Daniela Rando

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Daniela Rando (born March 23, 1959 in Terni ) is an Italian historian whose research focuses on the church history of Venice in the early and high Middle Ages, the 'memoria' and self-testimonies in the 15th century, migration and exile, and above all on comparative historiography of the 19th and 20th centuries.

life and work

On October 29, 1981, Rando received her Laurea degree in philosophy from the University of Padua with Giorgio Cracco . From 1984 to 1986 she worked on her Dottorato di ricerca in Storia (storia della società europea) at the University of Venice , a thesis that was supervised by Cinzio Violante alongside Cracco . First she passed the aptitude test for teaching history, philosophy and pedagogy at the Scuole medie superiori . From 1987 to 2001 she was Ricercatrice for Medieval History at the University of Trento , there at the Facoltà di Lettere e filosofia . In 1993/1994 she received a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (reviewer Alexander Patschovsky ) and, in 1998/1999, was a visiting professor at the Institute for Comparative History of Europe in the Middle Ages at the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 2001 to 2004 she was professore associato for the history of the Middle Ages at the University of Trento. Since December 2004 she has been working as a professor ordinario , also for medieval history, at the University of Pavia , more precisely at today's Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici .

In 1993/94 she received a research grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica , then from the Henkel Foundation in Bonn (1998/1999) and at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen (2000). In addition, she was guest lecturer at the Institute for Comparative History of Europe in the Middle Ages with Michael Borgolte in 1998/99 , as well as within the framework of the Excellence Initiative at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where she accepted an invitation from Claudia Märtl from 2007-2008 . After all, she is working on the multi-year project on personnel decisions for key social positions at the history seminar of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , whose project coordinator is Andreas Fahrmeir . As the first and only Italian, she also works for the German Commission for the processing of the Regesta Imperii . Since 2017 she has been a member of the Consiglio direttivo of the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo . In the 2016/17 apprenticeship year, she taught at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa on German post-war historiography.

Her doctoral thesis dealt with the Venetian Church on the border between the Longobard Empire and the Roman Empire . In addition to questions about exile, she dealt with Johannes Hinderbach for several years .

Awards

In 2016 she received the Brunacci Prize for her work Venezia medievale nella modernità. Storici e critici della cultura fra Otto e Novecento , which was published by Viella 2014 in Rome.

Works (selection)

  • with Gian Maria Varanini: Storia di Treviso , Vol. 2, Marsilio, Venice 1989.
  • Le strutture della chiesa locale , in: Storia di Venezia , vol. 1: Origini. Età ducale , Rome 1992, pp. 645-675.
  • Le istituzioni ecclesiastiche venetiane nei secoli VI – XII. Il dinamismo di una Chiesa di frontiera , il Mulino, Bologna 1994.
  • Dai margini la memoria. Johannes Hinderbach (1418–1486) , Il Mulino, 2003.
  • Venezia medievale nella modernità. Storici e critici della cultura fra Otto e Novecento , Viella, Rome 2014.
  • De là da mar - Venice's “Colonies” from a “postcolonial” perspective , in: Reinhard Härtel (Ed.): Acculturation in the Middle Ages , Sigmaringen 2014, pp. 371–393.

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personal data
SURNAME Rando, Daniela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Terni