The historiography for a long time has been focused on the issues of the presence of religious people in the royal courts and, more generally, on the intertwining of politics and religion which was still persistent in the modern age. The contribution presented here sheds light on the role of confessors of Maria Carolina, and in particular of Monsignor Anton Bernhard Gürther, who was her spiritual director for over twenty years. Charged with the organisation of religious ceremony for the Queen and in charge of different aspects of the Kingdom’s ecclesiastical policy, Gürther was also responsible for the plans for reform of university studies and reorganization of the libraries of the Bourbon Government. Collector of antiquities, he was then above all a careful operator of cultural mediation, within a network of practices and extensive relationships in Jansenists and Masonic circles between Italy and Austria.

Il confessore della Regina

Novi Chavarria E
2016-01-01

Abstract

The historiography for a long time has been focused on the issues of the presence of religious people in the royal courts and, more generally, on the intertwining of politics and religion which was still persistent in the modern age. The contribution presented here sheds light on the role of confessors of Maria Carolina, and in particular of Monsignor Anton Bernhard Gürther, who was her spiritual director for over twenty years. Charged with the organisation of religious ceremony for the Queen and in charge of different aspects of the Kingdom’s ecclesiastical policy, Gürther was also responsible for the plans for reform of university studies and reorganization of the libraries of the Bourbon Government. Collector of antiquities, he was then above all a careful operator of cultural mediation, within a network of practices and extensive relationships in Jansenists and Masonic circles between Italy and Austria.
2016
978-88-99487-42-3
La storiografia si è ha da tempo soffermata sui temi della presenza dei religiosi nelle corti regie e, più in generale, sull’intreccio tra politica e religione ancora nella piena età moderna. Il contributo che qui si presenta fa luce sul ruolo dei confessori di Maria Carolina e in particolare su monsignor Anton Bernhard Gürther, che ne fu il direttore spirituale per oltre vent’anni. Arbitro della organizzazione del cerimoniale religioso della Regina e incaricato di diversi aspetti della politica ecclesiastica del Regno, Gürther fu responsabile anche dei progetti di riforma degli studi universitari e riordino delle biblioteche del Governo borbonico. Collezionista di antichità, egli fu poi soprattutto un attento operatore della mediazione culturale, all’interno di un network di pratiche e relazioni estese nei circoli giansenisti e massonici tra Italia e Austria.
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