NATIONAL PHD IN PEACE STUDIES

email: umberto.longo@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649913836

Umberto Longo is a full professor of medieval history at the University of Rome La Sapienza; he isCommissioner Extraordinary of the Italian Historical Institute for the Middle Ages; deputy director of the Department ofHistory, Anthropology, Religions, Art, Entertainment and President of the Master's Degree Course in "Scienzestoriche. Middle Ages, Modern Age, Contemporary Age"; member of the Governing Council of the Italian Society of Historians of the Middle Ages. His studies focus on medieval history in a diachronic perspective with particular reference to the central Middle Ages. Preferential fields of investigation are the history of ecclesiastical and monastic institutions, the history of the papacy and the history of sanctity, with particular regard to the function of hagiographic sources in the context of the relationships between sanctity, institutions and territory.He then studies medievalism as a cultural phenomenon that can be linked to the Middle Ages in relation to present-day society and the relationship between historical research and the valorization and communication of cultural heritage. Principal investigator of the MUR-funded research project, PRIN 2022 FRAME - FramingMedievalisms: Historiography, Cultural Heritage, Media Communication and Languages in Italy (1980-2022She also deals with the relationship between historical research and the valorization and communication of Cultural Heritage for the promotion of territories through digital technologies and Third Mission. In this perspective, he obtained in 2016 funding from the Fondation pour le développement des recherches en histoirereligieuse du Moyen Âge, abritée par l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, for the research: "Religious experiences,sacred places, cults and devotions in Sabina and the Reatino region".He has organized and/or participated as a speaker in numerous national and international Conferences and has participated in and/or coordinated a number of research projects promoted by Italian and foreign university institutions.

Among his publications: Constructio monasteri farfensis, edited by Umberto Longo, Rome, Istituto storicoitaliano per il Medioevo 2017 (Fonti e Studi farfensi, Fonti ,1); Come angeli in terra. Pier Damiani, la santità ela riforma del secolo XI, Rome Viella 2012 (Sacro/santo, 19); La santità medievale, Rome Jouvence 2006 (IlTimone bibliografico, 1); Framing Clement III. (anti)pope, edd. Umberto Longo and Lila Yawn, in Retimedievali - 13, 1 (2012) http://rivista.retimedievali.it; The Spatial Dimension of Sanctity as a Factor of Institutionalization, in Space and Mobility in the "Societas Christiana" (Centuries X-XIII). Proceedings of the ConvegnoInternazionale, Brescia, September 17-19, 2015, edited by G. Andenna, N. D'Acunto, E. Filippini(Settimane internazionali della Mendola. Nuova Serie, 5), pp. 65-90; Una risorsa in più: miracoli e nutrimentonell'agiografia, in L'alimentazione nell'alto medioevo: pratiche, simboli, ideologie, Spoleto CISAM 2016, (Settimanedi studio della fondazione centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo, LXIII), pp. 355-41; Leo IX., Romaund das italische Mönchtum. Einige Überlegungen zu den leonischen Reformverfahren, in Un vescovo imperiale sullacattedra di Pietro. Il pontificato di Leone IX (1049-1054) tra Regnum e sacerdotium, a cura di F. Massetti,Milano Vita e Pensiero, 2021, pp. 227-242 (Ordines. Studi su istituzioni e società nel medioevo europeo,12); Succéder au temps de la Réforme de l'Église. Definition des mécanismes et des procédures canoniques de l'électionpapale entre le XIe et le XIIe siècle, in Succéder au Moyen Âge, LIIIe congrès de la SHMESP, École française de Rome, May 26-29, 2022, Paris Publications de la Sorbonne, pp. 297-307.