Ambiguous Boundaries Sex Crimes and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Early Modern Mediterranean World

Recent historical research has uncovered the role played by religious conversions and concrete practices of toleration in the Mediterranean region in the genesis of sceptical approaches towards religions in Europe during the early modern period. This article aims to analyse this phenomenon within th...

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Auteur principal: Grassi, Umberto 1977- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Morcelliana [2018]
Dans: Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
Année: 2018, Volume: 84, Numéro: 2, Pages: 513-528
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Mittelmeerraum / Interculturalité / Délit sexuel / Délimitation / Ère moderne / Histoire 1450-1650
Sujets non-standardisés:B Sex crimes
B Storia religiosa
B Theology
B Islam
B Sessualità
B Cristianesimo
B Religious History
B Sexuality
B Toleration
B Faith
B Christianity
B tolleranza
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Résumé:Recent historical research has uncovered the role played by religious conversions and concrete practices of toleration in the Mediterranean region in the genesis of sceptical approaches towards religions in Europe during the early modern period. This article aims to analyse this phenomenon within the cultural and geographical frame of the Italian peninsula, examining the relationship between religious toleration, scepticism, and sexual mores. The author investigates the links between two apparently unrelated matters, religious toleration and tolerant attitudes towards sexual transgressions, starting from the analyses of archival material from the time of the Spanish Inquisition in Sicily. In the cases under examination, the praise of sexual freedom - sup- ported by a heretical re-reading of the myth of the Fall from Grace - was paired with the idea that "all can be saved in their own faith". (English)
ISSN:2611-8742
Contient:Enthalten in: Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni