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Via Querinissima officially certified as a Cultural Route of the Council of Europe

The Via Querinissima has officially obtained the prestigious certification as a “Cultural Route of the Council of Europe”, one of the most important European recognitions dedicated to transnational cultural itineraries promoting shared heritage, intercultural dialogue, and cooperation across borders. The route retraces the extraordinary fifteenth-century journey of the Venetian merchant Pietro Querini, whose shipwreck in…

Merchants’ Routes 2.0: From Archives to the Web – 4th MICOLL Workshop

What: 4th International Workshop of the ERC CoG MICOLL: “Merchants’ Routes 2.0. From Archives to the Web”. Where: Genoa State Archives (Piazza Santa Maria in Via Lata, 7) and Società Ligure di Storia Patria (Palazzo Ducale, Piazza Giacomo Matteotti, 5, Genoa) When: 22 and 23 January 2026   We are thrilled to announce the upcoming 4th…

Second joint workshop MICOLL-HOLYLAB

What: Workshop “Digital Humanities e Mobilità: Ulteriori Prospettive da Progetti ERC” Where: Department of Political Sciences, RomaTre University, Room 4A (4th floor), via Gabriello Chiabrera 199, Rome When: 7 November 2025, 2:30pm We are delighted to announce that the second joint workshop of the ERC projects MICOLL (Migrating Commercial Law and Language. Rethinking Lex Mercatoria,…

Daniele Tinterri in Boston

We are very pleased to announce that our postdoc Daniele Tinterri will present a paper within the framework of the huge Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America which will take place in Boston on March 20-22, 2025. He will talk about the “Liber Gazarie”, one of the main sources of medieval maritime law,…

Daniele Tinterri in Trent

Coming soon: Doctoral lecture by our postdoc Daniele Tinterri at the University of Trent! What: “La scoperta dell’ignoto. Spazi e tempi dei mercanti, esploratori e cartografi tra geostoria e global history (XIV-XX secolo)”. Doctoral lecture within the framework of the Doctorate in  “European Cultures. Environment, Contexts, Histories, Arts, Ideas”. Discussant: prof. Andrea Bonoldi Where: University…

Stefania Gialdroni in Trento

What: PhD lecture Where: University of Trento When: 16 May 2024, 3:00 PM Thanks to the invitation of prof. Tommaso Beggio, Stefania Gialdroni will present a paper within the framework of the doctoral course in compared and European legal studies  (Corso di dottorato in studi giuridici comparati ed europei) of the University of Trento. The…

A day trip along the canals

Learning by experience! Stefania Gialdroni, Chiara Lo Giudice, David De Concilio and Jake Dyble along the waterways used by merchants from the Middle Ages until the 1960s to transport men and goods. Thanks to the director of the Museum of river navigation (Museo della navigazione fluviale), Maurizio Ulliana, yesterday we had the opportunity to navigate…

Alicia Wolff on pilgrimage routes in the Middle Ages

On Monday 19t February 2024, at 2:30pm (Rome time), Alicia Wolff, PhD student at the University of Heidelberg, will give a lecture on “Glossaries, itineraries, and treaties: Lists as the main tool for organizing, saving, and sharing knowledge in medieval pilgrimage reports”, based on her doctoral thesis. Pilgrimage routes, from Northern Europe towards Rome and Jerusalem in…

Across the Alps, following the ancient trade routes

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…