Biography

Dr. Cesare Cuttica is Marie Curie Fellow in Intellectual History in the Department of History. After having completed his doctorate at the European University Institute (Florence), he pursued post-doctoral research both in Europe and the US. He held a short-term Mascioli Research Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington DC) and a one-year Luigi Einaudi Foundation Research Fellowship at various American institutions, including one semester as Visiting Scholar in the Department of History and in the European Union Center of Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh.

In January 2006 Cesare was awarded a Doctoral Exchange Scholarship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (US) and in October 2006 he was granted a Doctoral Research Fellowship at the Scaliger Institute, University of Leiden (Holland).

Role

Marie Curie Fellow in Intellectual History

Cesare’s main research interests lie in the history of political thought in the early modern period in Europe, with a specific focus on England and France. His doctoral thesis was a study of Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) and patriarchalist ideas in seventeenth-century European discourse. He has completed a book-length manuscript to be published with the title of Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) and the Patriotic Monarch: Patriarchalism in Seventeenth-Century Political Thought. His current post-doctoral project explores the political vocabularies and philosophical paradigms English, French and Spanish theorists of kingship employed to defend an unrestrained monarchy in the historically decisive period 1570-1640. This research aims to illuminate an important tradition of political discourse whose doctrines largely contributed to shape the European political landscape in the early modern period and also influenced the thinking of major philosophers in the last three centuries. He is also interested in the study of the various developments of ‘patriotic discourse’ in the early modern era both in political parlance and religious texts. This entails the analysis of patriotism as a political language whose persuasive rhetoric and powerful ideological resonance served opposite causes within the republic of letters.

Cesare has also organised a conference on Absolutism, Monarchism and Despotism. Historiographical issues and theoretical developments in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in European context held at the University of Sussex in July 2010. Drawing on a multinational and multilingual range of sources, the conference has provided a novel approach to the literature on monarchy produced across Europe in the early modern and modern periods. As a result, an edited collection of essays - titled Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe - will be published in November 2011 by Pickering and Chatto Publishers (London). Cesare worked on this project in collaboration with Professor Glenn Burgess (University of Hull). The programme is avalaible at: http://tinyurl.com/Absolutism-Programme

Dr. Cuttica teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in early modern and modern European history, the history of political thought and intellectual history. Recent courses include ‘Early Modern and Modern Republicanism in Europe and North America’ (MA Programme in Intellectual History, ‘Course IH2: Political Ideas’) and ‘The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History’ (MA Programme in Intellectual History).

In the first semester of the academic year 2010/11 Cesare taught as Visiting Fellow (‘Maître de Conférences Invité’) at the University of Paris-8. Courses he taught include Political Ideas in the British Isles ca. 1500-1700: from Thomas More to Mary Astell and Introduction to British History, 1707-1997.

Student Consultation

I will be away for the whole first term 2010/2011

Please note that my new room is in ARTS A: Room A135

Cuttica, Cesare (2012) Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) and the patriotic monarch: patriarchalism in seventeenth-century political thought. Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain . Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9780719083747

Cuttica, Cesare and Burgess, Glenn (2011) Introduction. In: Monarchism and absolutism in early modern Europe. Political and popular culture in the early modern period (4). Pickering & Chatto, London. ISBN 9781848931985

Cuttica, Cesare (2011) An absolutist trio in the early 1630s: Sir Robert Filmer, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Cardin Le Bret and their models of monarchical power. In: Monarchism and absolutism in early modern Europe. Political and popular culture in the early modern period . Pickering & Chatto. ISBN 9781848931985

Cuttica, Cesare (2011) Anti-Jesuit patriotic absolutism: Robert Filmer and French ideas (c. 1580-1630). Renaissance Studies, 25 (4). pp. 559-579. ISSN 0269-1213

Cuttica, Cesare (2011) Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) and the condescension of posterity: historiographical interpretations. Intellectual History Review, 21 (2). pp. 195-208. ISSN 1749-6977

Cuttica, Cesare and Burgess, Glenn, eds. (2011) Monarchism and absolutism in early modern Europe. Political and popular culture in the early modern period . Pickering & Chatto, London. ISBN 9781848931985

Cuttica, Cesare (2009) A complex journey through the British Isles. History of European Ideas, 35 (4). pp. 495-502. ISSN 0191-6599

Cuttica, Cesare (2008) Thomas Scott of Canterbury (1566-1635): Patriot, civic radical, puritan. History of European Ideas, 34 (4). pp. 475-489. ISSN 0191-6599

Cuttica, Cesare (2007) A strong antidote against the Jesuitical disease: Le Tocsin. Omslag. Bulletin van de Universiteitbibliotheek Leiden en het Scaliger Instituut, 1.

Cuttica, Cesare (2007) Kentish cousins at odds: Filmer's Patriarcha and Thomas Scott's Defence of freeborn Englishmen. History of Political Thought, 28 (4). pp. 599-616. ISSN 0143-781X

Cuttica, Cesare (2006) Sir Francis Kynaston: The importance of the 'Nation' for a 17th-century English royalist. History of European Ideas, 32 (2). pp. 139-161. ISSN 0191-6599

Cuttica, Cesare (2004) L'Idea di Europa. La difficile definizione di un concetto sfuggente. Il Politico, 69 (2). pp. 375-390. ISSN 0032-325X

Cuttica, Cesare (2003) Un intellettuale moderno: John Selden. Il Giornale Critico della Filosofia Italiana, 23. pp. 298-314. ISSN 0017-0089

Cuttica, Cesare (2002) Il primato della politica: Algernon Sidney commonwealthman. In: Ideali repubblicani in età moderna. Memorie e atti di convegni . ETS, pp. 145-160. ISBN 9788846706072

Cuttica, Cesare (2001) Riflessioni inaspettate. Robert Filmer, Vertuous wife e Caccia alle Streghe. Annali della Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, 35. pp. 101-145. ISSN 0531-9870