Dr Silvia Evangelisti
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Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 2053 |
Arts Building 4.22 |
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Biography
Silvia Evangelisti’s main research interests have been focussing on gender, culture and religious history in the early modern period. She has published a number of articles and a book on female monastic communities in Italy and Europe (Nuns: A History of Convent Life 1450-1700, OUP 2007). She currently engaged in collaborative work on material culture (co-editing with Sandra Cavallo: Domestic and Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe) and A Cultural History of Childhood and the Family in the Renaissance, (Berg forthcoming).
At undergraduate level she teaches “The Renaissance”, “The Enlightenment”, “Doing History”, and “Introduction to Early Modern Studies”. At post-graduate level she teaches “The early modern roots of gender”. She is prepared to supervise dissertations in all areas of European and gender history, and in on many aspects Italian cultural and social history (1450-1800).
Forthcoming publications:
Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe, S. Cavello and S. Evangelisti (eds.), (Aldershot Hants. & Burlington VT.: Ashgate 2009)
"Faith and Religion" in The Cultural History of Childhood and the Family, S. Cavello and S. Evangelisti (eds.), (Berg 2010)
"Miraculous Conversions: Alonso Benavides, Maria de Agreda, and the Franciscan Missions of Seventeenth-century Spanish America" (to be submitted to Sixteenth Century Journal)
Key Research Interests
Main research interests so far have been focusing on female monastic institutions in early modern Italy and Europe, and how religious women responded to normative practices implemented by the Catholic church and state, in the decades following the Council of Trentwomen writers - in particular mystic, religious and historical writers - in early modern and modern Italy, and more recently in Spain, and New Spain engaged in collaborative work on material, expanding work on religious institutions and families into a research on “The family and others”, and on forms of living arrangements alternative to the family, in houses or institutions; focusing on early modern Italy and explore the links between families and communities, and between forms of sociability and friendship in which men and women were involved culture, on living interiors and the meaning of space and objects in domestic and non domestic worlds.
Forthcoming publications:
'Faith and Religion' in The Cultural History of Childhood and the Family, to be published by Berg Publishers (1 May 2010)
"Miraculous Conversions: Alonso Benavides, Maria de Agreda, and the Francisan Missionaries of Seventeenth-Century Spanish America" in Sixteenth Century Journal, 2009
Publications
- Silvia Evangelisti, 2009, Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe, Ashgate, (ISBN: 9780754656470).
- Silvia Evangelisti July 2008, 'To Find God in Work? Female Social Stratification in Early Modern Italian Convents', European Hisory Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 398-416.
- Silvia Evangelisti with Margareth Lanzinger and Raffaella Sarti July 2008, 'Introduction', European History Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 365-374.
- Silvia Evangelisti, Nuns: A History of Convent Life, 1450-1750, 2007, (ISBN: 9780192804358).
- Silvia Evangelisti, 2006, 'Rooms to Share: Convent Spaces and Social Relations in Early Modern Italy', in Lyndal Roper & Ruth Harris (ed), The Art of Survival. Gender and History in Europe, 1450-2000, Oxford University Press. (ISBN: 978019920829).
- Silvia Evangelisti 2004, 'Monastic Poverty and Material Culture in Early Modern Italy', The Historical Journal,
- Silvia Evangelisti 2003, 'We do not have it and we do not want it : Women, Power and Convent Reform in Florence', Sixteenth Century Journal, pp. 677-700.