Created by Adriana Valerio, Theologian and History Professor at "Federico II" University of Naples, the Archivio per la Storia delle Donne was inspired by two important experiences: The Archivio per la Storia della Pietà, founded in 1951 by Giuseppe de Luca in Naples, and the German Archiv für Philosophie und theologiegeschichtliche Frauenforschung, which was born in Münich in 1984 thanks to Elizabeth Gössmann.
The Archivio per la Storia delle Donne, has been thought to take a special place in the ambit of historical research, by offering absolute unpublished documents pertinent to female writing and thought.
The Archivio per la Storia delle Donne minds to apply new modalities of research in approaching the complexity of the documentation, in a perspective of dynamic exegesis of the sources and of their interpretations. The aim is the starting from a different point of view, the female one, to give a new interpretation to history of languages, philosophy, iconography, music, religion, spirituality, ethics, liturgy, theology and so on.

Sommario del n. I:

• Introduzione all'Archivio per la Storia delle Donne (Adriana Valerio);
• Sancia d'Aragona-Majorca. Da regina di Sicilia e Gerusalemme a monaca di Santa Croce (Mario Gaglione);
• Il Dialogo di Domenica da Paradiso (Rita Librandi e Adriana Valerio);
• Ordinationi et Regole del Sacro Tempio della Scorziata (Giuliana Boccadamo);
• Il Castello dell'Anima di suor Teresa di San Geronimo (Rosa Casapullo);
• Viver vita laica, devota e libera. La “terza via” di Clemenza Ercolani Leoni, vedova bolognese (Sara Cabibbo e Adriana Loffredo);
• Marianne Florenzi Waddington tra panteismo ed hegelismo nelle carte napoletane (Fabiana Cacciapuoti);
• Mieux que six évêques et douze professeurs. Amelie von Lasaulx (1815-1871) et la naissance du vieux-catholicisme en Allemagne (Angela Berlis).