Denise Bezzina, former member of MICOLL’s team and currently Research fellow in Medieval History at the University of Genoa, has just been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for her PatriFem project “Charting Female Property and Patrimonial Rights in Law and Practice Across Western Europe (12th-16th Centuries)”. Congratulations on this amazing achievement! Denise will analyze the…
Another great success for one of MICOLL’s team members! Our postdoc Jake Dyble won the STARS Grant (Supporting TAlent in ReSearch) of the University of Padua with his project “Avania: Commerce, Orientalism, and Law in Early Modern Europe” (AvCOL). Well done! The STARS call positively pushes candidates to pursue and train for excellence overall, to familiarize with…
It is with great pleasure that we announce that the PhD thesis prize “Sul confine: multiculturalismo e plurilinguismo nella ricerca” of the University for Foreigners of Siena was recently awarded to our Davide Basaldella for his thesis “Atti notarili maltesi del XV e XVI secolo. Edizione, commento linguistico e glossario” (SSD L-FIL-LET/12). Congratulations!!! More information…
Thanks to all the participants of our panel 3.7 “Cities within cities. Merchants and urban space between integration and marginalization (11th-17th Centuries)” which took place this morning at the University of Ferrara within the framework of the 11th AISU (Associazione italiana di storia urbana) conference “Beyond the Gaze. Interpreting and understanding the city”. In order…
Congratulations to our Jake Dyble who was awarded the prestigious Royal Historical Society Alexander Prize for the best article by an early career historian writing, or within two years of completing, a History PhD. This is the article: Jake Dyble, ‘General Average, Human Jettison, and the Status of Slaves in Early Modern Europe’, Historical Journal,…
Micoll’s first residential seminar (Bressanone/Brixen, 26-29 June 2023) was an opportunity not only to talk about two classics of the history of commercial law (Goldschmidt) and the history of the Italian language (Migliorini), but also to discover the Alpine region around Brixen and to experience first-hand the difficulty, but also the beauty, of some of…
Many congratulations to our Denise Bezzina, historian of the Middle Ages and expert of the State Archive of Genoa, who not only passed the first step of the ERC CoG 2023 (fingers crossed for the interview!), but has also obtained a research position (rtdb) in Medieval History at the University of Genoa. She is going…
Congratulations to our Francesca Fusco for this important publication for the prestigious series Quaderni degli “Studi di lessicografia italiana” (Accademia della Crusca)! Francesca Fusco, Il Dizionario del linguaggio italiano storico ed amministrativo di Giulio Rezasco, Firenze, Accademia della Crusca, 2023. The Dictionary of Historical and Administrative Italian Language (Florence, 1881) by Giulio Rezasco (La Spezia, 1813…
A few days ago we made a little journey to discover the remains of the ancient Via Postumia still visible in the city of Verona as well as some places relevant to medieval merchants such as the “Corte Sgarzerie”, an area next to Piazza delle Erbe, which was deeply linked to the processing and trade of…
Congratulations to Marco in ‘t Veld who received his PhD degree from VUB Brussels discussing, on 29 August 2022, a dissertation on the role of customs in the resolution of conflicts between merchants in Amsterdam and Lyon in the modern age: Cataloguing Customs of Trade: Looking Behind the Labels (Amsterdam and Lyon, 1700-1730). On the committee…
