1 Laura Gaffuri Associate Professor of Medieval History Department

Laura Gaffuri
Associate Professor of Medieval History
Department of Historical Studies - University of Turin
Via Sant'Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino
[email protected]
CURRICULUM VITAE
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
20051998-2005
Associate Professor of Medieval History, Studi Storici Department, University of Turin (Italy)
Assistant Professor of History of Christianity and the Churches, Faculty of Political Science, University of
Turin (Italy)
EDUCATION
1991
1984
PhD in History of European Society at the University of Venice (Italy)
Degree in Modern Literature at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Padua (Italy)
RESEARCH AREAS
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History of Medieval Europe
Religious orders and ecclesiastical institutions (13th-15th centuries)
The forms of medieval religious communication (preaching, hagiography)
Culture at the Savoy court in the fifteenth century
Between 2002 and 2009, these research areas have led to two Projects of National Interest (PRIN), financed by the Italian
Ministry of Education, University, and Research, for which I was local coordinator (Turin):
 (2002-2004) research project on Ecclesiastical institutions, religious life, and political power in the Duchy of Savoy
(15th Century)
 (2006-2009) research project on Training, recruitment and mobility of ecclesiastical and religious elites in the subalpine
area (14th-16th centuries), between institutionalization and culture.
SCHOLARSHIPS
1997
1993-1995
1991-1992
1987
Scholarship at the National School of Medieval Studies, attached to the Istituto Storico Italiano per il
Medio Evo (Roma).
Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of History at the University of Padua
Scholarship at the Istituto per le Ricerche di Storia Sociale e Religiosa, Vicenza
Scholarship at the Université di Paris X-Nanterre
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES
2014 2012-2016
2010
2008-2014
2004-2006
2001- ...
1999-2008
1998-2006
President of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
Councilor of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
Annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America; Venice, 8-10 April 2010: organization and
coordination (together with Prof. Daniel Bornstein) of three sessions on the theme of Languages of
Power in Italy 1300-1600. I: Picturing Power. The Articulation and Display of Civic Values; II: State and
Cult. Princely and Saintly Power; III: The Power of Religion.
Participation in the International Program of Research Les vecteurs de l’idéel. Le pouvoir symbolique entre Moyen
Âge et Renaissance, and in the Program Signs and States. Semiotics of the Modern State (SAS), financed by ERC
(European Research Council) and coordinated by Prof. Jean-Philippe Genet (University of Paris 1,
Panthéon-Sorbonne) <http://lamop.univ-paris1.fr/IMG/pdf/SAS.pdf>
Vice-President of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
Member of the editorial board of the website “Reti medievali” www.retimedievali.it
Participation in the Programme interdisciplinaire « Histoire des Savoirs », coordinated by Université
Lumière Lyon 2 and CNRS, and in the section “Religion, espace, culture et communication,” for “Le
traitement informatique d’un corpus d’écrits pragmatiques (XIIIe siècle): les sermons modèles de Jacques
de Voragine”.
Councilor of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
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1997-2004
1997-2002
1995
1994- ...
1993-2004
1991
Participation in the National Research Program, coordinated by Ecole Française de Rome, AISSCA and
AIRS, for the Inventory of Christian Sanctuaries in Italy
Participation in the National Research Program for Cataloging Vernacular Medieval Sermons (Italy, 14th15th centuries), coordinated by prof. Carlo Delcorno, Department of Italian Studies, University of
Bologna
Chercheur associé du CNRS at the Centre d’Etudes Medievales de l’Antiquité tardive à la Renaissance,
U.R.A. D1561 di Nizza (F), under the direction of prof. Monique Zerner
Editorial board of the journal Quaderni di storia religiosa (Verona, Cierre Edizioni)
Committee for the Publication of the Sources of the Venetian "Terraferma" (Assistant Editor)
Editorial Assistant of the International Medieval Bibliography, School of History, University of Leeds
(UK)
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