3 July
9.30-9.45 Introduction
Cecilia Cristellon, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
European Perspectives
9.45-10.45 Chair:
Heide Wunder, University of Kassel
Keynote lecture
Silvana Seidel Menchi, University of Pisa
Searching for a Bride of the Same Faith: The Experiences of Philo-
Protestant Communities in Sixteenth-Century Italy
10.45-11.15 Tea & coffee
11.15-12.45 Chair:
Magnus Ressel, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
Cristina Setti, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Religious Contacts and Conflicts between the Catholics and the
Greek Orthodox in the Venetian Territories in the Seventeenth
Century
Iwo Hryniewicz, Dawid Machaj, University of Warsaw
Violent Disruptions of the Rites of Passage in Early Modern
Cracow
12.45-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.00 Chair:
Kerstin Weiand, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
Danielle McCormack, European University Institute, Florence
Religious Conflicts as a Means of Understanding Personal Drama
in Early Modern Ireland: A Case of Marital Breakdown in 1660s
Fermanagh
Josef Kadeřábek, Charles University, Prague
Changes in the Rites of Passage in the Multi-Confessional Milieu
of a Bohemian Town in the Seventeenth Century
16-16.30 Tea & coffee
16.30-18.00 Chair:
Keith Luria, North Carolina State University
Ellinor Forster, University of Innsbruck
Forced Baptisms, Mixed Marriages and Confessional Conflicts in
the Recently Parted Territory of Silesia against the Background of
Austrian Political Strategies in the Eighteenth Century
Cecilia Cristellon, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
Borach Levi, the Roman Inquisition and Jurisdiction over Jewish
Marriages in the Eighteenth Century
4 July
Extra-European Perspectives
09.30-10.30 Chair:
Silvana Seidel Menchi, University of Pisa
Keynote lecture
Keith Luria, North Carolina State University
Baptisms and Marriages in Constructing a Catholic Community in
Seventeenth-Century Annam
10.30-11.00 Tea & coffee
11.00-12.30 Chair:
Benjamin Steiner, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
Cesare Santus, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa / Ecole Pratique
des Hautes Etudes, Paris
Necessary Transgressions: the Problem of Communicatio in Sacris
in the East in a General Inquiry of the Propaganda Fide
Benedetta Albani, Max Planck Institute for European Legal
History, Frankfurt am Main
The Marriage of the Cristianos Nuevos in Mexico (Sixteenth-
Seventeenth Centuries)
12.30-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.00 Chair:
Heide Wunder, University of Kassel
Otto Danwerth, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History,
Frankfurt am Main
Funeral Rituals in Spain and Peru as an Indicator of Religious
Contacts and Conflicts (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries)
Concluding remarks and final discussion
Conference sponsored by the Max Weber Foundation