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Dai privilegi all’uguaglianza, andata e ritorno. Le «Università israelitiche» toscane e l’effimera emancipazione quarantottesca (1847-1852)
No full textThis article tries to retrace and analyse the role played by the governing bodies of the Tuscan Jewish communities, called the Tuscan Università israelitiche, and by their leaders, in order to promote, obtain and later defend the cause of Jewish emancipation in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. After an overview of the scattered journalistic debate in favour of Jewish emancipation, which took place in Tuscany in the second half of 1847, the article studies the various initiatives and attitudes taken by the Università israelitiche of Livorno and Florence in the crucial 1847-48 period, exploiting mainly the quite completely unexplored documents of the Tuscan Jewish community archives. In this way, a lively picture is obtained of contrasts and rivalries within and among the Jewish communities, of generational criticism against Jewish governmental organs, of conflicting interests. From archivistic documents, a latent tension also emerges between the strongly desired emancipation and the privileged condition of the past, which offers us the image of a Tuscan Jewry not fully unanimous and compact on the difficult road to emancipation
Political mobilizations of ecstatic experiences in late nineteenth-century Catholic France: the case of Doctor Antoine Imbert-Gourbeyre and his “Stigmatisées” (1868-73)
Full text linkThis article explores how intransigent Catholics used ecstatic experiences, in particular ecstatic prophetism, in late nineteenth-century France. The main protagonist of the events related here is Antoine Imbert-Gourbeyre, physician, intransigent Catholic and monarchical legitimist. From the 1870s, he started a widespread public campaign to scientifically defend the supernatural against anticlerical and rationalist criticism. In the precarious situation following the proclamation of the French Third Republic and the Paris Commune, Imbert’s struggle for the supernatural merged with Catholic legitimists’ hopes for Bourbon monarchical restoration and for a general socio-political regeneration culminating in the return to a medieval societas christiana. In this context, pro-monarchist political prophecies revealed by some ecstatic and stigmatic women were exploited to foster popular mass mobilization. Imbert worked actively to encourage, broadcast and scientifically legitimize these prophecies, instrumentalizing ecstatic experiences and subordinating their spiritual dimension to political purposes
E. Lamberts, "La lotta con il Leviatano. Percorsi di un ordine politico conservatore in Europa (1815-1965)", Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2016
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Riformare ma non troppo. La Repubblica di Venezia e le feste religiose nel Settecento
No full textIn the second half of the 18th century the problem of too many religious holidays seemed to haunt governments and reformers throughout most of Italy, who tried in every way to reduce them in order to improve the efficiency of their economies. Even in Venice the question was discussed since the late 1740s, but it took several decades, many debates and failed attempts and a long struggle with Rome, before a drastic reform of the religious calendar could be enacted (1787). This article aims to reconstruct this complex affair, replacing it in the political-religious climate of Italy at the time, investigating the reasons of those who supported or criticized the reduction of holidays, and the multiple causes that made this reform so complicated in the territories of the Serenissima
Les catholiques français face aux crises politiques de la mi-XIXe siècle (1848-1851)
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S. Scholl, "En quête d’une modernité religieuse. La création de l’Eglise catholique-chrétienne de Genève au cœur du Kulturkampf (1870-1907)", Neuchâtel, Éditions Alphile, 2014
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