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• 30 jui 2017

  01 jui 2017

  Poitiers

  Conference, symposium - History

  Urban monasticism: 300-1300

  Christianity emerged as an urban phenomenon, yet monasticism is more often than not presented as an escape from the sinful town into the wilderness, and as more concerned with the soul than with the body. Ascetics, however, have always had a vested interest in the city, and not only symbolically. Monasticism has been an important urban presence since Late Antiquity up to the Late Middle Ages, even if they were sometimes in competition with newer religious orders.

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• 28 fév 2017

  Rome

  Call for papers - Religion

  Lived religion and everyday life through early modern catholic hagiographic material

  We invite abstracts for contributions on the subject from scholars working with early modern (ca. 15th–18th centuries) hagiographic material, such as beatification and canonisation processes, other miracle accounts, art, vitae, and other spiritual (auto)biographies. The aim is to produce a high-quality collection of articles, which offers cutting-edge and fruitful insights into early modern social and cultural history, using hagiographic texts and art as sources. We especially welcome contributions, which have a sensitive approach to gender, age, health and social status.

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• 01 mar 2017

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  The ghettos of Italy in the 17th century

  XVIIe siècle journal

  L’histoire des ghettos juifs d’Italie a débuté à Venise il y a tout juste cinq siècles, en 1516. S’inspirant du modèle vénitien, les papes qui se succèdent à partir de la seconde moitié du XVI^e siècle mettent en œuvre une politique ségrégationniste à l’encontre des juifs, érigée en modèle à suivre pour les autres États de la péninsule italienne. Le modèle romain du ghetto, qui naît en 1555 avec la bulle Cum Nimis Absurdum, se détache néanmoins du prototype vénitien par sa dimension conversionniste, qui apparaît comme centrale. Ce numéro thématique devra donc combler un vide historiographique et proposer un éclairage nouveau sur le phénomène de ghettoïsation et sur les conditions de sa généralisation dans un certain nombre de territoires de la péninsule italienne.

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