CONTROLLO DELLE ANIME E GOVERNO DEI TERRITORI RELIGIONE, POLITICA E SOCIETÀ: VENT'ANNI DI STUDI IN ITALIA.

The paper tries to provide an analysis and some reflections on the space that studies relating to "Ecclesiastical Control", "control of consciences and ecclesiastical organization in the social context", inquisition and heresies, cults, identity and holiness, politics and religion have occupied in the Italian historiographical panorama of the last twenty years. This analysis was drawn using the metaphor of the "parable", as already done by other scholars and in other fields, to indicate the alternating historiographical fortunes of some specific themes within this area of studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]