Giacomo Vignodelli

I’m a tenured researcher at the University of Bologna since 2024, my research focuses on early medieval history, with a specific interest in the kingdom of Italy during the 9th to 11th centuries, on which I worked in a wide-ranging investigation perspective, exploring its political, social, and cultural history.

I’m currently working on a monographic study on kings' Hugh's and Lothar II's (circa 880-950) rule on the kingdoms of Italy, Provence, and Burgundy as a case study on the political structures of post-Carolingian Europe. Alongside this work, I’m conducting extensive research on satirical-prophetic forms of political criticism from the 9th to the 11th century, through the study of cultural practices of copying, commenting, and creatively reworking the pagan and Christian auctoritates. In my research, I have confronted the analysis of manuscript sources (both codices and documents) based on their tradition and materiality, collaborating with philologists and diplomatists, as well as scholars of Digital Humanities, applied physics, and Textual Science with trans-disciplinary research perspectives.