About
Riccarda Suitner is currently a fellow of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Merit Foundation) at the Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt.
Her research interests and publications lie in 2 main areas:
- The Intellectual History of the XVII and XVIII Centuries, in particular Radical Enlightenment and Clandestine Literature, Italian and German Enlightenment, Cartesianism and Demonology. In relation to these fields of research, she has just completed a monographic study about the clandestine circulation of “Dialogues of the Dead” among the German student community of the early XVIII Century.
- The Renaissance History of Medicine and Theology. She is currently working on a monograph that takes into consideration the links between medicine and the Radical Reformation in Europe.
Publications
- Clemente Baroni Cavalcabò, L’impotenza del demonio di trasportare a talento per l’aria da un luogo all’altro i corpi umani, Rovereto, Marchesani, 1753, ristampa anastatica a cura di Riccarda Suitner, Bologna 2013.
- Un exemplaire retrouvé du De tribus impostoribus, «La lettre clandestine», XVII (2009), pp. 205-9.
- Ateismo e pietismo in un dialogo anonimo della Frühaufklärung, in Dal cartesianismo all’illuminismo radicale, a c. di Carlo Borghero e Claudio Buccolini, Firenze 2010, pp. 263-79.
- Uno scontro nel regno dei morti: Descartes e Rüdiger, in Immagini filosofiche e interpretazioni storiografiche del cartesianismo, a c. di Carlo Borghero e Antonella Del Prete, Firenze 2011, pp. 141-64.
- Der Krieg der Biographen. Zu den ersten literarischen Darstellungen der Leben von Christian Thomasius und August Hermann Francke, in Die Vita als Vermittlerin von Wissenschaft und Werk. Form- und Funktionsanalytische Untersuchungen zu frühneuzeitlichen Biographien von Gelehrten, Wissenschaftlern, Schriftstellern und Künstlern, hg. von Karl Enenkel und Claus Zittel, Berlin-Münster-Wien-Zürich-London 2013, pp. 295-327.
- Un témoignage inédit du débat italien sur le Traité des trois imposteurs, «La lettre clandestine», XXI (2013), 369-75.
- La diffusione clandestina di manuali di magia nella Germania del primo Settecento: il caso della Pneumatologia occulta, «Historia philosophica», XI (2013), forthcoming.
- Jus naturae und natura humana bei Andreas Rüdiger und in August Friedrich Müllers handschriftlichem Kommentar zu den Institutiones eruditionis, in Natur, hg. von Martin Mulsow u. Friedrich Vollhardt, Hamburg 2014, forthcoming.
- Dämonologie und Zauberliteratur in Halle zu Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts: der Fall der Pneumatologia occulta, in Kampf um die Aufklärung? Neue Perspektiven auf Halle im 18. Jahrhundert, hg. von Renko Geffarth, Markus Meumann u. Holger Zaunstöck, Berlin 2014, forthcoming.
- Natural Law and Theory of Affects: the Role of Anger in Christian Thomasius’ Sittenlehre, in Discourses of Anger in the Early Modern Period, ed. by Karl Enenkel and Anita Traininger, Leiden/Boston 2014, forthcoming.
- The Powerlessness of the Devil. Scientific Knowledge and Demonology in Clemente Baroni Cavalcabò, inKnowledge of Religion as Profanation. Cross-cultural Comparison, Technical Devices and Critical Scholarship, ed. by Martin Mulsow and Asaph Ben-Tov, New York-Boston-Berlin 2014, forthcoming.
