Università Roma Tre

After addressing the main issues relating to the political-religious, cultural and social structures arising from the break-up of Christian unity in the early sixteenth century, the course aims to deepen the topic of justice in Christian thought of the 16th and 17th centuries. How has Judeo-Christian Europe conceptualized and symbolically, allegorically and iconographically represented Justice? In what different ways Catholic culture and Protestant culture have faced and resolved conceptual nodes of fundamental importance such as the punishment of the guilty, mercy, grace, revenge, forgiveness, the gap between human justice and divine justice, the impartiality of the judges?

Elena Bonora, La Controriforma, Roma-Bari, Laterza
Luise Schorn Schütte, La Riforma protestante, Bologna, Il Mulino
Adriano Prosperi, Giustizia bendata. Percorsi storici di un’immagine, Torino, Einaudi.