Conceptualising the Sacred: Catholic Reform and Lay Devotion in Early Modern Venice, 1550 -1650

我的项目调查天主教改革对十六和十七世纪威尼斯俗人精神生活的影响。在我关于天主教信仰认同的硕士论文的基础上，我的方法避开了传统上对精英的关注，并研究了俗人不是自上而下被动观察改革的方式。相反，“日常”天主教徒对决定改革的方向很感兴趣，甚至发挥了作用。我的项目将通过创新和强调日常生活中“精神资源”的概念化和使用，吸引社会、文化和宗教历史学家。

My project investigates the impact of Catholic reform on the spiritual lives of Laypeople in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Venice. Building upon my MA dissertation on Catholic confessional identity, my approach eschews the traditional focus on elites and examines the ways in which laypeople were not passive observers of reform from above. Instead, the 'everyday' Catholic was interested and even instrumental in determining the direction that reform took. My project will engage social, cultural and religious historians through its innovative and emphasis on the conceptualisation and use of 'spiritual resources' in everyday lives.