Orari di ricevimento
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Curriculum
Antonella Ghignoli (Pontedera, PI, 1963) is since 2019 Full Professor in "Palaeography" (HIST-04/D) at Sapienza University of Rome, where she holds classes in "Writing, Literacy and Societies" and "Diplomatics". She has also been appointed for the maximum possible term of six years, from 2018 to 2024, as a Senior Research Fellow for the Academic Classes of Humanities at Sapienza School for Advanced Studies. She is member of the "Sapienza Centre for the Study of the Mediterranean and Near East in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages" (currently as member of the elected Directory Board 2023-2025) and Faculty member of the PhD Program "Cultural Heritage Studies. Texts, Writings, Images" at Università "G. D'Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara.
Her teaching career began in 2001 as Assistant Professor in the same academic field at the University La Tuscia (Viterbo) and subsequently at the University of Florence, where she has been teaching classes in "Codicology", "Latin Palaeography", "Diplomatics", "History of Palaeography and Diplomatics". She held classes in Latin Palaeography and seminars in Diplomatics also abroad.
Her research activity began in 1989, and her main fields of interest include: writings and documents from the late antiquity to the early middle ages; charters of rulers and literacy in medieval Europe (7th.-12th. century); graphic, cultural, legal and political aspects of the activity of medieval notaries; literacy and writing practices of the communal age in Italy; transmission, textual criticism and critical edition of medieval documentary sources; methodology of history and research methodologies in palaeography and diplomatics; books and libraries of the Renaissance. Her bibliography began in 1991 and currently lists more than 160 journal and book publications. From 1989 to date she attended more than 40 international conferences and seminars as invited speaker (and 31 national conferences in the same role).
She directed and co-directed research projects funded both from the Italian Ministry of University and Reserch and foreign research institutions. In the call 2017 she has been granted an ERC Advanced Grant as Principal Investigator for the project NOTAE, acronym of «NOT A writtEn word but graphic symbols: An evidence-based reconstruction of another written world in pragmatic literacy from Late Antiquity to early medieval Europe», that she led from 2018 to 2024. Currently she is co-director (with Paul Bertrand, Université Catholique de Louvain, and Arianna D'Ottone Rambach, Sapienza University of Rome) of the international research program «DiploMA - Diplomatics in the Mediterranean Area», included among the "Programmes structurants 2022-2026, Axe 2 Création, patrimoine, mémoire" of the École Française de Rome.
She is editor of the Book Series «Graphic Symbols, Written Words» at Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura (Rome) and co-editor (with François Bougard, IRHT Paris, and Wolfgang Huschner, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften) of the Book Series «Italia Regia» at Eudora Verlag (Leipzig). She is also member of the Editorial Board of «Archivio storico italiano», the oldest Italian historical journal founded in 1842, and member of the Scientific Board of several academic journals, including «Scrineum. Saggi e materiali on line di scienze del libro e del documento medievali» and «Medioevo e Rinascimento». She works intensively as peer reviewer for many academic journals.
She is member of the "Comité International de Paléographie Latine" (CIPL), fellow of the "Associazione Italiana dei Paleografi e Diplomatisti" (AIPD) and currently she is member of other academic societies, including the "Association Paléographique Internationale. Culture Écriture Société" (APICES), "Società italiana per la storia medievale" (SISMED) and the Italian "Consulta Universitaria dei Paleografi Diplomatisti Codicologi" (CuPADIC).
In 2013 she was appointed as Deputy of the "Deputazione di Storia Patria per la Toscana" (by decree of appointment of the Italian Ministry of Culture, 13.05.2013) and in 2015 Corresponding Partner of the "Accademia Senese degli Intronati".
She has held and still holds positions of trust and responsibility in academic career and research evaluation, both in Italy and abroad. To mention only international experiences, she is currently member of the "Conseil Scientifique" of the École française de Rome (from 2024 to 2027) and for the same French research institution she was appointed as a member of "Commission d'admission des membres scientifiques" from 2021 to 2024. She has also been commissioned by foreign universities (Belgium, Germany) and research organisations (ERC and the "Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften", among others) as an expert in the evaluation of academic careers and research projects.