Members of the Chair of Medieval History (Jaspert) Gianni Pignone, M.A.
Contact
Office 221
Tel.: +49 (0)6221-54-2294
Email: gianni.pignone@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de
Address:
Gianni Pignone
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Zentrum für Europäische Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften (ZEGK)
Historisches Seminar
Grabengasse 3–5, D-69117 Heidelberg
Consultation hours:
During the lecture period of the winter term 2025/26: starting on October 30 on Thursdays 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. (room 221 on the second floor of the history department) or via email.
Appointments during the lecture free period via email.
Research interests
- History of the Duchy of Milan under the Visconti and Sforza
- Italian Switzerland in the 14th 15th century
- Foreignness, interdependence and demarcation in cultural contacts in the late Middle Ages
- Late medieval tax, customs and administrative history north and south of the Alps
- Forms of consensual rule and political equalisation in the late Middle Ages and early modern period
Dissertation project
Ticino as a transalpine area of interdependence in the late Middle Ages (working title)
Curriculum Vitae
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Since October 2023: Affiliate Doctoral Researcher of the DFG Graduate College “Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East”
- Since October 2023: Research assistant at the Chair of Medieval History (Prof Dr Nikolas Jaspert) at the Department of History at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
- 2023-2024: Coordination of the master’s programme in Medieval Studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
- 2021-2023: Master's programme in history at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
- 2017-2021: Bachelor’s degree in history and political science at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
Classes
- Winter term 2025/26: Liutprand of Cremona and the Ottonian historiography of the 10th century (source exercise)
- Summer term 2025: The Eidgenossenschaft in the Middle Ages: Identity formation and interconnections in the European context (proseminar)
- Winter term 2024/25: Fighting for money. Mercenaries in the European Middle Ages (source exercise)
- Summer term 2024: Poet, humanist and pope: Enea Silvio Piccolomini and his time (source exercise)
- Winter term 2023/24: Between Interdependence, Exchange and Demarcation: The Northern Alpine Empire and Upper Italy in the 15th century (source exercise)
Other
Together with Linda Mosig (E-Mail: linda.mosig@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de) Since the winter term 2025/26 organization of the film and lecture series MEDIEVAL MOVIE (K)NIGHTS
