Anne Jacobson Schutte, Thomas Kuehn, and Silvana Seidel Menchi, eds. Time, Space, and Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe. (Sixteenth-Century Essays and Studies, 57.) Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2001. xviii + 336 pp. index, illus. $34.95. ISBN: 0-943549-90-6.

2003 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 214-216
Author(s):  
Joanne M. Ferraro
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
State University ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Modern Europe

AUTHORITY AND POWER IN EARLY MODERN ITALY: RECENT ITALIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY Fonti ecclesiastiche per la storia sociale e religiosa d'Europa: XV–XVIII secolo. Edited by Cecilia Nubola and Angelo Turchini. Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino, Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento, 50, 1999. Pp. 563. ISBN 88-15-07070-2. Benandanti e inquisitori nel Friuli del Seicento. By Franco Nardon. Foreword by Andrea Del Col. Trieste: Editioni Università di Trieste, 1999. Pp. 254. ISBN 88-8303-022-2. Tempi e spazi di vita femminile tra medioevo ed età moderna. Edited by Silvana Seidel Menchi, Anne Jacobson Schutte, and Thomans Kuehn. Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino, Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento, 51, 1999. Pp. 577. ISBN 88-15-07234-9. Partial translation: Time, space, and women's lives in early modern Europe. Kirksville, MS: Truman State University Press, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, no. 57, 2001. Pp. 336. ISBN 0-943549-82-5 (hb). ISBN 0-943549-90-6 (pb). Church, censorship and culture in early modern Italy. Edited by Gigliola Fragnito. Translated by Adrian Belton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 264. ISBN 0-521-66172-2. Court and politics in papal Rome, 1492–1700. Edited by Gianvittorio Signorotto and Maria Antonietta Visceglia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 257. ISBN 0-521-64146-2.

2004 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 501-510
Author(s):  
MOSHE SLUHOVSKY
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
State University ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Early Modern Italy ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Innovative Work

The five books under review represent some of the recent achievements of Italian historiography of the early modern period. The gradual opening of Inquisitional archives in the 1990s and the growing sophistication of historical analysis of Inquisitorial documents have expanded dramatically our knowledge of and familiarity with the institutional and legal histories of the Inquisition and of the operation of justice in the Italian peninsula. One result of this is that the earlier and innovative work of Carlo Ginzburg in Inquisitorial archives has come under scrutiny. The books under review present a new view of the functioning of the Italian Inquisition, and by so doing shed new light on issues of authority and power in early modern Italy. Implicitly, the books under review also posit themselves against microstoria and address the larger working of power over long periods of time.

Time, Space and Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe

2002 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 1206
Author(s):  
Shawndra L. Holderby ◽  
Anne Jacobson Schutte ◽  
Thomas Kuehn ◽  
Silvana Seidel Menchi
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Modern Europe

scholarly journals ‘ACCEPTABLE TRUTHS’ DURING THE FRENCH RELIGIOUS WARS

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 55-75
Author(s):  
Penny Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Religious Truth ◽  
Religious Wars ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
Intense Debate

AbstractThis paper seeks to provide some historical perspective on contemporary preoccupations with competing versions of the truth. Truth has always been contested and subject to scrutiny, particularly during troubled times. It can take many forms – judicial truth, religious truth, personal truth – and is bound up with the context of time and place. This paper sets out the multidisciplinary approaches to truth and examines its role in a specific context, that of early modern Europe and, in particular, the French religious wars of the sixteenth century. Truth was a subject of intense debate among both Renaissance and Reformation scholars, it was upheld as an absolute by judges, theologians and rulers. Yet, it also needed to be concealed by those who maintained a different truth to that of the authorities. In the case of France, in order to advance their cause, the Huguenots used subterfuge of various kinds, including the illicit carrying of messages. In this instance, truth was dependent on the integrity of its carrier, whether the messenger could be trusted and, therefore, their truth accepted. Both sides also sought to defend the truth by countering what they presented as the deceit of their opponents. Then, as now, acceptance of what is true depends on which side we are on and who we are prepared to believe.

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