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.

Photo of Gianni Pignone

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

  • Since October 2023: Affiliate Doctoral Researcher of the DFG Graduate College “Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East”

    Website of the Graduate College

  • 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)