Stefania Tutino
University of California, Los Angeles · History
Active 1993–2026
About
Stefania Tutino is a Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Personnel at the UCLA Department of History. She holds the UCLA College of Letters and Science Endowed Term Chair in Early Modern European History, Arts, and Culture. Her research focuses on Early Modern Europe, exploring the historical developments, cultural transformations, and artistic expressions of the period. As a prominent scholar in her field, she contributes to the understanding of European history through her academic leadership and specialized expertise in early modern European history, arts, and culture.
Research topics
- Philosophy
- Computer Science
- Political Science
- Art
- Sociology
- Aesthetics
- Environmental ethics
- Art history
- Law
- Epistemology
Selected publications
Sectarian Conflicts, Ideological Biases, and Professional Standards
The American Historical Review · 2026-01-01
article1st authorCorrespondingAbstract This article is about politics, history, and the politics of history. It centers on the Dominican friar Abraham Bzowski, or Bzovius (1567–1637). Born in Poland, Bzovius in the early seventeenth century moved to Rome, where Pope Paul V entrusted him with the task of continuing Cesare Baronio’s Annales Ecclesiastici. Baronio’s last volume was published in 1607, the same year as Baronio’s death, and reached the year 1198. Bzovius was supposed to pick up where Baronio had left off, ideally taking the Annalesup to the seventeenth century. Bzovius produced twelve additional volumes in his life: Virtually all of them were controversial; most of them had to undergo several rounds of revisions and emendations; and a few of them were never authorized for publication, thus remaining in manuscript. This article discusses the conflicts that Bzovius’s work provoked. Even though Bzovius’s name might be unknown even to the majority of early modern historians today, his case is well worth studying because it elucidates crucial aspects of the relationship between history writing and politics in seventeenth-century Catholicism. Understanding this relationship, in turn, provides insightful considerations on the ways in which history writing and politics are intertwined today.
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2026-01-29
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingJournal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · 2024-01-01
article1st authorCorrespondingExamining the intellectual, cultural, and social implications of reading visual and bodily manifestations as signs of guilt and innocence means grappling with the relationship between what is true and what is credible, and consequently with the problem of how to make judgments when lacking absolute certainty. This essay explores this problem by focusing on the afterlife of Augustine's notion of credulitas, or “belief,” in two parallel but intertwined areas: moral theology and legal thought. In both cases, absolute certainty was the gold standard against which moral actions and legal judgments were traditionally held. Yet moral theologians and legal scholars knew that sometimes absolute certainty was impossible to reach, so how could they form decisions that were both epistemologically correct and morally safe? The answers that theologians and jurists gave were different, and yet they were linked with and responded to each other in complex and interesting ways.
Religions · 2023-05-06
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingGeneralizations are always difficult to make, often imprecise, and sometimes misleading [...]
2023-04-26
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book-chapterThe International Symposia on Jesuit Studies · 2023-11-30
articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding2023-01-01
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingCambridge University Press eBooks · 2023-09-27 · 2 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingTo think about Jesuit theology in terms of a distinctive “school” means to grapple with fundamental issues in the history of early modern theology and in the development of modern Western thought more generally. On the one hand, the world of post-Reformation theologians was assuming an increasingly globalized, plural, and multi-faceted dimension, and the Society of Jesus was theologically, intellectually, and structurally better equipped than other religious orders to engage with the manifold challenges of this rapidly widening context. On the other hand, the Society made a sustained effort to keep this multiplicity solidly tied around a specific theological, and not just institutional or cultural, unity. The fact that the Society was distinctively subject to, and thrived on, this tension between centripetal and centrifugal forces is at the core of the Jesuits’ theological identity, which is itself characterized by a complex and intellectually vibrant tension between unity and multiplicity.
2023-04-26
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Frequent coauthors
- 11 shared
Susannah Brietz Monta
- 11 shared
Anne Dillon
Cavendish Hospital
- 11 shared
Katy Gibbons
University of Portsmouth
- 11 shared
Alana Harris
- 11 shared
Salvador Ryan
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
- 11 shared
Michael Questier
- 11 shared
Liesbeth Corens
Queen Mary University of London
- 11 shared
Alison Shell
University College London
Awards & honors
- individual faculty fellowship from the National Endowment fo…
- Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship
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