H2020Индивидуална стипендия2021–2025

WomenThinkingLove · A Gendered History of Emotions in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy

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

Период: 2021-09-01 → 2025-07-07
Финансиране от ЕС: 252 573 €
Участници: 2
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Представянията за любовта при италианските жени между 1500 и 1650 г. се анализират чрез техните лични текстове и литература. Работата помага да се разбере как емоциите и ролите на genders се формират от обществото, а не са само вродени.

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Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

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A Gendered History of Emotions in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy

"Women Thinking Love" delves into the profound transformations in the way Early-Modern Italian women conceived and engaged with the concept of romantic love during a pivotal period in the Western intellectual history. In the Renaissance, love emerged as a central intellectual, philosophical, and literary theme. However, the late 16th-century Catholic Reformation brought about sweeping institutional and psychological changes that had a profound impact on women's place in society, particularly with regard to their sexual and emotional conduct. Notably, between 1500 and 1650, a growing number of Italian women gained access to literacy and higher education, actively contributing to cultural dialogues. Consequently, we are privy to a wealth of female voices on the subject of love, complemented by personal writings that provide intimate insights into their romantic relationships."Women Thinking Love" employs the methodologies of the History of Emotions and Literary Studies to shine a spotlight on women's unique perspectives on this theme. This approach marks a departure from the traditional viewpoint that often regards women as passive recipients of established male-crafted ideas. This research bears significant societal relevance: it presents a fresh and alternative portrayal of women, countering the conventional depiction of them as mere receptacles for emotional conventions imposed by men; it underscores the socioconstructive nature of emotions and gender. In essence, it highlights that emotions and gender identities are not innate but rather constructed through interactions between individuals and their social environments. This insight, bolstered by the Communication activities included in the project, challenges the lingering sexist attitudes that persist in contemporary society. The overarching objectives of this project are manifold: to better understand and deepen the Italian Renaissance cultural debates on love; to cast new perspectives on theoretical and literary works by Early-Modern Italian women; to scrutinise these works through the lens of the History of Emotions; to unravel how Early-Modern Italian women conceived and navigated romantic love in relation to the dominant intellectual currents of their era (Petrarchism, Neoplatonism) and to the societal expectations that shaped and governed female comportment.

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

Цел на проекта

WomenThinkingLove will provide the first History of Emotions of Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy, with regard to the system love/marriage/adultery, from a gender perspective. As Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy are still under-investigated from the perspective of the History of Emotions, the project will start an urgent research, beginning with an emotional field, love, that was central in the cultural debates of the time. Within the theoretical framework of the History of Emotions, it will combine literary studies, history of ideas and women's studies. Based on the comparison between the love theories of the time and a wide range of literary and non-literary texts containing women's voices and cognitive interactions between men and women (taken from printed and archival sources), the research will challenge the idea of women as passive recipients of men's philosophical elaborations about love, and the stereotypical idea of Counter-Reformation as an un-nuanced era of repression for women's agency. It will contribute to the ongoing re-thinking of the traditional historical periodization, highlighting the continuity in the ideas and practices of love between Renaissance and Counter-Reformation. The research is divided in three phases: a secondment at Florence University and State Archive, during which the fellow will be trained in the new methodologies of History of Emotions and archive research; an outgoing phase at NYU, under the supervision of V. Cox, a world-leading expert of Renaissance and Counter-Reformation women's writing; a return phase at Oslo University, with the guide of U. Falkeid, a prominent scholar whose approach is based exactly on the combination of literary studies and intellectual history, focused on early modern women's thinking. Beyond its scholarly value, the new narrative of women's agency provided by the research will hopefully help to counter the sexist attitude still persisting in contemporary society.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITETET I OSLO · OsloКоординаторНорвегия
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · NEW YORKСъединени щати