Luigi Berto

Luigi Andrea Berto

    Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., University of Venice (2001)
    Medieval History, Early Middle Ages, Italy and the Mediterranean


    Office: 4432 Friedmann Hall
    E-mail: luigi.berto@wmich.edu
    Phone:
    (269) 387-4580

Berto

Teaching and Research

The foundations for the range of my teaching lie in my research profile. My interests focus on the perception of war and violence, settlement of disputes, relations between Christians and Muslims, use of the past as well as writing history in the Middle Ages. I also have a developing interest in the image of the Middle Ages in Film and Fiction.

Awards

“Segarizzi-Lazzarini 1999 (Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Venezie)” prize for the Best Book on the History of Venice. Awarded to my manuscript on the social and political vocabulary of John the Deacon`s ‘Istoria’.

Selected Publications

Volumes
Cronicae Sancti Benedicti Casinensis, edition and translation into Italian, International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin (Florence, 2006).

Testi storici e poetici dell’Italia carolingia, edition and translation into Italian, Cleup (Padua, 2002).

Il vocabolario politico e sociale della “Istoria Veneticorum” di Giovanni Diacono, Book Series of the University of Venice, Il Poligrafo editore (Padua, 2001).

Giovanni Diacono, Istoria Veneticorum, edition and translation into Italian, Istituto storico italiano per il Medioevo, Zanichelli (Bologna, 1999).

Articles and Book Chapters
‘Oblivion, Memory and Irony in Medieval Montecassino. Narrative Strategies of the ‘Chronicles of St. Benedict of Cassino’’ Viator. Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Vol. 38, No 1 (2007), pp. 45-61.

‘L’immagine dei Longobardi a Montecassino nel IX secolo’ in I Longobardi dei ducati di Spoleto e Benevento. Atti del XVI Congresso internazionale di studi sull’alto Medioevo del Centro italiano di studi sull’alto Medioevo (Spoleto, 2003), pp. 1187-1201.

‘La guerra e la violenza nella «Istoria Veneticorum» di Giovanni Diacono`, Studi Veneziani, n. s., XLII (2001), pp. 15-41.

 

Department of History
Western Michigan University
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