Papers and presentations

2025/2026

Papers and presentations

• Manuel Capomaccio, “Arab Christian Dragomans and the Custody of the Holy Land: Family Networks, Mediation, and Coexistence in Ottoman Jerusalem (17th–18th Centuries)”, paper presented at the 4th Conference on Arab-Christian Studies, Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome 30/10/2026
• Mattia Corso (with Anne Mariss, University of Regensburg), “Exporting the Sacred: Pilgrim-Merchants between the Holy Land and the Holy Roman Empire in the Early Eighteenth Century ”, paper presented at the international conference Rechnen mit dem Seelenheil Heilsökonomie und Wallfahrt in der Frühen Neuzeit, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 19-20/10/2026
• Manuel Capomaccio, “Parole in Custodia: dragomanni, frati e pratiche di mediazione nella Gerusalemme ottomana”, paper presented at the roundtable Trasmissione del sapere within the Summer School Lingue dell’Oriente Cristiano (3rd Edition), Salesian Pontifical University, Rome 16/07/2026
• Mattia Corso, “Wearing the Holy Land: Portable Presence and the Lives of Holy Sepulchre Measurements”, paper presented at the international workshop Mapping Dissonant Objects WS2: Dissonant Objects and Religious Material Engagement at Play, Humboldt University, Berlin 17-19/06/2026
• Mattia Corso, “Da questua francescana a impresa curiale: la colletta per i Luoghi Santi nel pontificato di Urbano VIII”, paper presented at the international conference Dal trionfo al tracollo? La Roma barberiniana e il mondo (1623 – 1644), Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani, Fondazione Camillo Caetani di Sermoneta, Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome 10-12/06/2026
• Inês de Sá and Rebecca Carnevali, “Creating a Database on Maritime Routes: The Holylab-DB, its Challenges and Prospects”, paper presented at the 7th Mediterranean Maritime Network Conference, panel Maritime Networks and the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land: Information, Piracy, and Trade (17th century), Zadar, 26/05/2026
• Antonio Iodice, “Commissariats and Risk Management in the Polycentric Mediterranean Spaces (1650–1700)”, paper presented at the 7th Mediterranean Maritime Network Conference, panel Maritime Networks and the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land: Information, Piracy, and Trade (17th century), Zadar, 26/05/2026
• Felicita Tramontana, “Pathways to Jerusalem: Religious Networks and Maritime Infrastructure in the Mediterranean”, paper presented at the 7th Mediterranean Maritime Network Conference, panel Maritime Networks and the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land: Information, Piracy, and Trade (17th century), Zadar, 26/05/2026
• Sandra Toffolo, “On Board Ships and in Harbours: The Circulation of Information through Pilgrimage Networks in the Early Modern Mediterranean”, paper presented at the 7th Mediterranean Maritime Network Conference, panel Maritime Networks and the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land: Information, Piracy, and Trade (17th century), Zadar, 26/05/2026
• Manuel Capomaccio, “Pirates at Sea, Friars on Trial: Navigating Piracy and Diplomacy through Arabic Legal and Financial Documents in 17th-Century Jerusalem”, paper presented at the 7th Mediterranean Maritime Network Conference, panel Maritime Networks and the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land: Information, Piracy, and Trade (17th century), Zadar, 26/05/2026
• Manuel Capomaccio, “Bible-Centered Arabic Grammar in Ǧirmānūs Farḥāt’s Baḥṯ al-maṭālib wa-ḥaṯṯ al-ṭālib (‘The Pursuit of the Answers and the Encouragement of the Student’)”, paper presented at the international workshop The Bible in Middle Eastern Manuscript Traditions, Tor Vergata University of Rome-Pontificio Ateneo Sant’Anselmo, Rome, 22-24/04/2026
• Felicita Tramontana, “Da Venezia a Gerusalemme: Il viaggio del Guardiano del Monte Sion attraverso i libri di conto della Custodia di Terra Santa (1600-1630)”, paper presented at the conference Venezia e Gerusalemme tra Medioevo ed età moderna, Scuola Grande di San Marco, Venice, 24-25/03/2026
• Antonio Iodice and Alessia De Benedictis, “The Joys and Sorrows of Data Normalization: Working with Sources from the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, XVII-XVIII Centuries”, paper presented at the 22nd Conference on Information and Research Science Connecting to Digital and Library Science (IRCDL 2026), University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, Modena, 19/02/2026
• Felicita Tramontana, “American Silver and Mediterranean Sardines for Jerusalem: The Transport of Supplies for the Custody of the Holy Land during the 17th century“, paper presented at the Facultad de Geografía e Historia del’Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 03/02/2026
• Felicita Tramontana, “Accounting And Organization: The St. Saviour Monastery in 17th-Century Jerusalem”, paper presented at the Frankfurter Frühneuzeit Kolloquium, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 16/12/2025
• Antonio Iodice and José Araneda, “Los flujos de las limosnas desde los Andes a Jerusalén (s. XVII)”, paper presented at the seminar Circulación económica y misionera entre América y el Mediterráneo (s. XVI-XVIII), Bogotà, 27/11/2025
• Antonio Iodice, “Money and Devotion. The Financing of the Holy Land through the Spanish Monarchy and Mediterranean Networks (1650-1700)”, paper presented at the conference XX Jornadas Internacionales de Historia de las Monarquías Ibéricas (RED COLUMNARIA), panel The Custody of the Holy Land and the Spanish Monarchy’s Imperial System: Worlds Connected, Medellín, 20/11/2025
• Felicita Tramontana, “Imperial Patronage and Financial Control: The Spanish Crown and the Administration of Alms in the Custody of the Holy Land (17th Century)”, paper presented at the conference XX Jornadas Internacionales de Historia de las Monarquías Ibéricas (RED COLUMNARIA), panel The Custody of the Holy Land and the Spanish Monarchy’s Imperial System: Worlds Connected, Medellín, 20/11/2025
• Antonio Iodice and Alessia De Benedictis, “The Joys and Sorrows of Data Normalization: Working with Sources from the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, XVII-XVIII Centuries”, paper presented at the HOLYLAB and MICOLL 2nd Joint Meeting, Rome, 07/11/2025
• Felicita Tramontana and Inês De Sá, “La creación de la base de datos HOLYLAB-DB: ¿Transcribir o transformar las fuentes históricas?”, paper presented at Transcribir América “Errores, malentendidos y ‘mala transcripción’ de América, Roma Tre University, Rome, 21-23/10/2025
• Manuel Capomaccio, “‘Turn to Them the Other Cheek Also’: Franciscan Friars and Christian Intercommunal Dynamics in 16th- and 17th-Century Jerusalem”, paper presented at Turkologentag 2025. Fifth European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, 18-20/09/2025
• Mattia Corso and Felicita Tramontana, “Il potere del contatto. Devozione, guarigione e cultura materiale in Italia in età moderna“, participation in roundtable, Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, 17/09/2025
• Mattia Corso, “Sacred earth, sacred objects: The production of loca Sancta Agnus Dei in the seventeenth-Century Franciscan custody of the Holy Land”, paper presented at the conference Rethinking Holy Materiality: Bones and Other ‘Stuff’, With and Without Reliquaries (The Middle Ages and Beyond), University of Turku & Åbo Akademi University, Turku, 10-11/09/2025
• Manuel Capomaccio, “Middle Arabic in Franciscan Accounting Documents from the 18th Century”, paper presented at the 7th AIMA Conference. Corpora and Micro-Corpora in the Study of Middle Arabic and Mixed Varieties of Arabic: From the Qur’an to the Digital Humanities, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Naples, 08-12/09/2025

Panels

• “Maritime Networks and the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land: Information, Piracy, and Trade (17th century) – part 1“, panel convened for the 7th Mediterranean Maritime Network Conference, Zadar, Croatia, 25-29 May 2026 – Panelists: Prof. Megan C. Armstrong (McMaster University), Dr. Manuel Capomaccio (Roma Tre University), Dr. Matteo Calcagni (University of Pisa), Dr. Sandra Toffolo (Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico of Trento).
• “Maritime Networks and the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land: Information, Piracy, and Trade (17th century) – part 2“, panel convened for the 7th Mediterranean Maritime Network Conference, Zadar, Croatia, 25-29 May 2026 – Prof. Felicita Tramontana (Roma Tre University), Dr. Antonio Iodice (Roma Tre University), Inês de Sá (Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico of Trento), Dr. Rebecca Carnevali (independent scholar), Prof. Karen Melvin (Bates College).
• “The Custody of the Holy Land and the Spanish Monarchy’s Imperial System: Worlds Connected”, panel convened for XX Jornadas Internacionales de Historia de las Monarquías Ibéricas (RED COLUMNARIA) – Medellin, Colombia, 19-21 November 2025 – Panelists: Prof. Felicita Tramontana (Roma Tre University), Dr. Antonio Iodice (Roma Tre University), Dr. Diana Barreto Ávila (Roma Tre University), Dr. José Araneda-Riquelme (Roma Tre University).

2024/2025

Papers and presentations

• Antonio Iodice, “A Global Mendicant Corporation: The Custody of the Holy Land and Its European
  Commissariats, Seventeenth–Eighteenth Centuries”, paper presented at the World Economic History Conference (WEHC), Lund University, Lund, 28/07-01/08/2025
• Inês de Sá, “Bases de dados online como ferramenta para a investigação na Época Moderna: O projeto Holylab e o confronto entre registos históricos e digitais”, paper presented at the X Encontro de Jovens Investigadores em História Moderna, Universidade do Minho, Braga, 26-28/06/2025
• Claudio Ferlan, “From Kitchen to Conscience: Food Discipline and Institutional Control in the Early Modern Society of Jesus”, paper presented at the ERC HOLYLAB Workshop on Early-Modern Missionary Orders, Roma Tre University, Rome, 09/06/2025
• Antonio Iodice, “The Custody of the Holy Land: a Model of One-Way Euro-Ottoman Exchange Relationship?”, paper presented at the Early Modern Euro-Ottoman Exchange Workshop, Venice International University, Venice, 23-24/05/2025
• Antonio Iodice, “Solvency and Devotion: Fundraising Networks and Cash Flows Management in the 17th-Century Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land”, paper presented at the Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar, Istituto Datini, Prato, 16-17/05/2025
• Felicita Tramontana, “Controlling at a Distance: Franciscan Accounting in Jerusalem in the Early Global Era”, paper presented at the STVDIO Seminars of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick, 13/05/2025
• Mattia Corso, “From Jerusalem to the Spanish Americas: Indulgenced Objects and Alms Campaigns for the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land in the Late Seventeenth Century”, paper presented at the Tavola Ovale di Storia Moderna organized by Massimo Rospocher and Sandra Toffolo FBK- ISIG, Trento, 12/03/2025
• José Araneda Riquelme and Mattia Corso, “From the Holy Land to the New World: Franciscan Almsgiving and Devotional Objects between the Middle East, Rome, and Spanish America (17th century)”, paper presented at the conference Transnational Circulation of Devotional Objects through Religious Orders: between the Iberian World and Rome organized by the ProJestArt Research Group, session Religious Agents Connecting the Iberian World to Holy Land and Rome, Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome, 04-05/02/2025
• Felicita Tramontana, Antonio Iodice, and José Araneda, “Holy Cash Flows. La circolazione di denaro spagnolo verso la Terra Santa (1650-1700)”, paper presented at the conference Il commercio dell’argento spagnolo nel Mediterraneo in età moderna: la finanza italiana e la catena globale dei metalli preziosi (secoli XVI-XVII), panel Verso Levante: circolazione e negozio delle pezze da otto dall’America al Mediterraneo Orientale, CNR – Ecole Française, Rome, 09-10/01/2025
• Felicita Tramontana, “Franciscan Account Books as a Source for the Study of Early Modern Mobility”, paper presented at the workshop Digital Humanities and Mobility Studies: An ERC Perspective, Padua, 03/10/2024
• Sandra Toffolo, “On the Use of Digital Humanities for the History of Early Modern Mobility: An Historiographical Overview”, paper presented at the workshop Digital Humanities and Mobility Studies: An ERC Perspective, Padua, 03/10/2024
• Rebecca Carnevali and Antonio Iodice, “Cash, People, and Objects’ Simultaneous Mobility analysed through HOLYLAB, the Database of the Custody of the Holy Land, 17th-18th Centuries”, paper presented at the workshop Digital Humanities and Mobility Studies: An ERC Perspective, Padua, 03/10/2024

2023/2024

Papers and presentations

• Rebecca Carnevali and Antonio Iodice, “Alternative or Complementary Views?: New Mediterranean and Atlantic Connections from HOLYLAB, the Database of the Custody of the Holy Land, 17th-18th Centuries“, paper presented at the 9th IMHA Congress of Maritime History, panel New Perspectives of Mediterranean Maritime Connections with the Atlantic World (17th-18th c.), Busan, 21/08/2024
• Felicita Tramontana, “In the pirate nest: Pirates, corsairs and the circulation of friars and objects across the Mediterranean”, paper presented at the 9th IMHA Congress of Maritime History, panel The Challenges of an Organizational Network in the Early Modern Globalized Landscape: Cost-Effectiveness, Smuggling, Travelling and Shipping in the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, Busan, 20/08/2024
• Mattia Corso, “Illicit shipments across the ocean: The Custody of the Holy Land and the campaign against the global trade in counterfeit holy objects in the eighteenth century”, paper presented at the 9th IMHA Congress of Maritime History, panel The Challenges of an Organizational Network in the Early Modern Globalized Landscape: Cost-Effectiveness, Smuggling, Travelling and Shipping in the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, Busan, 20/08/2024
• Sandra Toffolo, “Preparing for a sea voyage: The practicalities of early modern voyages to the Holy Land”, paper presented at the 9th IMHA Congress of Maritime History, panel The Challenges of an Organizational Network in the Early Modern Globalized Landscape: Cost-Effectiveness, Smuggling, Travelling and Shipping in the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, Busan, 20/08/2024
• Antonio Iodice, “Tracking and Pricing Long-Distance Geographic Mobility of Franciscan Friars and Commodities in Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean”, paper presented at the 9th IMHA Congress of Maritime History, panel The Challenges of an Organizational Network in the Early Modern Globalized Landscape: Cost-Effectiveness, Smuggling, Travelling and Shipping in the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, Busan, 20/08/2024
• Sandra Toffolo, “Moving in new directions: The mobilities turn and its effects on the study of early modern mobility”, paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations – DH 2024, panel Grounding Truth: Critical and Data-Driven Approaches to the History of Travel, Arlington (VA), 08/08/2024
• Felicita Tramontana, “The St. Saviour Monastery in Jerusalem and its Participation in Local Economic Networks (17th Century)”, paper presented at the Early Modern Ottoman Studies (EMOS), Conference II – Institutions, Networks, and Economic Change in the Early Modern Ottoman World, panel Franciscans in the Early Modern Ottoman World, Sabancı University, Istanbul, 28/06/2024
• Manuel Capomaccio, “Harmony and Dissonance: Exploring the Interplay between the Franciscan Custody of The Holy Land and the Jerusalem Sharia Court in the 17th Century”, paper presented at the Early Modern Ottoman Studies (EMOS) Conference II – Institutions, Networks, and Economic Change in the Early Modern Ottoman World, panel Franciscans in the Early Modern Ottoman World, Sabancı University, Istanbul, 28/06/2024
• Antonio Iodice, “(Poor) Accounting for God: Solvability and Money Transfer in the Custody of the Holy Land’s Franciscan Network (XVII century)”, paper presented at the Economic and Business History Society and Association of Business Historians Annual Conference, panel I b Religion and Enterprise, York (UK), 27/06/2024
• Cristina Setti, “Amministrare il sacro in età moderna: Network statali, imperiali e religiosi tra Europa e Levante”, paper presented at the Tavola Ovale di Storia Moderna organized by Massimo Rospocher and Sandra Toffolo FBK- ISIG, Trento, 27/06/2024
• Antonio Iodice, “A Mendicant Network: the Custody of the Holy Land and its European Commissariats in the Seventeenth Century”, paper presented at the 6th International Conference of the Mediterranean Maritime History Network (MMHN), organized by the Centre of Maritime History, Institute For Mediterranean Studies (IMS-FORTH), Rethymno (Greece) 27-31/05/2024
• Mattia Corso, “Between Devotion and Exploitation: Natural Sites and the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”, paper presented at the Thirteenth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity, Palermo, 14-16/05/2024
• Sandra Toffolo, “Situating Encounter in Urban Spaces: The Case of Renaissance Venice”, paper presented at the conference Objects and Spaces of Encounter in Renaissance Italy, FBK-ISIG, Trento, 15-17/04/2024
• Felicita Tramontana and Hélène Vu Thanh, “Autour des livres de comptes en contexte missionnaire (Palestine, Japon)”, paper presented at the seminar of the EHESS Prosélytismes, Paris, 03/05/2024
• Felicita Tramontana, “No Global? The Global Expansion of Catholicism and the Custody of the Holy Land through Franciscan Account Books (Seventeenth Century)”, paper presented at the international conference Accounting Practices and Religious Orders in Missionary Territories, Roma Tre University – Istituto Svizzero, Rome, 24-25/01/2024
• Cristina Setti, “Venice and the Custody of the Holy Land between the 16th and the 17th centuries. Political and financial transitions on the Mediterranean and Levantine area”, paper presented at the international conference The Venetian State, the Greek Territories and their Stories (13th-18th centuries), conference in Honour of Anastasia Papadia-Lala, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, 01-03/11/2023
• Sandra Toffolo, “The Material Culture of Mobility: the Books of a Pilgrim between Italy, Switzerland, and the Holy Land”, paper presented at the conference Imprimere l’evento. La stampa come mass medium tra Italia e Germania (origini-1515), FBK-ISIG, Trento, 25-26/09/2023

Panels

• “The Challenges of an Organizational Network in the Early Modern Globalized Landscape: Cost-Effectiveness, Smuggling, Travelling and Shipping in the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land”, panel convened for the 9th IMHA Congress of Maritime History – Busan, Korea,19-24 August 2024 – Panelists: Prof. Felicita Tramontana (Roma Tre University), Dr. Antonio Iodice (Roma Tre University), Dr. Corso (Roma Tre University), Dr. Sandra Toffolo (Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico of Trento).
• “Franciscans in the Early Modern Ottoman World“, panel convened for the Early Modern Ottoman Studies (EMOS), Conference II – Institutions, Networks, and Economic Change in the Early Modern Ottoman World – Istanbul, Turkey, 27-29 June 2024 – Panelists: Prof. Felicita Tramontana (Roma Tre University), Dr. Manuel Capomaccio (Roma Tre University), Prof. Megan C. Armstrong (McMaster University), Dr. Emese Muntan (Austrian Academy of Sciences).

2022/2023

Papers and presentations

• Cristina Setti, “Comptabilité et commerce du sacré au XVII^e siècle. Pratiques globales et locales d’échange et de consommation dans les livres des charges et decharges de la Custodia Terrae Sanctae”, paper presented at the 11^th Summer School of Economic History / 11^e École d’été d’histoire économique Les espaces du commerce aux époques médiévale et moderne. Institutions, échelles et dynamiques, organized by the Laboratoire Framespa of the University Jean Jaurès of Toulouse, the CNRS and other French academic institutions and university departments, Susa, 27-29/08/2023
• Felicita Tramontana, “The Custody of the Holy Land and the “Globalization of Catholicism” (17^th-18^th centuries)”, paper presented at the New European College, Bucharest, 26/06/2023
• Felicita Tramontana, “Libri Mastri della Custodia di Terra Santa: approcci metodologici e prospettive di ricerca”, paper presented at the Tavola Ovale di Storia Moderna organized by Massimo Rospocher and Sandra Toffolo, FBK-ISIG, Trento, 21/04/2023
• Felicita Tramontana, “A Mobility Infrastructure? The Commissariats of the Holy Land through Their Account Books”, paper presented at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, panel Globalizing Catholicism Through the Holy Land Commissariats organized by Megan C. Armstrong, San Juan, 11/03/2023
• Fabrizio Filioli Uranio, “L’Obra Pía de los Santos Lugares e la Custodia di Terra Santa: la circolazione globale delle elemosine e del credito nella Monarchia spagnola (secoli XV-XVIII)”, paper presented at the conference 1622. Essere universali nel mondo cattolico. Monarchie iberiche e Papato tra gestione del sacro, santità, pratiche missionarie ed evangelizzazione, organized by Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma (EEHAR-CSIC), Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani (INSR), Pontificia Università Lateranense, Red Columnaria/COREDEX, Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea (ISEM-CNR) and Università Roma Tre (Dipartimenti DSU e FILCOSPE), Rome, 30/11/2022-2/12/2022

2021/2022

Papers and presentations

• Felicita Tramontana, “Supplying the Mission. The Reformed Franciscans in Palestine and the Arrival of Friars, Food and Faily Objects (17^th century)”, paper presented at the conference Reisen und Religion im (langen) 18. Jahrhundert, Halle, 28-31/08/2022
• Felicita Tramontana, “The Economic Organization of the Custody of the Holy Land through its Account Books”, paper presented at the Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit, University of Jena, 02/02/2022