Marco Cavarzere ist von September 2024 bis Februar 2025 Fellow des Kollegs.
Vita
Marco Cavarzere studied history and literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, where he earned his Ph.D. In 2014 he obtained an Alexander-von-Humboldt post-doctoral fellowship at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich and from 2017 to 2020 he was wissenschatlicher Mitarbeiter at the chair of early modern history of the University of Frankfurt (prof. Birgit Emich). From 2021 he works at the University Ca´ Foscari of Venice.
Forschungsprojekt
Einheit und Vielfalt in den päpstlichen Gerichten der Frühen Neuzeit
My research project analyses the jurisdictional power that the Papacy exercised during the early modern period in several European states and in their non-European territories through the tribunals of the Apostolic nuncios. The goal of the research is twofold. On the one hand, it investigates the layered legal arrangements with secular authorities and different components of the Catholic Church (religious orders, bishops, etc.) that led to the foundation of this network of legal courts. Through a well calibrated policy, the Papacy managed to establish worldwide tribunals which were peripheral in their composition—they were convened in the European capitals, recruited their members on site, and operated according to customary procedures and laws—and universal in their source of legitimacy. On the other hand, it aims to shed light on the role that different social actors played in consolidating such a judicial apparatus. The exponential expansion of administrative and judicial responsibilities that these courts subsumed was primarily due to the flow of pleas and requests for intervention that historical actors of different provenance and social status addressed to the nuncios’ tribunals in order to foster their political and legal struggles. Through these two focal points, the project sets out to understand how early modern Papacy asserted an allegedly universal and absolute power within different legal regimes and legal demands.
Einschlägige Veröffentlichungen
Making Truth in Early Modern Catholicism, ed. by A. Badea, B. Boute, M. Cavarzere and S. Vanden Broecke, Amsterdam 2021.
Historical Culture and Political Reform in the Italian Enlightenment (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment), Liverpool 2020.
La prassi della censura nell’Italia del Seicento. Tra repressione e mediazione, Roma 2011.