List of Contributors
Ross Balzaretti
is Associate Professor and Head of History at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Dark Age Liguria: Regional Identity and Local Power, ca. 400–1020 (London, 2013) as well as The Lands of Saint Ambrose: Monks and Society in Early Medieval Milan (forthcoming from Brepols). His current project, with Charles Watkins and Pietro Piana and funded by the Leverhulme Trust, concerns British amateur topographical art and landscape in northwest Italy 1835–1915.
Carrie E. Beneš
is associate professor of medieval & Renaissance history at New College of Florida, Sarasota, Florida, and the author of Urban Legends: Civic Identity and the Classical Past in Northern Italy, 1250–1350 (University Park,
Denise Bezzina
holds degrees in history from the Universities of Malta and Genoa as well as a doctorate from the University of Turin. An affiliate of the Notariorum Itinera project at the Società Ligure di Storia Patria, her research focuses on social and economic history, and especially on forms of credit, commerce, and family and gender relationships. She is the author of Artigiani a Genova nei secoli XII–XIII (Florence, 2015).
Roberta Braccia
is professore associato of the history of medieval and modern law in the Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza at the Università degli Studi di Genova. The author of a monograph on Ligurian legal and institutional history (Diritto della città. Diritto del contado: Autonomie politiche e autonomie normative di un distretto cittadino; Milan, 2004), she has published numerous articles on local sources and the history of family law from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Developing ideas from her monograph Un avvocato nelle istituzioni: Stefano Castagnola giurista e politico dell’Italia liberale (Milan, 2008), she is presently working on the history of commercial law in Italy between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Luca Filangieri
completed his doctorate in medieval history at the Università di Firenze in 2010 with the thesis Famiglie e gruppi dirigenti a Genova (secoli XII–metà XIII). He has also published on the cathedral chapter of San Lorenzo in Genoa.
George L. Gorse
is Viola Horton Professor of Art History at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and co-editor of The Politics of Space: European Courts, ca. 1500–1750 (Rome, 2009). His numerous articles focus on architectures and urbanism in medieval and Renaissance Genoa from the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries.
Paola Guglielmotti
is professoressa ordinaria in the Dipartimento di Antichità, Filosofia e Storia at the Università degli Studi di Genova, a coordinator for Reti Medievali (www.retimedievali.it), and the author of Ricerche sull’organizzazione del territorio nella Liguria medievale (Florence, 2005) as well as the volume on Genoa in the series Il medioevo nelle città italiane (Spoleto, 2013) and ‘Agnacio seu Parentella’: La genesi dell’albergo Squarciafico a Genoa (1297) (Genoa, 2017): http://www.rmoa.unina.it/4682/. Her current research focuses on the history of historiography as well as on families and society in late medieval Genoa.
Thomas Kirk
teaches Humanities at the University of Central Oklahoma. He is the author of Genoa and the Sea: Ships and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic (1559–1684) (Baltimore, 2005), with interests revolving around Mediterranean culture during the early modern period, cultural exchange, and the economics of cultural production.
Sandra Macchiavello
is a diplomatist and historian of archival practice in the Dipartimento di Antichità, Filosofia e Storia at the Università degli Studi di Genova. Her work has focused especially on the area of ecclesiastical documentation, with critical editions both of charters of the older and more important urban monasteries (for example, two volumes of the Carte del monastero di San Siro di Genova; Genoa, 1997–8) and of the registers of notary-scribes of the Genoese archiepiscopal curia, seeking to understand the complex relationships in those institutions of ideology, structure, and documentation.
Merav Mack
is a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and an editor of the Journal of Levantine Studies. A scholar of the Christian communities of the Holy Land, she also teaches in the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Jeffrey Miner
is assistant professor of history at Western Kentucky University. A scholar of economic life, trade networks, and the Mediterranean world, he is working on a book titled Public Debt and Civic Culture in Fourteenth-Century Genoa.
Rebecca Müller
presently holds a professorship in art history at the University of Augsburg. She is the author of “Sic Ianua hostes frangit”: Spolien und Trophäen im mittelalterlichen Genua (Weimar, 2002) and the forthcoming Die Vivarini: Bildproduktion in Venedig 1440 bis 1505.
Antonio Musarra
is an Ahmanson postdoctoral fellow at the Villa I Tatti (the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies), Florence. He is the author of Genova e il mare nel medioevo (Bologna, 2015), Acri 1291: La caduta degli stati crociati (Bologna, 2017), and In partibus Ultramaris: I Genovesi, la crociata e la Terrasanta (secc. XII–XIII) (Rome, 2017).
Sandra Origone
is docente ordinario in the Dipartimento di Antichità, Filosofia e Storia at the Università degli Studi di Genova. She is the author of Bisanzio e Genova (2nd ed., Genoa, 1997) and Il mar Nero nei secoli della supremazia dei Genovesi (Genoa, 2011).
Giovanna Petti Balbi
professor emerita of medieval history at the Università degli studi di Genova, has published widely on the cultural, social, and commercial history of medieval Genoa, including Una città e il suo mare: Genova nel medioevo (Bologna, 1991); Mercanti e nationes nelle Fiandre: I genovesi in età bassomedievale (Pisa, 1996); and Governare la città: Pratiche sociali e linguaggi politici a Genova in età medievale (Florence, 2007). She is presently working on questions of citizenship and the place of foreigners in late medieval Genoa.
Valeria Polonio
was professor of medieval and ecclesiastical history at the Università degli Studi di Genova until her retirement in 2008. She is the author of numerous books and articles including Istituzioni ecclesiastiche della Liguria medievale (Rome, 2002); her current research focuses on the 1222 register of the notary Federico de Sigestro and the confraternity statutes of the Disciplinati.
Gervase Rosser
is fellow and tutor in medieval history and the history of art at St Catherine’s College in the University of Oxford. His research includes the history and nature of communities. He is the author of The Art of Solidarity in the Middle Ages: Guilds in England 1250–1550 (Oxford, 2015), and (with Jane Garnett) Spectacular Miracles: Transforming Images in Italy from the Renaissance to the Present (London, 2013).
Antonella Rovere
is Professor of Diplomatics at the Università degli Studi di Genova. The subjects of her research have chiefly been: 1) the organization and inventorying of family archives, in particular the Durazzo family archive; 2) editions of the Libri iurium of Genoa and Savona and monastic cartularies such as San Benigno di Capodifaro; and 3) studies of the manuscripts of the archdiocese of Genoa and the medieval commune, as well as studies on the medieval notariate, particularly its authenticating function in relation to civic institutions such as the Genoese communal chancery.
Stefan Stantchev
is associate professor in the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Spiritual Rationality: Papal Embargo as Cultural Practice (Oxford, 2014). His next book will explore the relations between Venice and the Ottoman Empire until ca. 1517.
Carlo Taviani
is a fellow at the Deutsches Historische Institut in Rome and a Research Associate at the Villa I Tatti. The author of Superba discordia: Guerra rivolta e pacificazione nella Genova di primo Cinquecento (Rome, 2008) and co-editor of Libertà e dominio: Il sistema politico genovese (secoli XV–XVIII) (Rome, 2011), he is currently pursuing projects on the Casa di San Giorgio and Genoese merchant networks in Africa and the Americas.