Research

24 November 2020

At the University of Teramo

Our team member Marco Papasidero is presenting his new book, Translatio sanctitatis. I furti di reliquie nell’Italia medievale, at the University of Teramo, for the activities of the PhD candidates in Historical studies. The event will take […]
19 November 2020

Seminar “Dies Natalis: il corpo del santo tra vita e morte”

NeMoSanctI is organizing the seminar “Dies Natalis: il corpo del santo tra vita e morte”, that will be held online (link here) on 16 December 2020. The seminar will be […]
30 October 2020

Article – Marco Papasidero (2019) Memories and fama sanctitatis in the hagiographies and the canonization process of Gerard Majella (in “Rivista di Storia della Chiesa in Italia”)

(2019) Memories and fama sanctitatis in the hagiographies and the canonization process of Gerard Majella (in “Rivista di Storia della Chiesa in Italia”) Abstract: Our article focuses on the fame […]
27 October 2020

Eleonora Chiais and Magdalena Maria Kubas interviewed on Frida

Our team members Eleonora Chiais and Magdalena Maria Kubas have been interviewed by Frida, the online research forum of the University of Turin. The article is available here.
27 October 2020

At the CIRCe symposium

PI Jenny Ponzo is participating in the CIRCe (‘Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sulla Comunicazione’, University of Turin) symposium, entitled Lines of research on Communication. It will take place online on 10 November 2020, h. 8.45. […]
7 October 2020

At the International Conference “Iconography and Hagiography: Visualizing Holiness” in Rijeka

Team member Francesco Galofaro is participating to the 14th International Conference of Iconographic Studies “Iconography and Hagiography: Visualizing Holiness”, that will be held in Rijeka 15 and 16 October 2020. […]
13 May 2020

Jenny Ponzo’s “The Case of the ‘Offering of Life’ in the Causes for Canonization of Catholic Saints: The Threshold of Self‑Sacrifice”

May 2020, “International Journal for the Semiotics of Law” publishes a paper by Jenny Ponzo (NeMoSanctI ERC Project Principal Investigator) entiteled “The Case of the ‘Offering of Life’ in the […]
7 January 2020

Panel “Agiografie pop: dagli ex voto ai meme” at the conference “Comunicare la santità” (Rome, Jan. 21-23, 2020)

NeMoSanctI is participating in the conference “Comunicare la santità” (‘Communicating Sanctity’), organized by AISSCA-Associazione italiana per lo studio della santità, dei culti e dell’agiografia (‘The Italian Association for the study […]
24 December 2019

Libro – Semiotica e santità. Prospettive interdisciplinari (2019)

Il nostro regalo per il Natale 2019 è un libro di 230 pagine in italiano in cui presentiamo, in maniera divulgativa, i primi risultati delle nostre ricerche sulla semiotica della […]
6 December 2019

Semiotics of Religion

The semiotics of religion was born within the French milieu in the 1970s, as a filiation, on the one hand, of literary semiotics (narratology and the work on narrativity carried […]

NeMoSanctI is a research project carried out at the University of Turin. It studies how models of sanctity have changed after the Second Vatican Council. To this end, it applies a pioneering methodology based on semiotic theory to a wide corpus of normative, judicial, and narrative texts.

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 757314).