Wednesday 15.11 (Deutsches Historisches Institut)
13:30-14:00 Welcome
Welcome Martin Baumeister (Roma)
Introduction Andreea Badea (Roma)
14:00-15:30
The Pitfalls of Doctrine (1) – Chair: Paolo Broggio (Roma)
1. Rudolf Schüssler (Bayreuth)
Conflicting Truth Claims - Scholastic Approaches to Reasonable Disagreement
2. Maria Pia Donato (Paris/Cagliari)
Truth and Evidence, Truth and Authority: Who Speaks of What and Why in the late 17th-Century Debate on Atoms vs Matter and Form and Other Aristotelian Relics
Coffee 15:30-16:00
16:00-17:30
The Pitfalls of Doctrine(2) - Chair: Paolo Broggio (Roma)
3. Leen Spruit (Nijmegen)
Modern philosophy and ancient heresies: new wine in old bottles?
4. Bruno Boute (Frankfurt am Main)
The Uncertainties of Salvation. Roman Censorship and the Sacrament of Penance.
18:00-20:00 Keynote:
5. Rivka Feldhay (Tel Aviv)
Disciplining the Sciences in Conflict Zones
20:00 Reception
Thursday 16.11. (Academia Belgica)
Coffee 9:00-9:15
9:15-10:45
Wandering into Distant Realms: Fact-Finding in History and Geography – Chair: Stefano Zen (Napoli)
6. Andreea Badea (Roma)
Defining Past and Present – Hagiographical Debates and Historical Criticism in 17th Century Rome
7. Jan Machielsen (Cardiff)
Putting Martyrs on Trial Again: The Congregation of Rites, the Scrutiny of Evidence and the Martyrs of Gorcum, 1572-1675
Coffee 10:45-11:15
11:15-12:45
The Assurances of Legal and Administrative Practice (1) – Chair: Stefano Zen (Napoli)
8. Markus Friedrich (Hamburg)
Genealogical Truth between Archives and Administration
9. Birgit Emich (Frankfurt am Main)
Making Truth, Making Saints: Procedures, Credibility and Patronage in Earl Modern Canonization
Lunch 12:45-13:45
13:45-15:15
The Assurances of Legal and Administrative Practice (2) - Chair: Irene Fosi (Chieti)
10. Paolo Quattrone (Edinburgh)
In Search of Value: Mystery and Accounting Practices in the Jesuit Order
11. Vittoria Fiorelli (Napoli)
L’esperienze non sono fedeli scorte a portarci alla cognizione della verità”. Giacinto De Cristofaro and the Trial against Atheists.
Coffee 15:15-15:45
15:45-18:00
The Assurances of Legal and Administrative Practice (3) - Chair: Irene Fosi (Chieti)
12. Marco Cavarzere (Frankfurt am Main)
Plural Truths: Casuistry and the Interpretation of Moral Law
13. Cecila Cristellon (Frankfurt am Main)
Choosing Information, Selecting Truth. The Roman Inquisition and the Construction of Normativity of Religious Pluralism
Friday 17.11. (Deutsches Historisches Institut)
9:30-11:45
The Senses Deluded. Exploring the Nature of Things – Chair: Ugo Baldini (Roma)
14. Koen Vermeir (Paris)
Translating truth: tracing scientific metaphors in religious contexts
15. Steven Vanden Broecke (Gent)
How (not) to be a Catholic Copernican after 1616: evidence from the Low Countries
Lunch 11:45-12:45
12:45-14:15
Healing the Soul, Healing the Body: Religion and Medicine – Chair: Fernanda Alfieri (Trento)
16. Jetze Touber (Utrecht)
Medicina Sacra in Post-Tridentine Catholicism
17. Brendan Röder (München)
Judging by Appearance. 'True' Knowledge of Clerical Bodies in the Catholic Church (ca. 1700)
14:15-15:15 Conclusions and discussion – Steven Vanden Broecke (Gent)