Description
Images and texts praising a merciful Catholic Church and a triumphant Habsburg Empire propagated a (fictitious?) projection of harmonious reality. Views of ideal communities committed to sharing instrumental virtues clashed with potentially disruptive factors: a planetary empire, political enemies, religious Otherness, and competitive sovereignties. Whereas the social and moral models promoted were presented under the banner of concord and perfection, the promise of happiness and salvation entailed a forced and centralizing pacification of dissents and conflicts.
What images and books were favored to captivate souls, soothe disparities, and uplift consciences? What practices were applied to propose a sense of belonging and legitimize authority? This symposium analyzes how religious orders, political rulers, images, and books conceived and distributed views regarding society and morality throughout the Habsburg Monarchy and its spaces of allegiance and interference. What works united, consoled, or (dis)connected the Iberian worlds? What–in the proximity granted by a newly expanded circulation–was transformed, omitted, or over-emphasized, and why?
Schedule
All times below are local Italian time.
Tuesday, June 11
Sala Armi, Palazzo Malvezzi, via Zamboni 22
14:00 – 14:20
Welcome: Maria Vittoria Spissu, UNIBO; Irene Graziani, UNIBO; Lia Markey, Center for Renaissance Studies - The Newberry Library, Chicago
Introduction: Maria Vittoria Spissu, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow 2022-2025 EU-funded COMCON project, Università di Bologna
Session 1
Chair: Irene Graziani, Dipartimento delle Arti, Università di Bologna
14:20 – 14:40 Jessica Goethals, University of Alabama
What’s a Little Invasion between Friends? The Sack of Rome and its Aftermath
14:40 – 15:00 Marta Albalá Pelegrín, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Theater of Conquest: Staging Peace at War in Spanish Rome
15:00 – 15:20 Piers Baker-Bates, Open University
Iberian Ecclesiastics and the Political and Cultural Geographies of Early Modern Rome
15:20 – 15:40 Q&A
15:40 – 16:00 Break
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Session 2
Chair: Lia Markey, Center for Renaissance Studies - The Newberry Library, Chicago
16:00 – 16:20 Emily Monty, I Tatti | The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance / Museo Nacional del Prado
Starting from Scrap: A Roman History of Chile and the Material Politics of its Illustrations
16:20 – 16:40 Maria Elisa Navarro Morales, Trinity College Dublin
De Jerusalén al Escorial pasando por las Américas: arquitectura americana el en tratado de Caramuel
16:40 – 17:00 Javier Patiño Loira, University of California
The Taste of Discord: Comets, Music, and Politics in Early Seventeenth-Century Europe
17:00 – 17:20 Q&A
17:20 – 18:00 Keynote Lecture
Luisa Elena Alcalá, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Jesuit Procurators in the Iberian World: Authorized Circulation as Corporate Identity, or the Negotiation of Multiple Communities
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Wednesday, June 12
Sala Armi, Palazzo Malvezzi, via Zamboni 22
Session 3
Chair: Luisa Elena Alcalá, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
9:20 – 9:40
Fabien Montcher, Saint Louis University
Signboard, Skin, and Space: Streets Censorship in Mid-Seventeenth Century Lisbon
9:40 – 10:00
Lucía Querejazu Escobari, Universität Zürich
On Modelling Salvation of Andean Souls: Saving Pagan Ancestors and Constructing Local Saints
10:00 – 10:20 Katherine Mills, Harvard University
In the Place of a Rosary: Sister Rosa of Argote’s Demonic Envoltorio
10:20 – 10:40 Q&A
10:40 – 11:00 Break
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Session 4
Chair: Christopher Fletcher, Center for Renaissance Studies - The Newberry Library, Chicago
11:00 – 11:20 Daniela Caracciolo, Università del Salento
Immagini devote tra Santi e Viceré nel Viceregno spagnolo di Napoli
11:20 – 11:40 Nora Guggenbühler, Universität Zürich
Empire of the Virgin: The Role of Miraculous Images’ Copies in Connecting the Iberian world
11:40 – 12:00 Escardiel González Estévez, Universidad de Sevilla
“Convocaba al temor y a la venganza”: San Miguel, capitán de los ejércitos del rey en el imaginario andino
12:00 – 12:20 Q&A
12:20 – 12:40
Closing remarks: Maria Vittoria Spissu, UNIBO; Lia Markey, Center for Renaissance Studies - The Newberry Library, Chicago
Acknowledgements
This symposium forms part of the dissemination activities of the research project: “Communities of Concord: Building Contentment and Belonging through Emotional Images in Early Modern Europe and Beyond:” acronym COMCON. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101028785.
This event is part of a symposium series organized with the collaboration of the Center for Renaissance Studies of the Newberry Library in Chicago. The Newberry is the partner organization of the EU-funded COMCON project and has been the host institution of the outgoing phase of the MSCA.
The organizer thanks the Saint Louis University Center for Iberian Historical Studies for its support.
