Dr. Benedetta Albani

Researcher
Research Field Coordinator

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Publication References

Main Focus

History of Canon law in Ibero-America
Roman Archives and the History of Canon law in Ibero-America
Tridentine marriage between Europe and America
The Tribunal of the Apostolic Nunciature in Madrid, history and jurisdiction (XVI-XVIII c.)

Research Group

Normative knowledge in the praxis of the Congregation of the Council. The production of normative categories and models for the post-Tridentine world

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Former Research Group

Governance of the Universal Church after the Council of Trent
Papal Administrative Concepts and Practices as exemplified by the Congregation of the Council between the Early Modern Period and the Present

Canon Law Digital Humanities Early Modern Period Historical Archives History of Christianity Knowledge of Normativity from the Religious Sphere Modernity Reference Work Roman Curia Sources

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Projects

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Orbis Dioecesium. Authority data on legal-historical changes of catholic dioceses (OrDi)

Antiquity Canon Law Digital Humanities Doing Legal History Early Modern Period History of Christianity Middle Ages Modernity Normative knowledge in the praxis of the Congregation of the Council Reference Work

Benedetta Albani, Yohan Park more

SCC Explorer. An Interactive Platform on the History of the Congregation of the Council

Canon Law Digital Humanities Historical Archives History of Christianity Knowledge of Normativity from the Religious Sphere Modernity Reference Work Roman Curia Sources

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From the Indies to Rome. The Travel Diary of an Unfinished Journey by the Jesuit Miguel de Viñas (1677-1698)

Canon Law Early Modern Period Glocalizing Knowledge of Normativity History of Christianity Iberian Worlds Roman Curia Rome and America

Benedetta Albani, Rafael Gaune, José Araneda
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Rome and America. New analytical and methodological approaches

Canon Law Early Modern Period Global History Glocalizing Knowledge of Normativity History of Christianity Roman Curia

Benedetta Albani more

H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017

Africa Asia Cooperation Digital Humanities Early Modern Period Global South Glocalizing Knowledge of Normativity Iberian Worlds Modernity

Benedetta Albani, Manuela Bragagnolo, Anna Clara Lehmann Martins, Mariana Armond Dias Paes, Luisa Stella Coutinho,José Luis Egío García, Alexandra Anokhina
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Weaving a historiographical tapestry of Spanish Patronato Regio and Portuguese Padroado

Canon Law Early Modern Period Global History Glocalizing Knowledge of Normativity Iberian Worlds Reference Work Roman Curia Rome and America Sources

Benedetta Albani, Anna Clara Lehmann Martins, Giovanni Pizzorusso more

A new look at the Patronato Regio

Canon Law Early Modern Period Glocalizing Knowledge of Normativity Roman Curia Rome and America

Benedetta Albani, Giovanni Pizzorusso more

Seminar on Legal History in the Iberian Worlds

Digital Humanities Seminar Doing Legal History

Polina Solonets, Benedetta Albani, Christiane Birr, Manuela Bragagnolo, Karla Escobar, Anna Clara Lehmann Martins, Yohan Park, Andreas Wagner, Johanna Wolf, Alexandra Anokhina more

Reorganization of the Archive of the Congregation of the Council

Canon Law Cooperation Early Modern Period Historical Archives History of Christianity Knowledge of Normativity from the Religious Sphere Modernity Reference Work Roman Curia

Benedetta Albani, Francesco Russo more

Cooperation

RESISTANCE. Rebellion and Resistance in the Iberian Empires, 16th-19th centuries

Africa Asia Cooperation Digital Humanities Early Modern Period Global South Glocalizing Knowledge of Normativity Iberian Worlds Modernity

Benedetta Albani, Manuela Bragagnolo, Anna Clara Lehmann Martins, Mariana Armond Dias Paes, Luisa Stella Coutinho,José Luis Egío García, Alexandra Anokhina
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Curriculum Vitae

Since 06/2017
Team Leader in the project RESISTANCE. Rebellion and Resistance in the Iberian Empires, 16th-19th centuries (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017)

Since 03/2014
Leader of the Max Planck Research Group Governance of the Universal Church after the Council of Trent

Since 05/2010
Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (formerly Max Planck Institute for European Legal History) in Frankfurt.

10/2009-04/2010
Collaboration with the Vatican Secret Archive in the reorganization and study of the documents proceeding from the Apostolic Nunciature in Madrid (XVI-XX c.).

10/2009-02/2010
Study of History of Canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

05/2005-12/2006
Project with the “Archivio Storico del Vicariato di Roma” for the study, classification and description of the fond of the Tribunal of the Auditor Camerae (XVI-XVII centuries).

07-12/2005
Fellowship at the University of Cassino for study of the customs of the Papal State during the XVII-XVIII centuries using sources in the “Archivio di Stato di Roma”.

11/2008-02/2009
scholarship Fideicomiso Teixidor by the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

2006-2008
research grants by the “Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca” for research journeys in México, Spain and United States.

2005-2009
Ph.D. in “Storia politica e sociale dell’Europa Moderna e Contemporanea” at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” under co-direction at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City.

Dissertation title: Sposarsi nel Nuovo Mondo. Politica, dottrina e pratiche della concessione di dispense matrimoniali tra la Nuova Spagna e la Santa Sede (1585-1670).

2005-2006
Diploma di Archivisitica at the “Scuola Vaticana di Paleografia, Diplomatica e Archivistica”, Vatican.

2000-2005
Study of Early Modern and Modern History at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.

Thesis: Matrimoni e società a Roma nel primo Seicento attraverso i processetti matrimoniali.

1981
Born in Rome, Italy.

Completed Project

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