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- After studying history and musicology at the University Potsdam and the Humboldt University Berlin, I obtained an MA ... moreAfter studying history and musicology at the University Potsdam and the Humboldt University Berlin, I obtained an MA in Cultural and Intellectual History, 1300-1650 at the Warburg Institute London. I am currently undertaking studies for a PhD thesis entitled ‘The Reception of the Sibylline Oracles in the context of the Reformation’.edit
This article examines the ara coeli legend, a tale in which the Tiburtine Sibyl showed Emperor Augustus a vision of a virgin holding a child proclaiming the child’s greatness. Based on both texts and art works, mainly from the Holy Roman... more
This article examines the ara coeli legend, a tale in which the Tiburtine Sibyl showed Emperor Augustus a vision of a virgin holding a child proclaiming the child’s greatness. Based on both texts and art works, mainly from the Holy Roman Empire, it argues that the legend owed its widespread popularity to the way in which it was grafted onto the fifteenth-century Marian cult. While flourishing in coexistence with the humanist reconsideration of the Sibylline heritage, this incorporation into popular belief ultimately led to the legend’s decline during the Reformation, as reformers and later Catholic theologians revised Mary’s role in the unfolding of Christian salvation. In the face of Protestant and post-Tridentine theology, the ara coeli legend thus subsided into religious irrelevance, giving way to political, mythological, and gendered interests in the Sibyls.
‘Frenzied Sibyls and most venerable prophets. Sebastian Castellio’s struggle with the Biblical canon and the responses within the Reformation camp’, in: Inexcusabiles. The Debate on Salvation and the Virtues of the Pagans in the Early Modern Period (1595–1772), ed. by A. Frigo, Berlin 2020, 45–63more
The Warburg Insititute hosts its Second postgraduate symposium on Thursday 16 November 2017. This conference focuses on the role that individuals including philosophers, patrons and artists played in the cultural development of the Early... more
The Warburg Insititute hosts its Second postgraduate symposium on Thursday 16 November 2017. This conference focuses on the role that individuals including philosophers, patrons and artists played in the cultural development of the Early Modern Period.
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The Warburg Institute will host its first Postgraduate Symposium on 17 November 2016. It will explore the concept of cultural encounters and focus particularly on their productive outcomes. We are interested, above all, in the dynamics of... more
The Warburg Institute will host its first Postgraduate Symposium on 17 November 2016. It will explore the concept of cultural encounters and focus particularly on their productive outcomes. We are interested, above all, in the dynamics of cultural change across time and space. The Symposium will be multidisciplinary, and will cover topics that fall into the unique classification system of the Warburg Library: Image, Word, Orientation and Action. The aim of the Symposium will be to map the diverse and intricate forces which have driven cultural encounters in the past and which also help define contemporary societies. Amongst the questions that we hope to address are: the degree to which productive outcomes can be seen as a conscious reception and reformulation of external ideas and models; resistances to exchange and in what form; the long-term implications of such encounters and their outcomes. Proposals for papers should be sent to warburg.postgrad@gmail.com by 31 May 2016:
- Maximum 300-word abstract, in English, for a 20-minute paper, in PDF or Word format.
- One-page CV, including full name, affiliation, contact information.
- Maximum 300-word abstract, in English, for a 20-minute paper, in PDF or Word format.
- One-page CV, including full name, affiliation, contact information.
Research Interests: Intellectual History, Art History, Translation Studies, Medieval Literature, Architecture, and 14 moreMedieval History, Early Modern History, Literature, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Early Modern Europe, History of Religions, History of Art, Early Modern Intellectual History, Italian Renaissance Art, Early Modern Italy, Humanism, and Medieval Art
This thought provoking book deals with religious scholarship and important controversies of the early modern period, specifically those relating to the question of the salvation of the pagans and the afterlife. From the Reformation,... more
This thought provoking book deals with religious scholarship and important controversies of the early modern period, specifically those relating to the question of the salvation of the pagans and the afterlife. From the Reformation, through the Renaissance and on to the seventeenth and eighteenth century, this was a time when religious scholarship was updated with the discoveries of the New World and colonial expansion. These chapters present new work, shedding light on the interplay of philosophy and theology in key thinkers such as Montaigne, Leibniz, Bayle and Spinoza, but also in less known authors such as Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola and Sebastian Castellio.
Readers will discover analysis of the reshaping of specific theological issues, focussing on the reception of ancient philosophical traditions such as Platonism, Aristotelianism, Stoicism, Epicureanism, and scepticism. The authors investigate the relationship between the ethical models inspired by the heroes and philosophers of antiquity and the ‘new philosophy’. Above all, this book enables exploration of the ways in which discussions of the salvation and virtues of pagans intersected with the early modern reception of ancient philosophy, including a reassessment of the question of the moral status of unbelievers in the early modern period.
Students and faculty working on early modern intellectual history will find that this book both inspires and enriches their knowledge. Those with an interest in Renaissance humanism, the history of early modern philosophy and science, in theology, or the history of religion will also appreciate the new contributions that it makes.
Readers will discover analysis of the reshaping of specific theological issues, focussing on the reception of ancient philosophical traditions such as Platonism, Aristotelianism, Stoicism, Epicureanism, and scepticism. The authors investigate the relationship between the ethical models inspired by the heroes and philosophers of antiquity and the ‘new philosophy’. Above all, this book enables exploration of the ways in which discussions of the salvation and virtues of pagans intersected with the early modern reception of ancient philosophy, including a reassessment of the question of the moral status of unbelievers in the early modern period.
Students and faculty working on early modern intellectual history will find that this book both inspires and enriches their knowledge. Those with an interest in Renaissance humanism, the history of early modern philosophy and science, in theology, or the history of religion will also appreciate the new contributions that it makes.