Research focus History of Italy
Venetian and Roman history in particular are the focus of the numerous research projects on the history of Italy at the professorship. The dissertation projects completed by Federica Cosenza and Lorenzo Curatella in the winter semester 2024/25 offer an idea of the self-representation of the middle class in late medieval Rome and of funerary culture in the Eternal City. As part of a Florentine conference on the Italian presence in pre-modern Nuremberg in spring 2025, a previously unknown collection of drawings by the Roman Baroque architect Filippo Vasconi was presented. This focus is also closely linked to research into medieval mobility, the role of Venice as a gateway to the Levant and the book project “The Buddha and the Medieval West”.

Conferences
Social, Commercial and Cultural Interaction. The Italian Colony in Nuremberg during the Early Modern Period, organized by Kurt Weissen, Romedio Schmitz-Esser and Francesco Guidi Bruscoli, sponsored by the Arco Foundation, Winterthur, 17.-19. Februar 2025 in Florenz
Il medioevo e l’Italia fascista: al di là della "romanità", organized by Martin Baumeister, Romedio Schmitz-Esser and Markus Wurzer, June 7th and 8th 2021, virtual (originally planned at DHI and ÖHI Rome)
Publications
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Rom - Nabel der Welt. Macht, Glaube, Kultur von der Antike bis heute, hrsg. gem. mit Jochen Johrendt, Darmstadt 2010. | |
Arnold von Brescia im Spiegel von acht Jahrhunderten Rezeption. Ein Beispiel für Europas Umgang mit der mittelalterlichen Geschichte vom Humanismus bis heute (LIT Geschichte 74), Wien–Berlin–Münster 2007. |