Neil Tarrant
Biographic Data
| ID | 1608186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Tarrant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Tarrant |
| SIGNATURE | TARRANT N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7597-0210 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Curses of Modernity
In this article, I consider the narratives framing Italian-language accounts of ecclesiastical censorship in early modern Italy and its impact on the modern Italian state. I set out Adriano Prosperi, Vittorio Frajese and Gigliola Fragnito’s interpretations of the significance of the Roman Inquisition and the Congregation of the Index. Although each of these historians engaged with the theories of modernity developed by such scholars as Max Weber …
The natural history of a Neapolitan miracle
A Poisonous Legacy
Review of Alisha Rankin, The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2021), pp.329
The Index of Forbidden Books
Journal Article The Index of Forbidden Books: Four Centuries of Struggle over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God, by Robin Vose Get access The Index of Forbidden Books: Four Centuries of Struggle over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God, by Robin Vose (London: Reaktion Books, 2022; pp. 352. £25). Neil Tarrant Neil Tarrant University of Leeds, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
Saving Sanctity
The impact of the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Reform movement on the ecclesiastical censorship of science, philosophy and magic has been an enduring theme in the historiography of early modern Italy. In this paper, I consider how the Church's desire to defend the truth of miracles from Protestant criticisms on the one hand and their efforts to centralise the process of verifying miracles on the other affected the investigation of philosop…
ClaireWeeda
Claire Weeda's work examines how ethnotypes were imagined and rhetorically constructed in Europe in the period 950–1250. It offers a detailed and richly illustrated account of how contemporaries thought about and articulated their conceptions of ethnic communities, nationes, in a period prior to the emergence of modern nation states. It demonstrates how clerics and courtiers drew upon biblical interpretation, classical tropes, ethnic stereotypes …
John Christopoulos, Abortion in Early Modern Italy
In this work, John Christopoulos draws on a range of perspectives from medical, social, religious, and legal history to offer a rich, engaging, and detailed account of the history of abortion in early modern Italy. Handling his subject matter with care and sensitivity, he reconstructs how early modern Italians thought about and responded to women’s bodies and the experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, stillbirth, and abortion. The latter category,…
Disaster Narratives in Early Modern Naples
This volume of essays is the product of a two-year research project based in the University of Naples Federico II, undertaken between 2014 and 2016. The theme of natural disasters provides a focus for a multi-disciplinary collection that illuminates numerous facets of the society and culture of the Kingdom of Naples during the late medieval and early modern periods. In the introduction, the editors (Domenico Cecere, Chiara di Caprio, Lorenza Gian…
Paolo Galluzzi, The Italian Renaissance of Machines
Sharon T. Strocchia, Forgotten Healers
"Sharon T. Strocchia, Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy.." Canadian Journal of History, 55(3), pp. 292–293
The Ambiguities of Censorship in Post–Tridentine Italy
In this article I discuss the ecclesiastical censorship of physiognomy in post–Tridentine Italy. Existing studies of the criteria used by the Roman Inquisition to examine operative arts have rightly emphasized continuities with the opinions of earlier authorities, and especially those of Thomas Aquinas. Historians have, nevertheless, tended to suggest that Aquinas's ideas were transmitted to the Inquisition and Congregation of the Index virtually…
Christopher M. Graney, Mathematical Disquisitions
A.A. Martínez, Burned Alive
"A.A. Martínez, Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition." Canadian Journal of History, 54(3), pp. 404–405
Concord and Toleration in the Thought of Francesco Pucci, 1578–81
Francesco Pucci was a Florentine heretic who was executed by the Catholic Church in 1597.Since the 1930s, he has been considered by Italian historians to be an important contributor to the development of theories of religious toleration.A close analysis of two texts written by Pucci reveals that his thought was more complex than previously supposed.In a letter to Niccol Balbani, a Calvinist minister in Geneva, Pucci described his heterodox theolo…
Between Raphael and Galileo
Journal Article Between Raphael and Galileo: Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaisssance Italy, by Alexander Marr Get access Between Raphael and Galileo: Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaisssance Italy, by Alexander Marr (Chicago: U. of Chicago P., 2011; pp. 359. £29). Neil Tarrant Neil Tarrant Imperial College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historica…
Censoring Science in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Questions regarding the extent of ecclesiastical censorship in sixteenth-century Italy and its impact on the practice of science have long attracted the attention of historians of science.For many years these questions have been hard to address.Perhaps the most important obstacle facing scholars has been severely restricted access to the Archives of the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith (ACDF), which houses many of the extant records of the R…
The Identity of the History of Science and Medicine
The Identity of the History of Science and Medicine." Intellectual History Review, 23(4), pp. 597–598
Giambattista Della Porta and the Roman Inquisition
It has long been noted that towards the end of the sixteenth century the Catholic Church began to use its instruments of censorship – the Inquisition and the Index of Forbidden Books – to prosecute magic with increased vigour. These developments are often deemed to have had important consequences for the development of modern science in Italy, for they delimited areas of legitimate investigation of the natural world. Previous accounts of the cens…
Censoring Science in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Questions regarding the extent of ecclesiastical censorship in sixteenth-century Italy and its impact on the practice of science have long attracted the attention of historians of science.For many years these questions have been hard to address.Perhaps the most important obstacle facing scholars has been severely restricted access to the Archives of the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith (ACDF), which houses many of the extant records of the R…
Giambattista Della Porta and the Roman Inquisition
It has long been noted that towards the end of the sixteenth century the Catholic Church began to use its instruments of censorship – the Inquisition and the Index of Forbidden Books – to prosecute magic with increased vigour. These developments are often deemed to have had important consequences for the development of modern science in Italy, for they delimited areas of legitimate investigation of the natural world. Previous accounts of the cens…
The Identity of the History of Science and Medicine
The Identity of the History of Science and Medicine." Intellectual History Review, 23(4), pp. 597–598
Giambattista Della Porta and the Roman Inquisition
It has long been noted that towards the end of the sixteenth century the Catholic Church began to use its instruments of censorship – the Inquisition and the Index of Forbidden Books – to prosecute magic with increased vigour. These developments are often deemed to have had important consequences for the development of modern science in Italy, for they delimited areas of legitimate investigation of the natural world. Previous accounts of the cens…
Between Raphael and Galileo
Journal Article Between Raphael and Galileo: Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaisssance Italy, by Alexander Marr Get access Between Raphael and Galileo: Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaisssance Italy, by Alexander Marr (Chicago: U. of Chicago P., 2011; pp. 359. £29). Neil Tarrant Neil Tarrant Imperial College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historica…
Censoring Science in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Questions regarding the extent of ecclesiastical censorship in sixteenth-century Italy and its impact on the practice of science have long attracted the attention of historians of science.For many years these questions have been hard to address.Perhaps the most important obstacle facing scholars has been severely restricted access to the Archives of the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith (ACDF), which houses many of the extant records of the R…
Concord and Toleration in the Thought of Francesco Pucci, 1578–81
Francesco Pucci was a Florentine heretic who was executed by the Catholic Church in 1597.Since the 1930s, he has been considered by Italian historians to be an important contributor to the development of theories of religious toleration.A close analysis of two texts written by Pucci reveals that his thought was more complex than previously supposed.In a letter to Niccol Balbani, a Calvinist minister in Geneva, Pucci described his heterodox theolo…
The Ambiguities of Censorship in Post–Tridentine Italy
In this article I discuss the ecclesiastical censorship of physiognomy in post–Tridentine Italy. Existing studies of the criteria used by the Roman Inquisition to examine operative arts have rightly emphasized continuities with the opinions of earlier authorities, and especially those of Thomas Aquinas. Historians have, nevertheless, tended to suggest that Aquinas's ideas were transmitted to the Inquisition and Congregation of the Index virtually…
Christopher M. Graney, Mathematical Disquisitions
A.A. Martínez, Burned Alive
"A.A. Martínez, Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition." Canadian Journal of History, 54(3), pp. 404–405
Sharon T. Strocchia, Forgotten Healers
"Sharon T. Strocchia, Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy.." Canadian Journal of History, 55(3), pp. 292–293
Disaster Narratives in Early Modern Naples
This volume of essays is the product of a two-year research project based in the University of Naples Federico II, undertaken between 2014 and 2016. The theme of natural disasters provides a focus for a multi-disciplinary collection that illuminates numerous facets of the society and culture of the Kingdom of Naples during the late medieval and early modern periods. In the introduction, the editors (Domenico Cecere, Chiara di Caprio, Lorenza Gian…
Paolo Galluzzi, The Italian Renaissance of Machines
John Christopoulos, Abortion in Early Modern Italy
In this work, John Christopoulos draws on a range of perspectives from medical, social, religious, and legal history to offer a rich, engaging, and detailed account of the history of abortion in early modern Italy. Handling his subject matter with care and sensitivity, he reconstructs how early modern Italians thought about and responded to women’s bodies and the experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, stillbirth, and abortion. The latter category,…
ClaireWeeda
Claire Weeda's work examines how ethnotypes were imagined and rhetorically constructed in Europe in the period 950–1250. It offers a detailed and richly illustrated account of how contemporaries thought about and articulated their conceptions of ethnic communities, nationes, in a period prior to the emergence of modern nation states. It demonstrates how clerics and courtiers drew upon biblical interpretation, classical tropes, ethnic stereotypes …
A Poisonous Legacy
Review of Alisha Rankin, The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2021), pp.329
The Index of Forbidden Books
Journal Article The Index of Forbidden Books: Four Centuries of Struggle over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God, by Robin Vose Get access The Index of Forbidden Books: Four Centuries of Struggle over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God, by Robin Vose (London: Reaktion Books, 2022; pp. 352. £25). Neil Tarrant Neil Tarrant University of Leeds, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
Saving Sanctity
The impact of the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Reform movement on the ecclesiastical censorship of science, philosophy and magic has been an enduring theme in the historiography of early modern Italy. In this paper, I consider how the Church's desire to defend the truth of miracles from Protestant criticisms on the one hand and their efforts to centralise the process of verifying miracles on the other affected the investigation of philosop…
The Curses of Modernity
In this article, I consider the narratives framing Italian-language accounts of ecclesiastical censorship in early modern Italy and its impact on the modern Italian state. I set out Adriano Prosperi, Vittorio Frajese and Gigliola Fragnito’s interpretations of the significance of the Roman Inquisition and the Congregation of the Index. Although each of these historians engaged with the theories of modernity developed by such scholars as Max Weber …
The natural history of a Neapolitan miracle
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