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Site of Resistance: The Popular Piety of Santa Maria delle Carceri in Prato
Shannon Gilmore University of California, Santa Barbara This summer I enjoyed a month-long sojourn in Florence to expand my dissertation project on Central Italian miraculous image cults established...
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Pope Francis, the Year of Mercy and Vatican II
Max Vodola Catholic Theological College, Melbourne Recently Pope Francis announced a Year of Mercy for the Catholic Church commencing on 8 December 2015, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, and...
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Catholicism and politics after the DC
The latest issue of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies (vol.21, 3, 2016) has a set of articles on the nature of contemporary Catholicism and its relations to politics in Italy today. Did the...
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Kaha Mohamed Aden ACIS Dopo gli anni Novanta del secolo scorso il guntiino, il vestito molto colorito delle donne somale che lasciava il collo e le spalle scoperte, è scomparso, rimpiazzato dal...
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Jen McFarland, enrolled in a History MA at the University of Melbourne, spent September to December 2019 in Venice as an ACIS Save Venice Fellow researching the identity, status and activities of the...
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Catherine Kovesi University of Melbourne Throughout most of the westernised world we have just celebrated the festival of Halloween. Each year many protest the intrusion of what they see as an...
View ArticleLa festa del Panettone riciclato
Edda Orlandi Università degli Studi di Milano Il 3 febbraio, San Biagio, si celebra in Lombardia la Festa del Panettone avanzato. Giorno successivo alla Candelora (“Madona de la Candelora, de...
View ArticleBurning emotions: Giovanni Tarantino at the Museo Italiano, Thursday 25...
For about ten years now there has been talk of history having taken an “emotional turn”. If the scholars of the Annales School were aiming to write history from the bottom up, the historians of...
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Chiara Ottaviano Cliomedia Officina (Torino) Carmelo Campanella è nato a Ragusa nel 1931 e ha vissuto fino a pochi anni fa in campagna allevando bovini. In tarda età ha scoperto di essere custode di...
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Clodagh Brook’s latest work, Screening Religions in Italy (2019), tackles a little-explored area: the role of Catholicism (but also of other religions) in the organisation, production and distribution...
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