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Oracula Chaldaica. Non solo la Lamaštu, quindi, come messo in luce da D. R. West, ma anche
Gula, la dea guaritrice protettrice dei cani, e la dea-madre Ninhursanga, ovvero la Beelet ilie
accadica, possiedono caratteri che si riscontrano in Hekate. Le fisionomie di queste due dee
sono piuttosto sfocate e possono assumere manifestazioni diverse; non così la terza grande
figura femminile, Inana / Ištar, anch'essa presente tuttavia in taluni aspetti della Hekate degli
Oracula Chaldaica. L'indagine considererà quali tratti, da quale figura divina siano stati
assorbiti da quest'ultima e in quale contesto di pensiero.
Tue 15 th , 9.00, Classroom Aula Magna
Raffaele Manduca, University of Messina, Italy
Due centri, una periferia. Strutture ecclesiastiche e dinamiche istituzionali nella Sicilia
spagnola
The institutional triangle (Judge of Monarchy, Inquisition, Bishops), complicated by the
important supplement of Tribunal of the Crusade on which the ecclesiastic organization and
significant quotes of the Sicilian religious background depend, is built through a long period,
strict, political dialects; in this, the centrality of the centre-periphery relation is complicated by
the first term (Madrid-Roma) splitting, the Sicilian province refers to. By arranging the
religious organization peculiar traits, this institutional play, along with the right of jus
patronato over all the reign dioceses, will configure the same bodies as instruments by which
the Spanish centre will follow an ecclesiastic politics appropriate to a modern public entity
(including fiscal and political-disciplinary advantages). Thus, starting from 16 th century, Sicily
becomes an increasingly filled space, in terms of religious-ecclesiastic jurisdiction with a rigid
disciplinary competitiveness (in addition to the pastoral one that involves bishops and religious
orders) that has remarkable effects over people’s background. Besides, at the same time,
through a chronic struggle between the capitals (Madrid-Palermo) and the Roman seat,
complicated by the condition of removal from the power that marks the Sicilian periphery in
comparison with the composite monarchy core, an instable balance settles and it is destined to
become more and more evident during the 17 th century. This precariousness is dramatically
broken at the beginning of 18 th century, during the harshest conflict between State and Church
in the whole Modern Age, that is known as the Liparitana controversy.
Barbara Marino, University of Messina, Italy
Memoria, violenza e oblio: gli alastores
Tue 15 th , 9.00, Classroom 6
Sometimes the inability to forget takes the shape of a terrible ghost who threatens the identity
of every single person and of the community he/she belongs to. Alastor represents one of these
threats. It is the executioner and the victim of a murder, the revenge demon who comes and
brings death and, at the same time, the demon who has been evoked by this death itself. Alastor
appears as the crime and the origin, the consequences and the punishment of the crime itself.
Therefore, the term alastor belongs to both the victim’s and the murderer’s semantic field. The
memory – as the etymology of the term alastor reveals – is the place where two mirror
characters are so deeply linked that a single term is related to both of them. Two men, giving
and receiving death, mirror each other in their own eyes and look themselves turning into a
murderer and a victim. At this point a permanent sign sticks in their memory and deprives them
of every sort of rest. Many dangers go around alastor threatening the religious order. One of