The first episode of Vox Mercatoria, the new podcast of the ERC project MICOLL is now available online. You can watch the launch reel here: Instagram Reel. Debt and credit are words we encounter constantly: in contracts and balance sheets, but also in everyday language. We can have a financial debt or a moral debt;…
The “Sicilian tour” is about to begin! First stop: Catania. What: International Conference “The Migration and Transformation of Institutional Forms” Where: University of Catania, Palazzo Pedagaggi, Aula 21 Marzo When: 8-9 May 2025 Our PI prof. Stefania Gialdroni, together with Dr. Daniele Tinterri, will present a paper entitled: Follow the Words! Investigating the Mobility of…
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,…
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…
The second workshop of the MICOLL project, “Law, Language, and Geography: Charting the History of Commercial Terms”, will take place at the Goethe-Universität of Frankfurt am Main on the 1st December 2023. Migration is one of the great challenges of our era, but one that has been with us since ancient times. Today, it is…
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…
The International Congress “Centers, Peripheries, Networks, People, Goods, and Ideas on the Move in Economic History and the History of Economic Thought”, organized by the Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought (AISPE) and the Italian Society of Economic Historians (SISE) will take place at the University of Palermo from 19 to 21 October 2023.…
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…
Prof. Luisa Brunori (Directrice de Recherches at the CNRS, PI of the International Research Network PHEDRA, Centre de Théorie et Analyse du Droit Cnrs/École Normale supérieure/Université Paris Nanterre, former Directrice de Recherches at University of Lille) will give three lectures on the history of commercial law as part of the ‘History of Law’ course of the Department of Private…
