Prof.

GENTILE Marco

Professore di II fascia
Dipartimento di Discipline Umanistiche, Sociali e delle Imprese Culturali
Settore scientifico disciplinare
Storia medievale
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Born and raised in Milan, I graduated in Medieval History at the University of Milan and obtained my doctorate in Historical Studies at the University of Trento. I have been working in Parma since 2010: previously I was a fellow at Villa I Tatti, a research fellow at the University of Milan, and an adjunct lecturer at the University of Milan-Bicocca. Between 2016 and 2017 I was a visiting fellow at All Souls College. My research focuses mainly on the political-institutional and social history of northern Italy in the late Middle Ages, with particular attention (among other things) to the history of Parma and its territory, which I have been studying for nearly thirty years. Over the past twenty years I have given numerous papers and lectures in Italy and abroad, and I have published many articles, essays and monographs. I am the head of the Parma research unit of the PRIN 2020 project Nomina. Forenames in Late Medieval Italy: a new approach to social and political history. I am also the academic supervisor of the “Giorgio Chittolini” book collection, established at the Historical Archive of the University of Parma in 2023. Since 1 January 2020 I have been President of the Degree Programme in Humanities.

I still go to the Archives quite often.

After graduating in Medieval History at the University of Milan in 1999 under the supervision of Giorgio Chittolini, I was awarded a doctoral scholarship in Historical Studies at the University of Trento, where I completed, under the supervision of Gian Maria Varanini, a thesis on fifteenth-century Parma, defended in February 2003. I subsequently held a Dombrowski Fellowship in History at Villa I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and from 2006 to 2010 I was a research fellow at the Department of Historical Sciences of the University of Milan. In 2010 I was appointed Researcher at the University of Parma, where, since December 2016, I have been Associate Professor of Medieval History. I am a member of the Editorial Board of Società e storia, of the Editorial Committee of Medievalismo (the journal of the Sociedad Española de Estudios Medievales), of the Scientific Committee of the series Lombardia nel Rinascimento, and of the Scientific Committee of the journal Vitelliana. In the academic year 2016/17 I was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.

Prof. Gentile meets students both in person and online via MS Teams by appointment. Please write to the following email address: marco.gentile@unipr.it

 

 

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2025/2026

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2024/2025

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2023/2024

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2022/2023

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2021/2022

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2020/2021

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2019/2020

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2018/2019

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2017/2018

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2016/2017

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2015/2016

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2014/2015

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President of the Degree Course in Humanities (2020 – )

Member of the University Libraries Committee for the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Industries (2017/18 – )

Member of the Academic Field 11 Committee - History, Philosophy, Education and Psychology (2018/19 - 2020/21)

Lines of research

My primary research interests focus on processes of state formation in the late Middle Ages, with specific reference to the material constitution of the Lombard regional state and its structures. In particular, I have worked on urban political elites in Parma and Cremona, as well as on the role played by the territorial aristocracy of the Duchy of Milan. I have concentrated on the power centres that endowed the Lombard and Po-Valley political landscape with its seigneurial character from roughly the mid-fourteenth century to the Italian Wars, analysing networks of clientage and faction and their capacity to shape relations between centre and periphery within the emerging territorial state. In examining political structures and dynamics, I have adopted conflict as a privileged vantage point, considering it in the dual perspective of faction—understood as a form of organised political action operating not only informally but also institutionally—and of feud, conceived as a complex system punctuated by acts of violence and peacemaking, and closely intertwined with factional dynamics. My sustained interest in historical anthropology has, in recent years, led me to develop a strong focus on forms of shared public culture, or “popular” culture.

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I have been carrying on research on Parma and its territory in the Late Middle-Ages since the mid-1990s. I work in cooperation with the State Archive of Parma, where I give lectures at the School of Archival Studies, Palaeography and Diplomatic; and I am a member of the Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Province Parmensi.

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032248
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Humanities Building

Strada Massimo D'Azeglio, 85

1st floor

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