lecteurs, étudiants, enseignants et grand public pourront découvrir les contributions des spécialistes du sujet. L'ouvrage indispensable pour la préparation de l’agrégation mais aussi un ouvrage de référence. Ces textes sont réunis par Joëlle Alazard, par Céline Borello, Camille Desenclos et Fabien Salesse.

On the editor:

Vice-présidente de l'APHG, l'association des professeursd'histoire-géographie, et professeure d'histoire en classes préparatoireslittéraires au lycée Faidherbe de Lille, Joëlle Alazard a développé les cafévirtuels de l'association, qui sont désormais bien ancrés dans les agendas desprofesseurs d'histoire-géographie.

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CFP: ‘The Cloven Dukes’ The Mediterranean diplomacy of the small Italian powers (1530-1730) - 7-8 November 2023, Haifa [DEADLINE 1 MAY 2023]

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Organizers: Davide Trentacoste (HCMH) & Francesco Caprioli (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).

Diplomatic history is one of the fields that has best embodied the global and cultural turn that in recent decades has led scholars to focus on various historical phenomena in new spaces through new methodological lenses. Under the umbrella category of “New Diplomatic History”, scholarship on early modern Mediterranean diplomacy has programmatically gone beyond and reworked some of the conventional topics and paradigms related to the political relations established between Christian and Muslim powers. In this field of study, various studies have shown how the early modern Mediterranean context was characterized not only by a political-religious clash, but also by intense exchanges and dialogue, shaped among powers of different cultures and confessions. However, most of these investigations have only emphasized the relations established by the major Latin-Christian European political entities (i.e., the Habsburg Empire, the Republic of Venice, or the Spanish and French monarchies), leaving other actors in the background, such as Italian regional powers like Parma, Modena, or Lucca.

Following on from these premises, this conference intends to explore the diplomatic strategies, models, agencies, and practices adopted by Italian duchies and republics when negotiating with the Ottomans, the Safavids or the various Muslim polities of North Africa, and to compare them with those traditionally deployed in the European context.

By addressing the issue of Christian-Muslim diplomatic relations through the eyes of the small Italian regional powers during the early modern times, our aim will be twofold: first, we want to offer a fresh overview of the small Italian powers’ diplomatic strategies towards Muslim states throughout the early modern age. Secondly, we want to provide a useful discussion about similarities and dissimilarities among small Italian states regarding how they used diplomacy to represent themselves outside the Latin-Christian world.

Themes

The conference themes may include, but are not limited to:

1. Differences and similarities in small Italian states’ diplomatic strategies. How did they act outside Latin-Christian Europe and how did they present themselves when dealing with Muslim powers?
2. Diplomatic agencies and practices used by small Italian states when negotiating with Muslim powers. Was there a culture of interfaith diplomacy shared by these regional powers during the early modern age?
3. Changes and continuities in small Italian states’ policy. To what extent did diplomatic negotiations with Muslim rulers alter the policy of Italian regional powers and how they were perceived in the Christian world?

Deadline & details

Maximum 250-word abstract and a short CV (no more than 1 page).

Please send these documents to: clovendukes@gmail.com

Deadline for submission is May 1st, 2023.

Applicants will be notified of the acceptance of their proposal by May 15th, 2023.

Please send your inquiries to clovendukes@gmail.com

 

The Haifa Center for Mediterranean History will cover the costs of accommodation and local transport on the days of the event. More details on this will be provided after the closing of the CFP and the notification of acceptance to participants. Some modest travel support may be on offer, pending the availability of funds.

SPECIAL ISSUE: Stratégies et procédures d’identification des étrangers (mondes hispaniques-Méditerranée, xviie-xixe siècles) (ed. Arnaud BARTOLOMEI & Sylain LLORET) (Mélanges de la Casa de Vélazquez LI (2021), nr. 1)

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Arnaud Bartolomei et Sylvain Lloret Présentation

Óscar Recio Morales Gobernar la alteridad El «Protector de Extranjeros» en España (siglos xvi-xviii)

Abstract:

The legal figure of the protector has its roots in the Roman Empire; it was taken up by the Christianity associated with the concept of charity and recovered in modern Europe in its triple aspect of guardian, mediator and defender. In the Spanish administration, the figure of the protector of the indians is the best known, thanks to the numerous studies on the legal status of the indigenous. The «Protector of Foreigners», on the other hand, is virtually unknown. This contribution examines its evolution and the practice of protection. It argues that the «Protector of Foreigners» could have contributed to the management of an otherness that moved, in a short time frame, from a reduced peninsular space to a global dimension. The practice of protection, however, was channelled by such a complex, technical list of subsidies, and such a broad set of non-institutionalised social mechanisms, that there was, in fact, an abundance of figures acting as protectors.

Jörg Ulbert Identifier pour contrôler La monarchie française et l’identification de ses ressortissants expatriés (xviie-xviiie siècle, Empire ottoman – Espagne)

Abstract:

Mercantilism views the population as wealth, as a resource that must be protected. To prevent emigration and transform it into controlled expatriation, the States implement restrictive legislation. In France, this desire is reflected in a series of texts designed to prevent its subjects from settling permanently abroad. Through these measures the government pursues several objectives. The most important being to ensure that the assets amassed by the expatriates eventually find their way back to France. Another objective concerns only non-Catholic countries and, first and foremost, the Ottoman Empire. The authorities try to do everything possible to prevent their nationals converting to Islam. The article offers an analysis of the motivations that lead the French government to control expatriation. Above all, it will clarify the role that French consuls play in its implementation.

Arnaud Bartolomei Déchéance de nationalité ou de citoyenneté ? L’exclusion de l’immatriculation consulaire des ressortissants français en Espagne ayant prêté le serment de fidélité à Charles IV en 1791

Abstract:

In 1796, the French consul in Cadiz refused to record «on the matricular register» of French citizens residing abroad, compatriots who, five years earlier, had agreed to take an oath of loyalty to the King of Spain to escape the threats of expulsion that then weighed on French nationals. This decision gave rise to protests and led the political authorities of the Directorate to rule on the case of the citizens who took these oaths and, more generally, on the meaning of the consular registration procedure. The debates between the most radical elements of the revolutionary government, who wanted to exclude those who had taken the oath from French nationality, and the pragmatists, anxious not to deprive France of part of its living forces, lead to the question of the condition of foreigners in modern Europe, and the changes induced by the revolutionary rupture, from the point of view of their country of origin.

Catia Brilli Una nación en camino La migración genovesa y la afiliación consular en las costas atlánticas (1770-1865)

Abstract:

Cet article analyse l’évolution du rôle des consuls dans les territoires de la monarchie hispanique, lors de l’émigration gênoise de la fin du xviiie siècle à la première moitié du xixe siècle. L’émigration depuis les côtes ligures a connu sur cette période de profonds changements politiques et institutionnels, qui ont conduit d’une part à la disparition de la même république de Gênes et à son annexion au royaume de Sardaigne, et d’autre part à la désintégration de la monarchie hispanique, à laquelle les hommes d’affaires génois avaient lié leurs fortunes. Afin d’identifier les éventuels changements ou les continuités dans l’affiliation consulaire génoise face à l’émergence de nouvelles réalités étatiques, l’analyse se concentrera sur le port de Cadix, un haut lieu du commerce avec les Indes et qui abrite l’une des plus importantes communautés d’expatriés à la fin de l’ancien régime, et le port de Buenos Aires, principal lieu d’établissement de l’émigration génoise moderne en Amérique après l’effondrement de l’ordre colonial.

Tomás Pérez Vejo La debatida nacionalidad de los españoles europeos en los nuevos Estados-nación americanos

Abstract:

The question of the nationality of Spaniards born in the monarchy’s European territories but living in America was complex and was debated in the States that had gained independence. Opinions oscillated between the universal declaration of citizenship and the equally universal expulsion of the natives of the old metropolis, both at times occurring within the same country. This work offers an analysis of the way in which this was resolved by the various new Nation-States, with particular attention to the Mexican case, on the assumption that it was not only an administrative problem, but that it formed part of the process of national construction in Latin America. A problem of nation rather than State.

Anne-Marie Planel Les ressortissants de la protection consulaire française en pays musulman  Le cas des Algériens de Tunisie sous le Second Empire

Abstract:

Since the capture of Algiers in 1830, Algerian Muslims and Jews who took refuge in this Ottoman regency could benefit from French consular protection under certain conditions and if they requested it. Few of them accepted being registered in this way. However, in 1865, Napoleon III’s declaration that the Arabs of Algeria were now French nationals, and no longer subjects, led to them hoping for «the right to have rights». The legal recognition of French national affiliation did not allow the Algerian colonised people to become French citizens collectively. However, it provoked a conflict of sovereignty between the French consulate and the bey of Tunis, the victims of which were the French-registered Algerians: some were deported by the Tunisian government to French Algeria, others were «denationalised» by the consulate if they continued to live within the «Tunisian nation»

Miscellanées

Antoine Brix À propos de l’original français de la traduction catalane des Grandes Chroniques de France

Santiago Aragón Mateos Aproximación a los campos semánticos de la sociedad en la lengua del Siglo de Oro

Francisco Orrego González «Un descubrimiento reserbado en la oscuridad de estos destinos…»

Carlos Nogueira A sátira na poesia realista portuguesa

Actualité de la recherche

Débats. Reflections on the Interplay between Race, Ethnicity and Migration 

Marie L. Mallet-Garcia et Bani Gill Reflections on the Interplay between Race, Ethnicity, and Migration

Luisa Feline Freier et Matthew Bird Seeing «Race» through a Prism: Relational Socio-racial Hierarchies and Immigration

Carlos Vargas-Silva Quantitative modelling of race, ethnicity and migration issues

Marie L. Mallet-Garcia The Interplay of Race, Immigration Policy and Belonging for DACA recipients

Francesca Esposito Immigration Detention and the Coloniality of Gender

Michael Jones-Correa Reassessing Race and Ethnicity through a Migration Lens

Read more here: DOI 10.4000/mcv.14071

BOOK: Georg L.K.A. CHRIST & Franz-Julius MORCHE, eds., Cultures of Empire: Rethinking Venetian Rule 1400–1700. Essays in Honour of Benjamin Arbel (Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2020). ISBN: 978-90-04-42760-0, €149.00

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Series: The Medieval Mediterranean, Volume: 122

This book investigates perceptions, modes, and techniques of Venetian rule in the early modern Eastern Mediterranean (1400–1700). Against the backdrop of the controversial notion of the Venetian realm as a colonial empire, essays from a range of specialists examine how Venice negotiated control over the territories, resources, and traditions of different empires (Byzantine, Roman, Mamluk, Ottoman) while developing its own claims of authority. Focusing in particular on questions of belonging and status in the Venetian overseas territories, the volume incorporates observations on the daily realities of Venetian rule: how did Venice negotiate claims of authority in light of former and ongoing imperial belongings? What was the status of colonial subjects and ships in the metropolis and in foreign territories? In what ways did Venice accept and continue old forms of imperial belonging? Did subordinate entities join in a shared communal identity? The volume opens new perspectives on Venetian rule at the crossroads of empire and early modern statehood: a polity negotiating and entangling empire. 

Contributors are Housni Alkhateeb Shehada, Giacomo Corazzol, Nicholas Davidson, Renard Gluzman, Deborah Howard, David Jacoby (ZL), Marianna Kolyvà, Franz-Julius Morche, Reinhold C. Mueller, Monique O’Connell, Gerassimos D. Pagratis, Maria Pia Pedani (†), Dorit Raines, and E. Natalie Rothman.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Georg Christ, Ph.D. (2006), Universität Basel, Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Manchester. His research mainly focuses on the late medieval Eastern Mediterranean and Veneto-Mamluk trade and political relations. 

Franz-Julius Morche, Dr. phil. (2013), Universität Heidelberg, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study and the Department of History, Durham University. He was previously a member of the ERC research team “Communication and Empire: Chinese Empires in Comparative Perspective” at King’s College London and Leiden University.

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BOOK: Margarita TORREMOCHA HERNANDEZ & Alberto CORADA ALONSO, El estupro: delito, mujer y sociedad en el Antiguo Régimen (Valladolid, Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid, 2018). ISBN: 8484489892, pp. 314, 21 €

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Este trabajo sobre el estupro, es un intento de dar respuesta a una realidad muy frecuente en la sociedad de la Edad Moderna, aunque no por común menos compleja, que afectaba al matrimonio, al mercado matrimonial, a las posibilidades de tomar estado, etc. El estupro es un delito definido por dos coordenadas: engaño y mujer honrada y/o doncella honesta. Ambos parámetros fueron obligatorios en su concepción jurídica. A partir de ellos, en los tribunales, su tratamiento se fue ramificando a cuestiones en principio no intrínsecas, tales como la violencia, el incumplimiento de la palabra de matrimonio, el embarazo y la obligación subsiguiente de alimentos, etc. Las fuentes procesales contribuyen a través de los discursos de los agentes de la justicia a crear una imagen en la que la mujer era una víctima por engaño, a la cual se le puede resarcir. Así, el desequilibrio de las relaciones entre hombre y mujer se pone de manifiesto en los planteamientos que los jueces, abogados, fiscales e incluso testigos presentan para la resolución del conflicto, y nos sitúa en los múltiples escenarios del estupro, en Castilla, Aragón, Portugal e Italia.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Margarita Torremocha Hernández es catedrática de Historia Moderna en la Universidad de Valladolid. Entre sus líneas de investigación destacan la Historia social de la delincuencia; la Historia de la Universidad de Valladolid; la fiesta como expresión de poder; las fórmulas de sociabilidad del Antiguo Régimen y la mujer en las sociedades modernas.

Alberto Corada Alonso es investigador en el Departamento de Historia Moderna de la Universidad de Valladolid.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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