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Panel co-sponsored by EMoDiR organized for the 2019 Conference of the Canadian Association for Italian Studies (CAIS)Orvieto (TR) ItalyJune 13-16 2019&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;As part of the Spanish Empire, the Kingdom of Naples was not under the secular government of the Pope, but was intimately connected to its spiritual power. The lands of Southern Italy were a frontier space for the Counter-Reformation Church. Rome sent missions to the south in order to solve what they viewed as threats for the control of the Catholic faith: misuses of ecclesiastical benefits, lack of discipline among the regular clergy, errors of faith and heresies. This large-scale attempt at daily control opened many encounters and frictions between secular authorities and the ecclesiastical hierarchy, especially when the time came to settle the distinction between what would be an effervescent intellectual life and what would instead be pursued and condemned as an incubator of heretic thought.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;This call for papers invites abstracts that address issues of intellectual life and ecclesiastical control in Southern Italy during the early modern period.&#160;Possible topics include:Circulation of ideas&#160;Circulation of books and writingsNetworks of authors/thinkersIntellectual life in religious ordersCultural environments in southern citiesEcclesiastical control of books/librariesDisputes between secular and Church authoritiesRoles of women in the diffusion of ideas/writingsLatin/vernacular translationsBoundaries between acceptable and unacceptable writingsWe are particularly interested in papers that analyze an unedited, newly founded, or little-known source (manuscripts or printed books, letters, archival documents), in papers describing a singular cultural and intellectual milieu and giving attention to prosopographical reconstructions, or papers that present a social network analysis.&#160;Papers should be 15-20 minutes.&#160;Please email your abstract (max 300 words) and a short CV (max 1 page) in English, French, or Italian to Isabel Harvey (isabel.harvey@hu-berlin.de) and Milena Sabato (sabato.milena@libero.it) by the deadline of&#160;February 28, 2019.&#160;