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 summer term 2025: Thursdays 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. or via email. (The consultation hour on 5 June is cancelled!)
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 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)
