This is a past event
26 February 2025, at 1 pm, Research Seminar: Dr Riccarda Suitner (LMU Munich): Venice and the Radical Reformation: an Italian Republic in European Context
Taylor A36 and online (for the link please contact k.friedrich@abdn.ac.uk)
The history of Venetian Anabaptism, hitherto little known in Reformation Studies, is the focus of this talk. The Republic of Venice was the only Catholic territory in which an Anabaptist community formed in the 16th century. Using a large quantity of archival material and rare printed sources, in her last book Venice and the Radical Reformation (2024) Riccarda Suitner has reconstructed the lives of the Republic's Anabaptists and the inquisitorial repression they suffered, and analysed the doctrinal specificities of the so-called “Radical Reformation” in this area. Events in Venice will be presented within a broader comparative framework; it will emerge that its Venetian history cannot be ignored if we are to gain a true understanding of the European Reformation.
Riccarda Suitner (MA 2011, University of Rome Sapienza; PhD 2014, Erfurt University; Habilitation 2022, University of Munich) teaches early modern history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. Her research focuses on the period between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. She is the author, among other publications, of the monograph The Dialogues of the Dead of the Early German Enlightenment, previously also published in German and Italian (2022). The first edition of the book won the German Humanities Translation Prize in 2019.
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- Centre for Early Modern Studies
- Venue
- Taylor A36 and Online
- Contact
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Contact Professor Karin Friedrich for the online link: k.friedrich@abdn.ac.uk