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PROPEL · Prophecy, Public Sphere and Emotions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Tuscany: From Dante to Savonarola

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2020-09-01 → 2023-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 251 003 €
Участници: 2
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Пророчествата в Тоскана между Данте и Савонарола се анализират чрез текстове и ръкописи от XIV и XV век. Те помагат да се разбере как предсказанията за бъдещето са влияели върху политическия и религиозния ред в Европа.

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Резултати накратко

Prophecy, Public Sphere and Emotions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Tuscany: From Dante to Savonarola

The study of prediction about the future, as an expression of collective and recurring concerns, is a significant contribution to the understanding of every age. In late medieval and Renaissance Europe, prophetic discourse was one of the most incisive means for proposing or opposing alternative models of political and religious order. Over the last decades scholars highlighted Florence as being a focal point for the diffusion of short prophecies, but the large number of the prophecies circulating in Tuscany in the 14th and 15th centuries lack a comprehensive study. PROPEL offers the first comprehensive analysis of these prophetic texts and of the manuscripts which transmitted them. Why were there so many prophecies in Tuscany? In which way were they read? Why did people believe or not believe in prophecies? Because of the outstanding quality and variety of the documentation, late medieval and Renaissance Tuscany offers a perfect starting point of such a comprehensive study. Florence was then one of the principal economic powers in Europe, and enjoyed a very high literacy rate, among both males and females. Two key figures provide the chronological horizon of PROPEL: Dante Alighieri (d. 1321), before whom there are almost no prophetic sources in Tuscany, and Girolamo Savonarola (d. 1498), after whom the political and religious situation completely changed. In these two centuries, great authors such as Petrarch and Machiavelli were dealing with prophetic issues, and prophecies either preceded or followed major events such as the Ciompi Revolt (1378) and the rise to power of the Medici family (1434). PROPEL investigates this complex history pursuing three overall objectives: (1) to adopt a new method for the study of prophetic texts, thoroughly investigating the material contexts, the diachronic transmission and the formal features of late medieval prophecies; (2) to propose a fresh interpretation of Tuscan prophetic discourse as having a performative nature (a prophecy does not simply predict the future: it creates the future); (3) to identify and analyze the emotions at the heart of the public sphere created by prophetic texts, such as fear and hope, and underlies the complex relation between prophecy, emotions and violence.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

In medieval and Renaissance Europe, prophetic discourse was one of the most incisive means for proposing or opposing alternative models of political and religious order. A large number of short prophecies circulated at that time throughout the continent, which have never received a thorough analysis. Because of the outstanding quality and variety of the documentation, Florence and Tuscany offer a perfect starting point. PROPEL will be the first systematic investigation of the circulation of prophetic texts (direct or reported), from all over Europe, in the Tuscan cities, bearing in mind two key figures as chronological limits: Dante Alighieri (d. 1321) and Girolamo Savonarola (d. 1498). The aim of the project is to analyze the entire corpus of prophecies (in Latin or in vernacular, in prose or in verse), which is transmitted by a great variety of manuscripts (flyleaves, fliers, miscellanies) or included in larger texts (chronicles, sermons, encyclopedic works). This philological challenge will be the premise for a new and comprehensive interpretation of prophetic discourse as having a performative nature. In this perspective, the public sphere can be considered the lively theater in which civic identity was at the same time represented and created by prophecies: that is to say, texts which put into play not only ideas, but also strong emotions such as love and hate, hope and fear. The project proposes an unprecedented dialogue between material philology, media studies and history of emotions. This interdisciplinary perspective will change the way in which late medieval and Renaissance prophecy is perceived in available scholarship. Moreover, by reflecting on the ways one-sided information shapes collective identities and future-oriented emotions influence the public sphere, PROPEL will develop a dialogue with journalists and politicians in order to deconstruct and dismantle the intensifying rhetoric of religious extremism, xenophobic nationalism and media violence.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA · VeneziaКоординаторИталия
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · CHICAGO ILLINOISСъединени щати