The Carlyle Lectures 2027
The Art of Not Being Governed Quite So Much
23 February 17:00 | South School, Examination Schools
Professor Stefania Tutino (University College London)
What did Catholic government look like from the side of the governed? This lecture examines forms of critique that remained within Catholicism, focusing on the unstable relationship between obedience, observance, compliance, and rebellion. It shows how Catholics could recognize authority without always obeying it.
The Art of Governing in Post-Reformation Catholicism: Rethinking Questions of Authority, Conscience, and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
How did the Catholic Church govern after the Reformation? This lecture series examines that question through a series of studies on authority, conscience, memory, and truth in early modern Europe. Moving between theology and administration, political theory and archival sources, Rome and the localities, it traces the institutions and practices through which the Church sought to guide conduct and regulate its flock. What emerges is a world of overlapping jurisdictions and competing authorities, where governing depended as much on negotiation and adaptation as on command.
