“Cities within Cities”: Panel 3.7, AISU Conference: University of Ferrara

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…

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…

ASDIMM Conference: University of Bologna

Tomorrow our PI Stefania Gialdroni is going to present a paper on the role and impact of the ERC Grants on legal-historical research in Italy at the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna on the occasion of the ASDIMM (Associazione degli storici del diritto medievale e moderno / Association of Medieval and Modern Law Historians)…

On the trail of the ancient Via Postumia in Verona

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…

Frankfurt and Lübeck: Prof. Albrecht Cordes at the University of Padua

It is a pleasure to announce that Prof. Albrecht Cordes (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main), external expert of Micoll, will give two lectures on the history of commercial law in Luebeck and Frankfurt on Tuesday 21 March at 5pm and Wednesday 22 March at 10am at the Department of Private Law and Critique of Law of the…

Doctoral lecture at Ca’ Foscari by MICOLL’s team

Save the date! Our team of linguists – Davide Basaldella and Francesca Fusco – together with our PI Stefania Gialdroni will give a lecture on Micoll’s lexicon “Per un lessico del diritto commerciale medievale: il progetto MICOLL” at the Department of Humanities of the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari on March 7th 2023 at 2:15pm within…

MICOLL’S First Workshop: University of Padua, 2 December 2022

The first workshop of MICOLL is coming soon! It will be an interdisciplinary event where our post-docs will discuss their research with experts of their respective fields, coming from all over Europe. Towards a Lexicon of Medieval and Early Modern Commercial Law 1st Workshop of the ERC CoG20 MICOLL Padua, 2 December 2022, Caffé Pedrocchi…

MICOLL meets AveTransRisk in Pisa

More networking! This time our Stefania Gialdroni is going to be one of the speakers at the 5th workshop of the ERC CoG project led by prof. Maria Fusaro (University of Exeter and member of the Advisory Committee of MICOLL) “Average – Transaction Costs and Risk Management during the First Globalization (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries)” – AveTransRisk,…

MICOLL meets HOLYLAB in Padua

Save the date! On October 19th at 4:30 pm we will have as a guest Prof. Felicita Tramontana (Roma Tre University) who will hold a lecture on her ERC CoG project HOLYLAB, entitled: “𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗬𝗟𝗔𝗕: 𝗨𝗡’𝗢𝗥𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗭𝗭𝗔𝗭𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗖𝗔 𝗚𝗟𝗢𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗘 𝗗𝗜 𝗘𝗧𝗔’ 𝗠𝗢𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗔 – 𝗟𝗔 𝗖𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗗𝗜 𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗔 𝗦𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗔 𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗢 𝗜 𝗦𝗨𝗢𝗜 𝗟𝗜𝗕𝗥𝗜 𝗗𝗜 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗢 (𝟭𝟲𝟬𝟬-𝟭𝟴𝟬𝟬)”. It will be…