Prof. Dr. Benedetta Albani

Researcher

Main Focus

  • History of the Congregation of the Council in local and global perspective
  • Relations between the Apostolic See and Ibero-America in the Early Modern Period
  • Tridentine marriage between Europe and America
  • The Tribunal of the Apostolic Nunciature in Madrid, history and jurisdiction (XVI-XVIII c.)
  • Data modelling and visualization methods for historical data in digital environment

Projects

Legal History Meets Digital Humanities

Polina Solonets, Benedetta Albani, Christiane Birr, Manuela Bragagnolo, Karla Escobar, Anna Clara Lehmann Martins, Yohan Park, Andreas Wagner, Johanna Wolf, Alexandra Anokhina more

Cooperations

Former Research Group

Curriculum Vitae

Since 05/2023
Professor at the Universidad de los Andes, Santiago de Chile

Since 01/2022
Leader of the research group ‘Normative Knowledge in the Praxis of the Congregation of the Council”

Since 06/2017
Team Leader in the project RESISTANCE. Rebellion and Resistance in the Iberian Empires, 16th-19th centuries (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017)

03/2014-12/2021
Leader of the Max Planck research group 'The Governance of the Universal Church after the Council of Trent'.

Since 05/2010
Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (formerly Max Planck Institute for European Legal History) in Frankfurt.

10/2009-04/2010
Collaboration with the Vatican Secret Archive in the reorganization and study of the documents proceeding from the Apostolic Nunciature in Madrid (XVI-XX c.).

10/2009-02/2010
Study of History of Canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

05/2005-12/2006
Project with the “Archivio Storico del Vicariato di Roma” for the study, classification and description of the fond of the Tribunal of the Auditor Camerae (XVI-XVII centuries).

07-12/2005
Fellowship at the University of Cassino for study of the customs of the Papal State during the XVII-XVIII centuries using sources in the “Archivio di Stato di Roma”.

11/2008-02/2009
scholarship Fideicomiso Teixidor by the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

2006-2008
research grants by the “Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca” for research journeys in México, Spain and United States.

2005-2009
Ph.D. in “Storia politica e sociale dell’Europa Moderna e Contemporanea” at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” under co-direction at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City.

Dissertation title: Sposarsi nel Nuovo Mondo. Politica, dottrina e pratiche della concessione di dispense matrimoniali tra la Nuova Spagna e la Santa Sede (1585-1670).

2005-2006
Diploma di Archivisitica at the “Scuola Vaticana di Paleografia, Diplomatica e Archivistica”, Vatican.

2000-2005
Study of Early Modern and Modern History at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.

Thesis: Matrimoni e società a Roma nel primo Seicento attraverso i processetti matrimoniali.

1981
Born in Rome, Italy.

Completed Projects

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