42° cycle of Doctoral Programme

1 Doctoral Scholarship "Travellers’ interactions in early modern Italy  (curriculum Studi storici)

The doctoral scholarship is funded by Fondazione Bruno Kessler

This PhD fellowship is offered within the project Travellers’ interactions in early modern Italy (TRAVEL), funded by the Fondo Italiano per la Scienza (FIS-2023-02909) (PI: Sandra Toffolo). This project focuses on interpersonal encounters involving travellers in the Italian peninsula (1400-1600). It aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the practical aspects of interactions involving a wide range of people on the move. In this way it aims to address more general issues concerning early modern mobility. The members of the research team will each focus on a specific geographical area, examining different aspects of encounters involving travellers: legislation, the use of urban space, communication, and material culture. Sources produced both by the travellers and by the individuals and authorities they interacted with will be used. This PhD fellowship is open to graduates in historical-archival and philological-literary disciplines. Preference will be given to candidates whose research projects address the above topic in the context of urban centres of Alpine transit (especially, though not exclusively, Belluno and Bergamo; both under Venetian dominion).

Applications may be submitted in either English or Italian. Good knowledge of both languages is required.
 

Note:

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41° cycle of Doctoral Programme

2 Doctoral Scholarships: "Sacred and Profane Power in the Middle Ages and Modern Era: A Millennium Since the Founding of the Prince-Bishopric of Trento (1027-2027)"

The selected project must be dedicated to the study of temporal powers exercised by ecclesiastical authorities or, more generally, to the relationship between sacred and profane powers, within the chronological span from the High Middle Ages to the threshold of the 19th century. Proposals may consider political-institutional, religious and ecclesiastical, social, and economic aspects connected to the theme. While proposals can refer to realities existing in Christian Europe within the considered chronological span or part thereof, those that dedicate their analysis to the prince-bishoprics of the Alpine area will be given particular consideration.

The two doctoral scholarships are funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento.

Scientific-Disciplinary Sectors of Reference:

  • 11/HIST-01/A Medieval History
  • 11/HIST-02/A Modern History
  • 11/HIST-03/A Contemporary History
  • 11/HIST-04/B History of Christianity and Churches

Doctoral Program Coordinator: Federico Laudisa.