Eleonora Cappuccilli will present her EU-funded project looking at female prophecy from late 15th- to early 17th-century Italy, Spain, and England. The project aims at creating a theoretical account of female prophecy as a key to understanding early modern religion.
The research project expands and deepens Max Weber’s theory of charisma by demonstrating women’s ambition and capacity to appropriate prophecy as a creative revolutionary force of history. The project identifies Italian ‘living saints’ and humanists; Spanish beatas and conversas; and English visionaries as privileged actors of prophetic charisma and challenges assumptions that prophecy responds just to national or local interests and debates. A transnational approach is needed to demonstrate the transfers of knowledge and exchanges in Italy, England and Spain in this era of extensive religious mobility and before the Universal Church was completely divided.
Eleonora Cappuccilli received her PhD from the University of Bologna in 2016, she was a post-doctoral fellow in History of Ideas, University of Oslo in 2018-2021 and has been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Toronto and University of Oslo since 2023.
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