FLAVIO RURALE
Associate Professor
Personal Informations
Born in Monza (Mi), 20th July 1958
Citizenship: Italian
Udine, vicolo Florio, 2
*: flavio.rurale [at] uniud.it
+39 0432556180 │+39 3395489229
Professional Appointments
2005 to present
University of Udine
Associate Professor (Early Modern History, M-STO/02)
1995 to 2005 University of Udine
Researcher (Early Modern History, M-STO/02)
1986 to 1987
Substitute teacher in literary and history subjects in High School
1982 to 1986
Worker in mechanical workshop
Education Background
2016-2018
National Scientific Qualification, full professor
(validity 19-07-2018 to19-07-2028)
2012
National Scientific Qualification, full professor
(State Council Decree n. 5287/2017; validity 14-01-2019 to14-01-2029)
1992 to 1994
University of Milan
PostDoctorate Research Grant
1991 University of Milan
PhD in History of European Society
1985
University of Milan
Degree in Letters
Other infomations
Academic appointments
2016 to 2022
University of Trieste-University of Udine
Master’s Degree Coordinator : “ Studi storici. Dall’Antico al Contemporaneo”
2001to 2013
University of Udine
Secretary of PhD in “History: Structures and cultures of border regions”
Member of PhD College
2013 to present
University of Trieste-University of Udine
PhD in “History of societies, institutions, and thought from medieval to contemporary age”
2001to 2013
University of Udine
PhD in “History: Structures and cultures of border regions”
Research activity Coordinator and Participation in national research programmes (PRIN)
2014 to 2017
Institute of Jesuit Sources-Boston College (USA)
Coordinator of the international research group on:
The Acquaviva S.I. Project: Claudio Acquaviva’s Generalate (1581-1615) and the Emergence of Modern Catholicism
2010 to 2012
Participant national co-funded research programme
2006 to 2008
Participant national co-funded research programme
2003 to 2005
Participant national co-funded research programme
1999 to 2001
Participant national co-funded research programme
1998-2000
Participant national co-funded research programme
Membership of Scientific Committees
Advisor of the journal: "Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu"
Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal: “Rivista di letteratura religiosa italiana”
Member of the Scientific Committee: “GATE” (“Gregorian Archives Texts Editing”), Historical Archive of the “Pontifical University ‘Gregoriana’” (Roma-Italy)
Member of the Scientific Committee: “Istituto Paschini” (Udine-Italy)
“Investigador de referencia” of the Universitary Institut: "La Corte en Europa"-(IULCE) Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Foreign International Conferences
Speaker at the following Foreign International Conferences:
-Madrid, Universidad Autonoma, May 2-4, 2023, El mercado de la opinión pública en los conflictos de la Monarquía Hispánica en Italia (siglos XVI-XVII):
paper: “Volantinare per le vie di Milano: momenti della controversia giurisdizionale di fine Cinquecento”;
-Boston (USA), Boston College, August 1-4, 2022, The Jesuits and the Church in History:
paper: "Jesuits and Papal Nepotism in 17th century: the opinion of general father Gian Paolo Oliva”;
-Madrid, Universidad Autonoma, October 22-23, 2020, XIV Seminario internacional “La Corte en Europa”, "La lucha por la hegemonía mundial. Entre política y religión: jesuitas, castellanos y portugueses":
paper: “L'affetto disordinato verso le patrie": i gesuiti del '600 tra ideale universalistico e prassi "nazionalista";
Madrid, Universidad Comillas, June 20-22, 2011 (member of the scientific committee), "Los Jesuitas. Religion, politica y educacion (siglos XVI-XVIII)":
paper: "La politica cortesana en la Compañía de Jesus" ;
Madrid, Universidad Autonoma, December 13-16, 2010, "La Corte en Europa. Politica y religion (siglos XVI-XVIII)":
paper: "Ordini religiosi e politica nelle corti italiane del XVII secolo”: la teoria, le pratiche";
Versailles (Paris), September 2426, 2009, "Les cours en Europe: bilan historiographique":
paper: "Court and Religion in the early modern catholic Europe";
Cork (Ireland), University of Cork, Dep. of Music, May 1819, 2007, “Sexualities, textualities, art and music in early modern Italy”:
paper: “Aristocratic culture and sexuality. Some notes about prelates and religious clergy in Sixtheenth Century italian courts”;
Rome, American Academy in Rome, December 12-14, 2003, “Politics and Society in Spanish Italy”:
paper: “Male Religious Orders in SixteenthCentury Italy”;
Santiago (Cile), University of Santiago, July 1418, 2003, 51° Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, "El primer siglo jesuita en el Virreinato del Perù, 1587-1667":
paper: "The european point of view: culture and politics in the Society of Jesus under Claudio Acquaviva (1581-1615)";
Paris, Château de Maisons-Laffitte, December 1, 2001, Société d’étude du XVII siècle, "La Cour entre la Grâce du prince et celle de Dieu":
paper : "Les religieux à la Cour et la conscience du prince" ;
Barcelona, Sociedad Estatal para la Conmemoración de los Centenarios de Felipe II y Carlos V, November 2328, 1998, “Felipe II y el Mediteraneo”,
paper: “Politics and Religion in Spanish Milanesado”;
Toronto (Canada), Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, October 22-26, 1998: “Jesuits History under Everard Mercurian, 1573-1580”:
paper: "The Jesuits in the North Italy: Religion, Rhetoric and Politics";
London, University of London, dep. of “Italian History and Culture”, February 24, 1994,:
paper: “Regular clergy in the Italian Courts of the Ancien Regime”.