16th century Europe

L'ufficio del giudice: mediazione, inquisizione, confessione nei processi matrimoniali veneziani, 1420-1532. In: Rivista Storica Italiana, 3, 2003, 851-898.

by Cecilia Cristellon

"Io voleva tuor quello che mio padre me daria". Autorità parentale e scelte matrimoniali dei figli: Venezia XV e XVI secolo, in: D. Lombardi, I. Fazio (ed.), Generazioni: legami di parentela tra passato e presente, Roma: Viella, 2006, 205-221.

by Cecilia Cristellon

I processi matrimoniali veneziani. In: Tribunali del matrimonio (secoli XV-XVIII), Hg. Seidel Menchi, S., Quaglioni, D. (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2006), 101-122.

by Cecilia Cristellon

Does the Priest Have to Be There? Contested Marriages Before Roman Tribunals. Italy, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 3, 2009, 10-30.

by Cecilia Cristellon

The Council of Trent established the requirements that a marriage be celebrated by the parish priest and two or more... more The Council of Trent established the requirements that a marriage be celebrated by the parish priest and two or more witnesses be present at the marriage (1563), but neglected to specify who the parish priest was. The decrees provoked confusion among both laymen and churchmen. Traces thereof can be found in the hitherto essentially unexplored documentation of The Congregation of the Council. This institution was founded in 1564 specifically to resolve the questions that arose all over the catholic world by the application of the decrees promulgated at Trent. The related records are held in the Vatican Secret Archive. Through an examination of this documentation, complemented by files of the Holy Office the author analyzes how the new rules were understood, experienced, used, circumvented, and manipulated both by laymen and churchmen in order to end an unwanted marriage, to facilitate a union that was socially transgressive, opposed by family, or even heterodox, and to respond to pastoral concerns.

Words or Gestures? Marriage Rituals in Renaissance Italy: Continuity and Change, 1400-1600, in: Regional Variations in Matrimonial Law and Custom in Europe, 1150- 1600, Ed. Korpiola, M. (Leiden: Brill, 2011), 275-287.

by Cecilia Cristellon

Co-authored with Silvana Seidel Menchi

Public Display of Affection: The Making of Marriage in the Venetian Courts before the Council of Trent (1420- 1545). In: The Erotic Cultures of Renaissance Italy, Hg. Matthews- Grieco, S. (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010), 173-197.

by Cecilia Cristellon

Marriage and Consent in Pretridentine Venice: Between Lay Conception and Ecclesiastical Conception, 1420-1545. In: The Sixteenth Century Journal, 39, 2008, 389-418.

by Cecilia Cristellon

The main sources of this article are 750 matrimonial trials discussed before the ecclesiastical court in Venice... more The main sources of this article are 750 matrimonial trials discussed before the ecclesiastical court in Venice (1420-1545). This article analyzes the differing conceptions of marriage held by the laity and by the ecclesiastical hierarchy as these ideas were expressed in a dialectical relationship in court. Central to this analysis is the concept of consent, since consent, with widely differing interpretations, formed the foundation and the essence of both canonical and lay customary marriage. In the pre-Tridentine ecclesiastical court, custom played a leading role in deciding matters related to the marriage bond. These sources allow access to aspects of marriage that are usually not recorded and make it possible to reevaluate social phenomena which have been defined from a post-Tridentine perspective as transgressive. Practices such as bigamy, concubinage, and stuprum appear not as deviant, but as part of socially accepted marital behavior that is much broader and more heterogeneous than historians have appreciated.

The Remarkable Role of Women in 16th Century French Basque Law Codes

by Roslyn Frank

This file consists of three lightly revised versions of papers published originally in 1977, along with responses to them by Rachel Bard, Tacoma Community College, Jon Bilbao, University of Nevada, Reno, and Eugene Goyheneche, Université de Pau (France), respectively. The text includes an Appendix with a transcription of the “Doléances du sexes de st. Jean de luz et cibour au roi”, dating from 1789 and which originally appeared in print in 1922.

Paper # 1. The role of the Basque woman and Etxeko-andrea: “The mistress of the house”. Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, Vol. IV, 14-21. Santa Barbara, California, 1977.

Paper # 2. Inheritance, marriage and dowry rights in the Navarrese and French Basque law codes, Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, Vol. IV, 22-31. Santa Barbara, California;

Paper #3. Women's rights and the 'Doléances du Sexe de St. Jean de Luz et Cibour au Roi', Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, Vol. IV, 32-39. Santa Barbara, California.

 “Hendrick Goltzius y Bartholomeo Spranger. Interpretaciones y lecturas de un proverbio latino”

by Pilar Diez del Corral Corredoira

forthcoming

Liberty, tyranny and idolatry in the work of Fulke Greville

by Freya Sierhuis

Modern Language Review, 106.3 (2011)

For the Defense of the Faith? The Crusading Indulgence in Early Modern Spain

by Patrick O'Banion

published in Archive for Reformation History/Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 101 (2010).

Entgegen gängiger Forschungsmeinungen, die die frühneuzeitliche Kreuzzugslehre als verknöchert und fade... more Entgegen gängiger Forschungsmeinungen, die die frühneuzeitliche Kreuzzugslehre als verknöchert und fade abqualifizieren, lässt sich in Spanien zwischen 1500 und 1800 eine bemerkenswerte Verbreitung des Kreuzzugsablasses bula de la cruzada feststellen, den jährlich Millionen Menschen aus allen gesellschaftlichen Gruppen erwarben. Sie erhielten damit ein breites Spektrum von Buß- und Fastenvergünstigungen. Nicht der Kreuzzug, sondern diese Privilegien bildeten für das Publikum eine Hauptattraktion und standen im Fokus der cruzada-Predigten. Dabei unterminierte die schiere Verbrei- tung der Kreuzzugsindulgenzen auf dramatische Weise Versuche von bischöflicher Sei- te, das religiöse Verhalten der Gläubigen zu regulieren.

Negotiating penance: Sacramental Confession and Religious Life in Early Modern Spain

by Patrick O'Banion

"A Priest Who Appears Good": Manuals of Confession and the Construction of Clerical Identity in Early Modern Spain

by Patrick O'Banion

published in Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgescheidenis/ Dutch Review of Church History 85 (2005).

The pastoral use of the book of revelation in Late Tudor England

by Patrick O'Banion

published in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 57 (2006).

Over the past forty years historians have demonstrated continued interest in tracing the development of radical early... more Over the past forty years historians have demonstrated continued interest in tracing the development of radical early modern English apocalypticism. The Tudor and Stuart eschatological scene, however, encompassed more than just millenarian activism. This article emphasises the pastoral ends to which Revelation was used by a group of late sixteenth-century writers as they sought to make it accessible to the ‘common sort’ of Christian. Viewing interest in the Last Days through this pastoral lens highlights both the tense complexities present in the Elizabethan Church and the usefulness of eschatological themes in studying ordinary and normative aspects of religious experience.

"Las Mujeres En El Siglo De Las Reformas Religiosas", dans José Fernández Ubiña et Manuel Sotomayor Muro (coord.), Historia del cristianismo, Vol. 3, El mundo moderno coord. Antonio Luis Cortés Peña, Barcelone, Trotta Ediciones, 2006, p. 509 - 550.

by Isabelle Poutrin

El estudio de las relaciones entre las mujeres y la religión en la época moderna se encuadra en el marco de las... more El estudio de las relaciones entre las mujeres y la religión en la época moderna se encuadra en el marco de las reformas religiosas, y en particular, de los debates teológicos que tuvieron un impacto sobre la condición de las mujeres.
De los conflictos teológicos sobre el carácter sacramental del matrimonio, se siguieron cambios de legislación que afectaron directamente a las mujeres.
En segundo lugar, los reformadores protestantes rechazaron la validez de la vida consagrada mientras, en la Iglesia católica, se reafirmo afirmar su valor y se procedió a la reorganización de la vida conventual. En ambas confesiones, las consecuencias para las monjas fueron dramáticas.
Los debates eclesiológicos plantearon el problema del gobierno y del poder. ¿Era aceptable la participación de las mujeres en la dirección de la Iglesia ? ¿ Que tipo de poder se podía conceder a las mujeres ?
En fin, las evoluciones de la teología mística y los debates internos a la Iglesia católica sobre la gracia y la libertad humana, abrieron más ampliamente a las mujeres el campo de la santidad carismática. ¿ Que legitimidad se debía atribuir a estas experiencias ? En todas estas materias, los debates teóricos conllevaron importantes cambios para las mujeres. El estudio se apoya en ejemplos tomados en Alemana, Inglaterra, Espana, Francia e Italia.
Palabras-claves: mujeres, Iglesia católica, Reforma, matrimonio, conventos, santidad, poder, reinas.

Contenido :
1. En los lazos del matrimonio
Las normas canónicas del matrimonio cristiano.
La desacralización del matrimonio.
El matrimonio entre Iglesia y Estado.
La santidad en el matrimonio.
Los compromisos religiosos de las princesas y reinas.
2. Las esposas de Cristo
Los conventos de mujeres en vísperas de las reformas.
El cierre de los conventos en los países protestantes.
Normas y límites de la reforma conventual.
La clausura, ¿medio de humillación o escuela de humildad ?
3. En las filas de la Iglesia militante
Regir la Iglesia: las reinas.
Gobernar en la Iglesia: las superioras.
Éxitos y peligros de la santidad carismática.