Giancarlo Andenna

Giancarlo Andenna (born May 28, 1942 in Novara ) is an Italian medieval historian and has been a professor at the Faculty of Humanities at the Università Cattolica of Milan at the headquarters in Brescia since 1993 .

Career

Giancarlo Andenna studied Medieval History at the Università Cattolica in Milan, where he also completed his studies. In 1993 he was appointed professor of medieval history at the Catholic University.

In 2007 Andenna took part in the Research Center for Comparative Order History of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in the doctoral program on basic research in the history of the order under the direction of Gert Melville , the director of the research center and head of the doctoral program. In the Collaborative Research Center 537 Institutionality and Historicity of the Technical University of Dresden , he led a project lasting several years, the title of which is Monasteries in the High Middle Ages: Innovation Laboratories for European Lifestyles and Models of Order . The Collaborative Research Center existed from 1997 to 2008. In Dresden he worked at the Research Center for Comparative Order History .

Andenna is the director of the magazine Novarien , which has existed since 1967 and deals with the history of Novares , especially the history of the church.

In 2013 Andenna became a Socio corrispondente of the Accademia dei Lincei .

Works (selection)

• Le Clarisse del Novarese (1252-1300) , in: Archivum Franciscanum historicum 67 (1974) 185-267.
• with Giorgio Picasso (ed.): Longobardia e longobardi nell'Italia meridionale. Le istituzioni ecclesiastiche, Atti del 2. Convegno internazionale di studi promosso dal Centro di cultura dell'Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore: Benevento, 29-31 maggio 1992 , Vita e Pensiero, Milan 1996.
• with Renata Salvarani (Ed.): Deus non voluit. I Lombardi alla prima crociata (1100-1101). Dal mito alla ricostruzione della realtà, Atti del Convegno, Milan, 10-11 December 1999 , Vita e Pensiero, Milan 2003.
• with Hubert Houben : Mediterraneo, Mezzogiorno, Europe. Studi in onore di Cosimo Damiano Fonseca , Bari 2004.
• The ambiguity of the symbol. The "piazza" of an Italian city between the 13th and 15th centuries; a free space for the self-representation of power or a closed "centro commerciale" ?, in: Gert Melville (Ed.): The Visible and the Invisible of Power , Böhlau, Cologne 2005, pp. 131–158.
• with Mirko Breitenstein , Gert Melville (ed.): Charisma and religious communities in the Middle Ages. Files of the 3rd international congress of the "Italian-German Center for Comparative Order History" (= Vita regularis. Orders and interpretations of religious life in the Middle Ages; Vol. 26), LIT, 2005.
• Intra ambitum civitatis cariores sunt areae. Spatial relationships between political and ecclesiastical authorities in the municipalities of Lombardy , in: Hochmuth, Rau (Ed.): Power spaces of the early modern city , Konstanz 2006, pp. 217–238. ( online , PDF)
• with Renato Bordone, Massimo Vallerani, Francesco Somaini: La grande storia di Milano , Volume 1: Dall'età dei Comuni all'unità d'Italia , UTET, 2010.
• Religiostà e Civiltà. Conoscenze, confronti, influssi reciproci tra le religioni , Milan 2013. (Settimane della Mendola)
• with Laura Gaffori (Ed.): Monasticum regnum. Religione e politica nelle pratiche di governo tra Medioevo e Età Moderna , LIT, 2015.

Web links

• Andenna , website of the Catholic University of Milan
• Publications by Andenna in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii

Remarks

1. ^ Giancarlo Andenna: Linea Ticino. Sull'unità culturale delle genti del fiume nel Medioevo , Humilibus consentientes, Bellinzona 2002, p. 9.
2. ^ Website of the Research Center for Comparative Order History.
3. ↑ New doctoral college devoted to basic research on the history of the order , JuraForum, May 16, 2005.
4. ↑ Giancarlo Andenna, Prof. Dr. , Website of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig.
5. ↑ Novarians. Rivista .
6. ^ Giancarlo Andenna entra a far parte dell'Accademia dei Lincei , Cattolica News, 7 November 2013.