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The Scholar, the Jurist, the Priest: Moderation on the Italian Peninsula, 1700-1750

Projektbeschreibung

Die Mäßigung im Italien des 18. Jahrhunderts

Laut den Beobachtungen des antiken griechischen Dichters Hesiod ist Mäßigung das Maß aller Dinge. Tausende Jahre später wurde unser Verständnis von Mäßigung durch die Fusion klassischer und christlicher Konzepte in einer intellektuell-religiösen und politisch-ökonomischen Umgebung geformt. Angesichts der zunehmenden Tendenzen zu Extremismus und Radikalisierung in Europa befindet sich das Konzept in einer Krise. Das EU-finanzierte Projekt VIAMEDIAITALICA ermöglicht eine historische Studie der gemäßigten Bevölkerungsschichten auf der italienischen Halbinsel im Zeitalter der Aufklärung. Die Mäßigung wird als Praxis und Tugend im politischen, wissenschaftlichen, epistemischen und religiösen Kontexten ergründet. Das Projekt erforscht dies anhand von Fallstudien, die auf Archivrecherchen zu wichtigen Texten, Einrichtungen und Denkern wie Lodovico Antonio Muratori, ein Theoretiker der Mäßigung, basieren.

Ziel

As Europe enters the third decade of the 21st Century, moderation is a concept in crisis. Extremism, radicalism and ideological conflict are judged to be in the ascendant, while the moderate middle of political landscapes in a range of European countries has been physically vacated and conceptually hollowed out. This project offers a contribution to the history of moderation as an idea, as a practice, and as a virtue. Modern understandings of moderation were established in the 18th Century, through the fusing of classical and Christian concepts in a new intellectual-religious and political-economic environment. VIA MEDIA ITALICA offers an intellectual historical study of the moderate strata on the Italian peninsula in the first half of the 18th Century, the early Enlightenment. The ambition is to establish moderation as a practice and as a virtue in three different contexts: political moderation; scholarly, or epistemic, moderation; and religious moderation. Each of these contexts will be explored through a networked set of case-studies, founded upon extensive archival research, and orientated around key texts, institutions and thinkers. These three contexts will also be elaborated through a study of Lodovico Antonio Muratori as a religious, scholarly and political thinker, and reinterpreted as a theorist of moderation. This project will offer: a ‘bottom-up’ reinterpretation of the intellectual culture of the Italian peninsula between 1700 and 1750; a new reading of the contributions of L.A. Muratori to the European Enlightenment; and an interrogation of the concept of moderation as a historical and contemporary idea and practice. This project plays an essential role in the researcher’s maturation into an international, independent and interdisciplinary historian of early modern Europe. It also supports his development into a public-facing scholar, through a range of training schemes and the realisation of an extensive programme of public-orientated events.

Koordinator

UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Netto-EU-Beitrag
€ 224 933,76
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KINGS GATE
NE1 7RU Newcastle Upon Tyne
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Region
North East (England) Northumberland and Tyne and Wear Tyneside
Aktivitätstyp
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Gesamtkosten
€ 224 933,76