The religious and social history of northern Europe during the Middle Ages; comparative work on devotional objects and reappraisal of the significance of materiality in medieval art
Elected 2017
History and archaeology of the Byzantine empire (especially 7th-12th centuries); pre-modern state formation; resources and logistics of late ancient and medieval society; environment, climate and societal resilience
The history of the everyday in the late medieval period, including material culture, food, sensory perception, great households; diplomatic, forms of documents and archival processes from the medieval period onwards
Western Medieval History; History of Christianity; Researches on the medieval conception of holiness and on the sacralization of space and time ; Francis of Assisi and the Franciscan history. Dissent and Orthodoxy in the West (X-XV centuries)
