Medieval and Early Modern religious histories: perspectives from Europe and Japan

The seminar will consist of two days of historiographical updating on religious history in the medieval and early modern ages in dialogue with scholars belonging to the network “Pluralistic aspects of medieval and early modern Christianity: towards a new global history from the viewpoint of religious coexistences" (Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences). The topics addressed will be religious identity, the interweaving between power and faith, and the encounter with the ‘other’.

Programme: 

25 November

9.30

Welcome and Introduction Takashi Jinno (Waseda University, Tokyo) Fernanda Alfieri (FBK-ISIG, Trento).

Session I: Theories
Chair: Massimo Rospocher
Debora Tonelli (Trento): From Divine to Religious Violence. A Retrospective Glance.
Vincenzo Lavenia (Roma): The Origins of Terrorism? Holy Scripture, Theology and Violence.
Serena Ferente (London): “Nothing Violent Can Last”: Nature, Violence and Political Legitimacy in a Scholastic Formula.
Fernanda Alfieri (Trento): Violentia and the Devil. Explorations in Early Modern Treatises for Exorcists and Confessors.

15.00

Session II: Violence against the Other, Violence against the Self
Chair: Fernanda Alfieri
Takashi Jinno (Waseda University): Jesuit Political Thought and Condemnation of Tyranny: The Doctrine of Tyrannicide of Juan de Mariana and its Medieval Origins.
Kazuhisa Takeda (Meiji University): Jesuit Spiritual Conquest in Colonial Spanish America: A Joint Military-Missionary Expedition against the “Unfaithful” Indians.
Giovanni Ciappelli (Trento): Privateering for Religion in the 17th Century. The War of Tuscan Galleys against Turks in News Pamphlets Ken’ichi Nejime (Gakushuin Women’s College, Tokyo): Violence and Suicide in History.
Taku Minagawa (Yamanashi University): "Rediscovery" of Martyrdom. Social Background of a "Violent" Self-discipline in the Age of Carlo Spinola S.J. (1564-1622).

26 November

9.00

Session III: Institutionalized Violence
Chair: Takashi Jinno
Massimo Rospocher (Trento): Henry VIII’s Holy War: Justifying Violence Against Christians.
Atsuko Hirayama (Tezukayama University): The Jesuit Missiology for Japan and China in the 16th and 17th Centuries: Were Militant Methods Ruled Out?
Benedetta Albani (Frankfurt am Main): Imposition or Appropriation? The Congregation of the Council and the Diffusion of the Tridentinum in the World.
Federico Barbierato (Verona): Torture and the Legitimacy of Violence in the Practice of the Venetian Inquisition between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.

Final discussion

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