Medievalmerchants

ERC Synergies: MICOLL Meets PatriFem

On 21 May 2026, Stefania Gialdroni will take part in the presentation of Elena Maccioni’s volume I tribunali mercantili nei comuni italiani. Giustizia, politica, economia (secoli XII-XV) (Viella, 2024), hosted by the Università degli Studi di Genova. The event is funded by the ERC project PatriFem, led by prof. Denise Bezzina, who was previously a…

PHEDRA Conference in Paris

Our PI, together with part of the teams of MICOLL and IUSTITIAM, will join one of the biggest events on commercial law history of the last years: the conference of the project PHEDRA led by prof. Luisa Brunori. What: PHEDRA Conference – Existe-t-il un « modèle européen »? Pour une histoire du droit des affaires…

Stefania Gialdroni in Messina

Our PI Stefania Gialdroni will be soon at the University of Messina for an interdisciplinary debate about a HUGE question: WHAT IS MONEY? with a a paper entitled: “The legal dimension of the Commercial Revolution. A history of the bill of exchange between law, language, literature, and iconography” What: International Conference “What is Money. Theory,…

Micoll’s 3rd Workshop: Rome, 23-24 January 2025

What: 3rd Workshop of the ERC Project Micoll: “The Merchants’ ‘Code’. Mercantile Contracts and Letters (11th-17th Centuries)” Where: Rome, Casanatense Library and Senate Library When: 23-24 January 2025 And here we go, finally! The program of our 3rd Workshop is now ready. If you want to participate, please send an email to stefania.gialdroni@unipd.it.

Joint Workshop MICOLL-HOLYLAB

What: Workshop “Digital Humanities and Mobility Studies: An ERC Perspective” Where: University of Padua, Department or Private Law and Critique of Law, Palazzo del Bo, Sala Riviste (3rd floor) When: 3 October 2024, 10:00am-5pm The first joint workshop of the two ERC CoGs MICOLL and HOLYLAB will soon take place in Padua. On October 3rd 2024 the team…

PHEDRA Summer School, Palos de la Frontera (25-28 June, 2024)

What: PHEDRA Summer School Where: Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (UNIA) – La Ràbida, Palos de la Frontera (Spain) When: 25-28 June 2024 The whole team of MICOLL (except for Davide Basaldella, who was at a conference in Lisbon in the very same moment) took part in the Summer School organized in the framework of the Project PHEDRA…

Davide Basaldella in Lisbon

What: XIII Cardiff Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages. The Medieval Translator Where: School of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon (Portugal) When: 17-21 June 2024 Next Monday (17 June) our Davide Basaldella will present a paper on “Translating Statutes in 14th-century Italy. A Preliminary Survey on Commercial Law Terminology”…

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…

Davide Basaldella and Francesca Fusco in Warsaw

What: The contexts of Italian: language, didactics, interculturality (I contesti dell’italiano: lingua, didattica, interculturalità) Where: Uniwersytet Warszawski and Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu When: 1st Edition in Warsaw – April 18 and 19, 2024 Our two linguists, Davide Basaldella and Francesca Fusco, will soon take part in this important event with a paper entitled…

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…