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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)
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
Evangelisti, Silvia (2008) To Find God in Work? Female Social Stratification in Early Modern Italian Convents. European History Quarterly, 38 (3). pp. 398-416.
Evangelisti, Silvia, Lanzinger, Margareth and Sarti, Raffaella (2008) Introduction. European History Quarterly, 38 (3). pp. 365-374.
Evangelisti, Silvia (2008) A Room of One's Own in the Era of the Communal. Times Higher Education Supplement.
Evangelisti, Silvia (2008) Structures and Subjectivities: Attending to Early Modern Women. Modern Languages Review, 4.
Evangelisti, Silvia (2004) Monastic Poverty and Material Culture in Early Modern Italy. The Historical Journal, 47 (1). pp. 1-20.
Evangelisti, Silvia (2003) We do not have it and we do not want it : Women, Power and Convent Reform in Florence. Sixteenth Century Journal, 34 (3). pp. 677-700.
Evangelisti, Silvia (2000) Wives, Widows, and Brides of Christ: Marriage and the Convent in the Historiography of Early Modern Italy. The Historical Journal, 43 (1). pp. 233-247.
Evangelisti, Silvia (1997) Dalla letteratura all storia: la monografia su Camilla Faa di Fernanda Sorbelli Bonfa (1878-1982). Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento (XXII). pp. 401-419.
Evangelisti, Silvia (1996) Complicating Categories. Women, Gender and Difference: la X edizione della Berkshire Conference (17). pp. 69-71.
Evangelisti, Silvia (1995) 'Farne quello che pare e piace...' L'uso e la trasmissione delle celle nel monastero di Santa Giulia di Brescia (1597-1688). Quaderni Storici (88). pp. 85-109.
Evangelisti, Silvia (2013) Material Culture. In: The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation. Ashgate. (In Press)
Evangelisti, Silvia (2013) Gender, Religion, and the Spanish American in 16th and 17th Centuries. In: Communities and Identities in the Iberian World: Studies in Honour of Jim Casey. UNSPECIFIED. (In Press)
Evangelisti, Silvia (2012) Education and the Senses: Fragments for Future Thinking. In: Essays in Honour of Joseph Connor. Harvard, Florence. (In Press)
Evangelisti, Silvia (2012) Spaces for Agency: the View from Female Religious Communities. In: Attending to Early Modern Women and Men. UNSPECIFIED. (In Press)
Evangelisti, Silvia (2011) Cultura Material y relaciones de genero en la reciente historiografia italiana de la Edad Moderna. In: La Historia de las mujeres y del genéro en Italia. Icaria, Barcelona.
Evangelisti, Silvia (2010) Faith and Religion. In: The Cultural History of Childhood and the Family. Berg, Oxford.
Evangelisti, Silvia (2007) Ricche e povere: classi di monache in etá moderna. In: Bollettino della Societá Italiana di Demografia Storica, a cura di Margareth Lanzingher and Raffaella Sarti. Udine.
Evangelisti, Silvia (2007) Voci da dentro: scrittrici mistiche e clausura monastica nell'Europa mediterranea tra Cinque e Seicento in Mediterranoesis. In: Vici dal Medioevo e Rinascimento a cura di Roberta Morosini e Cristina Perissinotto. Naples.
Evangelisti, Silvia (2006) Rooms to Share: Convent Spaces and Social Relations in Early Modern Italy. In: The Art of Survival. Gender and History in Europe, 1450-2000. Oxford University Press, pp. 55-71. ISBN 978019920829
Evangelisti, Silvia (2001) Arte e clausura: le monache di San Maurizio al monastero Maggiore di Milano. In: I doni della cultura. Banca Popolare di Milano .
Evangelisti, Silvia (2000) Arts and the Advent of Clausura: the Convent of Saint Catherine in Tridentine Florence. In: Suora Pautilla Nelli (1523-1588): The First Woman Painter in Florence. Cadmo, Florence, pp. 67-82.
Evangelisti, Silvia (1996) Moral Virtues and Personal Goods: the Double Representation of the Female Monastic Identity. In: Women in the Religious Life. Yearbook of the Department of History and Civilization. European University Institute, Florence, pp. 27-54.
Evangelisti, Silvia (1995) Angelica Baitelli, la historiadora. In: La mujer barroca. Alianza Editorial, Madrid, pp. 87-108.
Evangelisti, Silvia (1994) The Woman Writing in the Convent. In: Women of the Golden Age. An International Debate on Women in Seventeenth-century Holland, England and Italy. Verloren, pp. 157-165. ISBN 9789065503831
Evangelisti, Silvia (1994) Identitá intellettuale e relazioni familiari: Angelica e Lodovico Baitelli (XVI-XVII). In: Las sabias mujeres : educacion, saber y autoria (siglos III-XVII). Colección Laya . A C Al-Mudayna, Madrid, pp. 247-61.
Evangelisti, Silvia (1992) Memoria di antiche madri. I generi della storiografia monastica femminile in Italia (secc. XV-XVIII). In: La voz del silencio, I: Fuentes directas para la historia de las mujeres (siglos VIII al XVIII), edicion de Cristina Segura Graino. Coleccion Laya, Madrid, pp. 221-249.
Evangelisti, Silvia (1992) Angelica Baitelli, la storica. In: Barocco al femminile. Laterza, Roma-Bari, pp. 71-95.
Evangelisti, Silvia (2012) Monache. Vita di convento 1450-1700. Il Mulino, Bologna. (In Press)
Cavallo, Sandra and Evangelisti, Silvia, eds. (2010) A Cultural History of Childhood and the Family in the Renaissance. A Cultural History of Childhood and Family, 3 . Berg, Oxford. ISBN 9781845208264
Evangelisti, Silvia (2009) Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe. Ashgate, p. 300. ISBN 9780754656470
Evangelisti, Silvia (2008) Nuns: A History of Convent Life (Paperback). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Evangelisti, Silvia (2007) Nuns: A History of Convent Life, 1450-1750. Oxford University Press, p. 301. ISBN 9780192804358
Evangelisti, Silvia, Martinat, M, Medioli, F, Papa, C and Tonini, C (1992) Generazioni. Rosemberg e Sellier, Torino.
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