Guido Ruggiero

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Guido Ruggiero (* 1944 in Danbury (Connecticut) , USA ) is an American historian and professor at the University of Miami . Within historical studies, he deals with interdisciplinary approaches such as microhistory , narrative historiography and the amalgamation of literature , literary criticism and archive history. His main topics include crime , magic , science , gender , sexuality and everyday culture during the Italian Renaissance .

Life

Guido Ruggiero studied ancient history and philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder . In 1967 he obtained his Masters at the University of California, Los Angeles , where he also obtained his Ph.D. attained. His doctoral thesis is entitled The Ten. Control of Violence and Social Disorder in Trecento Venice and deals with the Council of Ten in the political and social context of violence during the Trecento period . Guido Ruggiero worked with extensive research in the Venetian archives. The doctorate was supervised by Professor Lauro Martines , who himself has a research focus on Italy at the time of the Renaissance. Furthermore, Guido Ruggiero was influenced at this time by his teachers Richard Rouse , David Packard , Milton Anastos , Lynn Townsend White and Gerhart B. Ladner .

As a Regent's Fellow at the University of California, he began his research on Venice and the Venetian archives. He was also a Fellow at Harvard Villa I Tatti in Florence (1990–1991) and was visiting professor at Harvard Villa I Tatti in Florence (2012), the University of Cincinnati (1971–87), the Florence center of Syracuse University (1985-86) and the University of Tennessee (1983-84). He was also Scholar in Residence at the American Academy in Rome (2011) and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1981–82, 1991).

Guido Ruggiero is Professor of History and Cooper Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami .

Act

Guido Ruggiero operates a form of micro-history that is influenced by social history . He orients himself, among others, to microhistorians such as Carlo Ginzburg , Natalie Zemon Davis and Gene Brucker . Between 1990 and 1993 he published three anthologies with selected articles from the Quaderni Storici magazine together with Edward Wallace Muir . According to István Szijártó, these brought Italian micro-history closer to the English-speaking audience.

Guido Ruggiero researches mainly on Italy at the time of the Renaissance. Among other things, his book The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento received a lot of attention, for which he received the 2014 award for the best book of 2014 on premodern Italy from the American Association for Italian Studies . In it he made approaches to rethink the Italian Renaissance. He criticized the concept of the Renaissance as being too biased by ideas from the 19th and 20th centuries and replaced it with the Italian concept of Rinascimento . In this term he sees the potential for a rethinking of the Renaissance not only as a historical period of time, but also as a historical movement. “A rethinking that aims to provide not so much a new way of seeing. . . [the Renaissance] as a period, as a suggestion for a new paradigm built upon the impressive scholarship of the last few generations that would allow us to conceptualize it at once as a period and a movement of return and rebirth that typified the time. "

His interest in interdisciplinary approaches within historical studies is evident in the narrative historiography, in which, for example, his book Binding Passions. Tales of Magic, Marriage and Power at the End of the Renaissance . He tries to combine storytelling with the research discipline of microhistory. He describes that his focus is on an entertaining reading experience, the background of which has been widely researched. In doing so, he is occasionally confronted with the criticism of overweighting literary interest, which also triggers discussions about whether the work can be located within micro-history.

Publications

Monographs

As editor

  • with Edward Muir : Sex and Gender in Historical Perspectives. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1990, ISBN 0-8018-3991-2 .
  • with Edward Muir: Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1991, ISBN 978-0801841835 .
  • with Edward Muir: History from Crime. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1993, ISBN 0-8018-4732-X .
  • A Companion to the Renaissance. Blackwell, Oxford 2002, ISBN 0-631-21524-7 .
  • with Laura Giannetti: Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2003, ISBN 0-8018-7257-X .

Awards

  • 1990 Guggenheim scholarship
  • 2007 Provost's Award for Scholarly Merit from the University of Miami
  • 2010 William R. Jones Outstanding Mentor Award from the Florida Education Fund
  • 2014 American Association for Italian Studies Prize for the best book of 2014 on premodern Italy (for The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento. )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c https://people.miami.edu/profile/gruggiero@miami.edu#panelAbout , accessed on August 5th, 2019.
  2. ↑ https://people.miami.edu/profile/gruggiero@miami.edu#panelCareer , accessed on August 5th, 2019.
  3. ^ Guido Ruggiero: The Ten. Control of Violence and Social Disorder in Trecento Venice. University of California, Los Angeles 1972, pp. Ix.
  4. ^ Guido Ruggiero: The Ten. Control of Violence and Social Disorder in Trecento Venice. University of California, Los Angeles 1972, p. Vi.
  5. ↑ http://miami.academia.edu/GuidoRuggiero/CurriculumVitae , accessed on August 26, 2019.
  6. ↑ Thomas V. Cohen: Review of Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage and Power from the End of the Renaissance. In: Journal of Social History , 28/3, 1995, p. 668.
  7. ↑ Guido Ruggiero: Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage and Power from the End of the Renaissance. Oxford University Press, New York 1993, pp. 18-19.
  8. ↑ István Szijártó, Sigurdur Gylfi Magnússon: What is micro history? Theory and Practice. Routledge, London / New York 2013, p. 58.
  9. ^ Guido Ruggiero: The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014, p. 14.
  10. ↑ Guido Ruggiero: Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage and Power from the End of the Renaissance. Oxford University Press, New York 1993, pp. 19-20.
  11. ^ Thomas Kuehn: Review of Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage and Power from the End of the Renaissance. In: Journal of the History of Sexuality, 5/1, 1994, p. 147.
personal data
SURNAME Ruggiero, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Danbury (Connecticut) , USA