Rethinking Mary in Early Modern Italy: Men's and Women's perspectives on the Virgin Mary (1450-1650)

Project description

The Virgin Mary as a role model

What is the cultural role of literary representations of the Virgin Mary? How has this shaped women's identity in Early Modern Italy? The EU-funded RethinkingMary project will find the answers. It will study and evaluate a corpus of printed and manuscript literary works on the Virgin Mary produced by Italian men and women between 1450 and 1650, a central period for the making of Italian and European modernity. RethinkingMary will deliver the first comprehensive study on the subject, produce a bibliographical database and question the idea that the Virgin Mary is a passive and submissive role model for women, considering that religious women writers used her as a powerful model of womanhood.

Fields of science

• social sciences › sociology › gender studies
• humanities › history and archaeology › history › modern history
• humanities › philosophy, ethics and religion › religions › christianity
• humanities › other humanities › library sciences › knowledge organization
• humanities › arts › art history
• humanities › other humanities › library sciences › digital humanities

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility

Topic(s)

• MSCA-IF-2020 - Individual Fellowships

Call for proposal

H2020-MSCA-IF-2020

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Funding Scheme

MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF

Coordinator

UNIVERSITETET I OSLO

Net EU contribution

€ 214 158,72

Address

Problemveien 5-7
0313 Oslo
Norway

Region

Norge › Oslo og Viken › Oslo

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

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Other funding

€ 0,00