Prof. Ordinario di storia medievale, Università di St Andrews, Scotland 2009-
'Reader' in storia medievale, Università di St Andrews, Scotland 2005-2009
'Lecturer' in storia medievale, Università di St Andrews, Scotland, 1995-2005
'Lecturer' in storia, Università di York, England, 1994-1995
PhD Università di Londra 1994
BA Hons, Università di Londra 1984
Principali pubblicazioni
Single authored Books:
• The Other Friars. The Carmelites, Augustinian Sack and Pied Friars (The Monastic Orders 2), Boydell Press, Woodbridge. 2006. 261pp. Reprinted in paperback 2015.
• The Early Humiliati (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th series, 43). Cambridge University Press, 1999 [2000], 353pp. Reprinted in paperback 2007.
Edited Books/Journal issues:
• 2021 (2022) Ripensare la reclusione volontaria nell’Europa medievale, ed. with Eleonora Rava, Quaderni di storia religiosa medievale 24/1-2, Bologna, Il Mulino, 691pp
• 2016 Doubting Christianity / The Church and Doubt, Studies in Church History 52, ed. with Charlotte Methuen and Andrew Spicer, Cambridge University Press, 471pp
• 2013 (assisted by M.A. Pincelli), Churchmen and Urban Government in Late Medieval Italy, c.1200–c.1450. Cases and Contexts. Cambridge University Press, 426pp.
• 2011. Ritual and Space in the Middle Ages. Proceedings of the Harlaxton Symposium 2009, Donington: Shaun Tyas Publishing. 384pp.
• 2009 (with K.L. Jansen and J. Drell). Medieval Italy. Texts in Translation Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press, 589pp.
• 2004 (with C. Egger, C. Rousseau). Pope, Church and City. Essays in Honour of Brenda M. Bolton (The Medieval Mediterranean. Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 56) Brill: Leiden, 2004, 398pp.
Journal Articles
• 2025. ‘Fragments as History. Magdalen College Oxford Ms Lat. 143 and the Augustinian Hermit Friars’. Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforchung, 133, 35–79.
• 2025. 'Political Uses of Nemo militans deo se implicat negotiis secularibus (2 Tim 2:4): the Italian Communes in the Late Middle Ages’. Cristianesimo nella Storia, Special Issue: Reading Scripture and Thinking Politics, 399-422.
• 2024. ‘Taking it on trust? Writing about Officials in the Medieval Italian Communes’, Haskins Society Journal, 2024, 201-234.
• 2024. (with Louise Bourdua): ‘Fashioning the “Order of St Clare.” A Rule illuminated by Neri da Rimini: Princeton University Library MS 83 in context’, Franciscan Studies 81, 75-114.
• 2022. (with Eleonora Rava) ‘Defining Reclusion: A discussion’. QSRM 24/2, 377-410.
• 2021 (with Due detenuti nella Casa circondariale di Terni & Eleonora Rava) ‘La reclusione volontaria medievale alla luce dell'esperienza di detenzione “fine pena mai”’, QSRM, 24/2, 511-536.
• 2021. (with Eleonora Rava): ‘Introduction: Approaches to voluntary reclusion in medieval Europe 13th-16th Centuries’. Quaderni di storia religiosa medievale 24/1, 1-30.
• 2013. ‘Le voci della Legenda beati fratris Venturini: tra santità e condanna’. Cristianesimo nella storia 34(2), 507-541.
• 2010. ‘Living like the Laity? The negotiation of religious status in the cities of late medieval Italy’. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 20, 27-55.
• 2009. ‘Gli ordini mendicanti tra peste nera e osservanze’. Memorie Domenicane 40, 7-33.
• 2007. ‘Il secondo concilio di Lione (1274), gli Agostiniani e gli ordini soppressi’. Analecta Augustiniana 70, 159-185.
• 1998. ‘The Second Generation of the Sambin Revolution: New Writings on the Humiliati’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 49, 140-148.
Chapters
• 2025. ‘The Early Generations of the Humiliati: Between Condemnation and Institutionalisation’. in Die zweite Generation. Person und Institution, Krise und Narrativ im Prozess der Entstehung religiöser Orden und Gemeinschaften/ La seconda generazione. Personalità e istituzioni, crisi e narrazioni nei processi all’origine di ordini e comunità religiose. Atti delle giornate di studio tenute a Villa Vigoni (13-15 novembre 2023), ed. Marco Rainini, Andrea Riedl, Münster, Aschendorff, 207-227.
• 2024. ‘“Ut ordo eo efficacius surgeret”. Innocent IV, the Bonites and the Origins of the Order of the Augustinian Hermit Friars’. Innocenzo IV e gli ordini mendicanti. Atti del 51o convegno della Società internazionale di studi Francescani, 12-14 ottobre 2023, Assisi. Spoleto, CISAM, 147-167.
• 2024 (with Louise Bourdua). ‘The Notary, the Sculptor, the Friar and the Doge: Giovanni Dolfin and his creditors in mid-fourteenth-century Venice’, in Popes, Bishops, Friars, and Scholars: Studies in Medieval History Presented to Patrick N. R. Zutshi for his Seventieth Birthday, ed. by Michael Robson and Peter D. Clarke, BCEEC 8, Turnhout, Brepols, 51-75.
• 2023. ‘Urban religion’. A People’s Church. Medieval Italy and Christianity 1050-1300, ed. Agostino Paravicini Bagliani and Neslihan Senocak, Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 298-334.
• 2021. ‘Fra gli ordini di Gioacchino e il Gioacchino degli ordini: dagli Umiliati ai Mendicanti’. in Ordini e disordini in Gioacchino da Fiore. 9o Congresso Internazionale di Studi Gioachimiti. San Giovanni in Fiore 19-20-21 settembre 2019, ed. Marco Rainini, Rome, Viella, 243-275.
• 2020. ‘The Early Mendicants’. in The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism, ed. Bernice Kaczynski, Oxford University Press, 264-284.
• 2018. ‘Como and Padua’. Italy and Medieval Europe. Papers for Chris Wickham, ed. Ross Balzaretti et al., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 525-538.
• 2017. ‘The influence of Joachim in the 13th century’. A Companion to Joachim of Fiore. ed. Matthias Riedel, Leiden, Brill, 190-266.
• 2017. ‘The Sack Friars and the Problems of a Comparative History of the Mendicants’. Gli studi francescani: prospettive di ricerca. Atti dell’Incontro di studio in occasione del 30° anniversario dei Seminari di formazione Assisi, 4-5 luglio 2015, Spoleto, CISAM, 147-185.
• 2016. ‘Doubting John?’ Doubting Christianity/The Church and Doubt ed. Andrews et al., Studies in Church History 52, Cambridge University Press, 17-48 (plus introduction, 1-16).
• 2014. ‘Preacher and audience: friar Venturino da Bergamo and “popular voices”’. The Voices of the People in Late Medieval Europe. Communication and Popular Politics. ed. Jan Dumolyn, et al., Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800) 33, Turnhout, Brepols, 185-204.
• 2013. ‘“Ut inde melius fiat”. The commune of Parma and its religious personnel’. Churchmen and Urban Government in Late Medieval Italy, c.1200–c.1450. Cases and Contexts, ed. Andrews et al, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 45-66 (plus introduction, 1-24 and epilogue 348-357).
• 2011. ‘Ritual and Space: Definitions and Ways forward’. Ritual and Space in the Middle Ages. Papers of the Harlaxton Medieval Symposium, Stamford UK, Shaun Tyas Publishing, 1-29.
• 2008. ‘Self-Representation in Moments of Crisis: the Humiliati’. Self-Representation of Medieval Religious Communities. The British Isles in Context, ed. Anne Müller, Karen Stöber, Vita regularis - Abhandlungen 40, Berlin, Lit Verlag, 221-233.
• 2007. ‘Umkämpfter Raum im Rom Innocenz’ III.: Die “Gesta Innocentii papae III”’. Aussen und Innen, Räume und ihre Symbolik im Mittelalter, ed. Nikolaus Staubach, Vera Johanterwage, Tradition - Reform – Innovation: Studien zur Modernität des Mittelalters 14, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 133-150.
• 2004. ‘Regular Observance and Communal Life: Siena and the Employment of Religious’. Pope, Church and City, ed. Andrews et al, The Medieval Mediterranean. Peoples, Economies and Cultures 56, Leiden, Brill, 357-383 (plus ‘Introduction’, 1-10).
• 2004. ‘A safe-haven for children? The early Humiliati and provision for children’. Youth in the Middle Ages, ed. P. J. P. Goldberg, Felicity Riddy, Woodbridge, York Medieval Press, 73-84.
• 2003. ‘Albertano of Brescia, Rolandino of Padua and the rhetoric of legitimation’. Building Legitimacy, Political Discourses and Forms of Legitimation in Medieval Societies, ed. Isabel Alfonso et al., The Medieval Mediterranean. Peoples, Economies and Cultures 53, Leiden Brill, 319-340.
• 2002. ‘By the labour of their hands? Religious work and city life in thirteenth-century Italy’. The Use and Abuse of Time in Christian History, ed. Robert N. Swanson, Studies in Church History 37, Woodbridge, Boydell, 81-93.
• 2001. ‘Monastic historiography in England: the late middle ages’, Dove va la storiografia monastica in europa? ed. Giancarlo Andenna, Milan, Vita e Pensiero, 85-100.
• 2000. ‘Rome and Romanitas. Introduction’, Early Medieval Rome and the Christian West. Essays in Honour of Donald A. Bullough, ed. Julia M.H. Smith, The Medieval Mediterranean. Peoples, Economies and Cultures 28, Leiden, Brill, 1-17.
• 1999. ‘Innocent III and Evangelical Enthusiasm’, Innocent III and his World, ed. J.C. Moore, et al., Ashgate, 229-241.
• 1998. ‘The Second Generation of the Sambin Revolution’. Journal of Ecclesiastical History 49, 140-148.
• 1998. ‘Principium et origo ordinis: the Humiliati and their origins’. The Church Retrospective, ed. Robert N. Swanson, Studies in Church History 33, Woodbridge, Boydell, 149-161.
Shorter Contributions:
• 2025. ‘Conclusions’ in ‘Diversamente Mendicante’, Quaderni di storia religiosa medievale 28/2, 471-483
• 2025. ‘Little, Andrew G.’; ‘Gli ordini mendicanti’; entries for Enciclopedia Francescana, Rome, Treccani, 4,500 words.
• 2022. ‘Con la mano e con gli occhi per divertirsi’. in Capire la Scrittura Leggendo Attilio Bartoli Langeli, Viterbo, Pliniana, 2022, 7-10. 1,500 words.
• 2023. ‘Introduzione, Spunti e riflessioni a margine’. Fra le mura del chiostro. Microstoria e storia della vita quotidiana dalla documentazione dei monasteri di clausura femminili (XV-XIX secc), Atti del convegno di studio. Viterbo 20-21 novembre 2021, ed. Paola Pogliani and Eleonora Rava, Temi e Testi 238, Rome, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, XV-XIX.
• 2020. ‘Epilogue’. in Un monachesimo di confine: l’abbazia Cistercense di Cerreto nel medioevo, ed. Guido Cariboni et al., Spoleto: CISAM, 273-278.
• 2010. ‘Lucio III’, and ‘Umiliati’, Dizionario storico dell’Inquisizione, ed. Adriano Prosperi, 4 vols. Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, II, 944, IV, 1609-1610.
• 2003. ‘Pope Lucius III, 1181-5’, The New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition, Detroit-Washington, Thomson-Gale/Catholic University of America, VIII, 847-848.
• 1997/2007. ‘Beguines and Beghards’; ‘Italy in the second half of the 13th century’; ‘N. Italy from the Rise of the Signori to the Peace of Lodi’; ‘The Papal states’; ‘The Humiliati’, Atlas of Medieval History, ed. A. Mackay et al, revised and amplified second edition, ed. David Ditchburn, Simon Maclean, Abingdon-New York, Routledge.
• 1993. (with Robert N. Swanson), ‘Cronaca del convegno Heresy and Literacy’, Rivista di storia e letteratura religiosa 29, pp. 263-267.