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Looking forward to discussing Stefano Dall’Aglio’s new book, The Collector of Wonders: Leopoldo de’ Medici and Seventeenth-Century Rome (Carocci, 2025), at the Medici Archive Project in Florence on 18 June at 5:00 PM

The 2026 Annual Conference of the Global Italian Religious Networks (GLIRN) will be held at the University of Salerno on June 11–12 . as.nyu.edu/departments/...

A Conversation with Philip Soergel (1959 - 2026). Interview by Stefano Villani (2013) go.umd.edu/2bfz.

On 28 May 2026, at 15:00, as part of the 22nd International Festival of History, èStoria 2026, the University of Udine will present the panel “Christians, War and Antichrist: Jesuits and Quakers in Seventeenth-Century Europe” www.estoria.it/event/cristi...

Up first here at EMoDiR’s final panel at the RSA, Sarah Richman will talk about “Marlowe's Dancing Devils in Doctor Faustus.” #RSA2026

Jordan Ivie, arguing that early modern attitudes towards demonic familiars are a direct reflection of early modern attitudes towards gender itself. #RSA2026

And now, in our final paper of a packed day here at #RSA2026, Kevin Cochard examines a corpus of french “canards” by cataloguing the various forms of encounters with devils throughout the long seventeenth century.

David Lee Vaughan III explores how Marchamont Nedham used Satanic imagery during the English Civil Wars to demonize opponents and shape political discourse in the 1640s. #RSA2026

Ana Sáez-Hidalgo examines demonizing portrayals of Elizabeth I in Catholic polemic. From exile texts to images of the Queen in hell, the paper shows how diabolical imagery challenged her religious and political authority after 1570. #RSA2026

Bradley Mollmann examines demonization and the collapse of social trust in early modern Spain. Centered on 1609—Basque witch hunts and the Morisco expulsion—the paper links accusations of diabolism to crises of authority and cohesion within the “General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century #RSA2026

Giulio Greco, “Bodin’s Demonology: Between Control and Subversion” From the Démonomanie to the Colloquium Heptaplomeres, Bodin turns demonological logic back on Christian dogma itself—using it not only for control, but as a tool of dissent and epistemological critique #RSA2026

Second paper of our #EMoDiR panel at #RSA2026: Jakob Moser (University of Vienna), “Theologia Daemonum.” From psalm-singing demons in hagiography to Reformation prints crowded with reading devils, a striking visual and intellectual “theology of demons” emerges—captured in truly fascinating images

Third paper of our #EMoDiR panel at #RSA2026: Christine Kooi, “The Devil Congratulates Charles IX.” A biting 1572 Protestant Pasquillus imagines Satan praising the king after the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre—searing satire that sharpens confessional polemic in the later Reformation.

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Thrilled to chair and co-organize three EMoDiR panels at RSA San Francisco 2026 on The Devil and Dissent: from demonology and Reformation polemic to political demonization and gendered stage representations #RenTwitter #earlymodern #RenTwitter #earlymodern

Stefano Villani, «Un abisso di guerre et confusione». Rapporti diplomatici, informazione e doni tra l’Inghilterra della guerra civile e dell’Interregno e la Toscana di Ferdinando II. This chapter examines how Amerigo Salvetti interpreted the English Civil Wars and the Interregnum. go.umd.edu/26k5