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Dec 30
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The ‘Sangalli Institute Award for the Religious History 2020’: the merit ranking

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The merit ranking of the ‘Sangalli Institute Award for the Religious History 2020’ (two winners)

  1. Jean Sénié (first award)
  2. Hugo Martins (second award)
  3. Flavia Tudini
  4. Marta Quatrale
  5. Daniel Toti
  6. Federica Fiorini – Vincenzo Tedesco
  7. Francesca Valentina Diana
  8. Azeta Kola – Davi Chang Ribeiro Lin
  9. Miriam Benfatto
  10. Anita Agostini – Andrea Arcuri – Maria Elena Cuenca Rodríguez – Milosav Đjoković

The Committee has judged worth of serious attention all the applications. The selection was managed by asking a detailed referee to the members of the Committee specialist in every single scientific areas. Then, the Committee has fulfilled a second turn of selection, compiling the above quoted merit ranking, gathering together the essays which were comparable for quality and coherence.

May 21
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A escola do diabo

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The book is about the work done by the Italian Capuchins dealing with the American alterity, especially with the catechization of the indios and the mestizos, accused of having relations with the devil. The friars had to update their missionary methods, facing an alleged indigenous resistance to Christianity and to European social rules. Portuguese colonial sources describe evangelization as a field of dispute among friars, natives and settlers, giving news about the daily conflicts and the changes both in social and symbolic traditions and the management of the missions. The indigenous people were not at all passive subjects in the process of evangelization, because they opposed missionaries for the determination with which, presumably, they practiced their costumes and “gentile” rituals. The documentation contains important information for the study of indigenous people in contact with the Capuchins in the Portuguese colonies of South America.

Carlos Henrique Cruz

A escola do diabo

Firenze University Press, Firenze 2019

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Apr 22
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Translatio Sanctitatis

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The book aims to analyze the hagiographic tradition of the thefts of relics in medieval Italy.
Since the theme of ‘furta sacra’ claims a consolidated historiographical tradition, it was decided to focus on texts and contexts that have not always received due attention in order to enhance its characteristics and affinities.
The heart of the book is concerning the analysis of the furtive translationes, hagiographical tales narrating the transfer of relics from one place to another following a theft. Through the study of historical contexts, narrative dynamics, literary themes and anthropological aspects, the book has tried to focus attention on the richness and complexity of the phenomenon over the centuries, outlining the history of a specific aspect of the cult of saints and relics, which is also history of the medieval culture and the medieval religious imagery.

Marco Papasidero

Translatio Sanctitatis

Firenze University Press, Firenze 2019

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