RAIMONDO DELLA VOLPE

PhD Student

PhD program:: XLI
email: raimondo.dellavolpe@uniroma1.it




supervisor: Prof. Sergio Botta
co-supervisor: Prof.ssa Tessa Canella

Research: Resemanticizing a Deity. The Historical-Functional evolution of Thor during the christianization of the North.

-Bachelor’s Degree in History, Anthropology and Religions (L-42), Sapienza University of Rome, 2020;
-Master’s Degree in Cultures and Religions (LM-64), Sapienza University of Rome, 2024, final grade 110/110 cum laude; thesis: “At the Edge of the Cosmos. Towards a New Interpretation of Divine Warriors: Thor, Ninurta and Heracles”;
-Master’s Degree in Ethno-Anthropological Disciplines (LM-1), Sapienza University of Rome, currently in progress

The research project aims to investigate, through a historical-religious and narratological analysis of Old Icelandic literature, the resemanticization of the figure of Thor, with particular attention to the ways in which sagas and poetic texts reworked, through the god of the hammer, the historical dynamics that characterized Iceland during the period of christianization.

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