ANTONELLA GHIGNOLI

NOTICES REGARDING INTERNSHIPS
For information on internships, please view the Italian version of this page.

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NOTICES REGARDING TEACHING ACTIVITIES

II Semester courses
Latin Palaeography  (L-42, 12 CFU)
Start date: Wednesday. 04.03.2026 (12.00 -14.00, Room "D Egittologia").
Schedule
Tuesday,  8.00 -10.00 , room "D Egittologia"
Wednesday, 12.00 - 14.00, room "D Egittologia"
Thursday,  8.00 - 12.00, room "Etnologia"

Diplomatics I (L-42, 6 CFU)
Start date Wednesday. 04.03.2026 (14.00-16.00, room "D Egittologia"). 
Schedule
Tuesday, 14.00-16.00, room  "Paleografia"
Wednesday,, 14.00 - 16.00, room "D Egittologia"

Diplomatics (LM-84, 6 CFU)
Start date Wednesday. 04.03.2026 (16.00-18.00, room "Brelich"). 
Tuesday, 16.00-18.00, room "Brelich"
Wednesday, 16.00 - 18.00, room "Brelich"

Warning
Calendar and Syllabus of the courses will be available on the correspondent Classroom together with all teaching material. The access codes to the classrooms will be posted here shortly before the start of the courses.

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FURTHER INFORMATION
The official website of the ERC Advanced Grant NOTAE project, which I direct, can be visited at this Url
My complete and updated bibliography is downloadable at this Url.
My short bio, here.
My updated Curriculum Vitae is downloadable at this Url

My most recent publications (2024-2026)

1. Rethinking the Evidence for Latin Shorthand​ in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, in M. C. Scappaticcio (ed.), Latin Texts on Papyrus and the Study of Classics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2026, pp. 334-346; https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009586634.021
2. Written Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Signs Texts Data, edited by A. Ghignoli, L. C. Colella, M. Marucci, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2025 (Temi e Testi, 250; Graphic Symbols and Written Words), pp. IX, 245 + tavv. Available here in free open access.
3. Simboli cristiani di analfabeti in papiri documentari latini (secoli VI-VII), in Ghignoli A., Colella L.C. , Marucci M. (Eds), Written Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Signs Texts Data, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2025 (Temi e Testi, 250; Graphic Symbols and Written Words), pp. 51-78. Available here in free open access.
4. Preface (con L. C. Colella e Marta Marucci), in Ghignoli A., Colella L.C. , Marucci M. (Eds), Written Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Signs Texts Data, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2025 (Temi e Testi, 250; Graphic Symbols and Written Words), pp. VII-IX.
5. Tachigrafia latina tardoantica e manoscritti veronesi: prime considerazioni, in Città cattedrali biblioteche al passaggio tra tardoantico e alto medioevo. A partire dal caso di Verona, a cura di M. Bassetti e P. Degni, Spoleto, Fondazione CISAM, 2025 (Studi e Ricerche. Collana dell'Associazione Italiana dei Paleografi e Diplomatisti, 8), pp. 17-34.
6.  Review of the Book "R. Lizzi Testa And G. Marconi (Eds), With The Assistance of A. Giomma, The Collectio Avellana and the Development of Notarial Practices in Late Antiquity (Giornale italiano di filologia. Bibliotheca 31). Turnhout: Brepols, 2023", in «The Journal of Roman Studies» (Cambridge University Press), 2025, pp. 1-4 doi:10.1017/S0075435825100452. More details, here.
7.  Image Processing and Semantic Technologies in Digital Humanities. The NOTAE Experience (con  Z. Ziran, F. Leotta, M. Mecella), in D. Luger, G. Vogeler (Eds.), From Digital to Distant Diplomatics. Digital Diplomatics 2022, Wien, Böhlau - Brill, 2025 (Archiv für Diplomatik, Beiheft 22), pp. 113-34. Available here in free open access.
8. La coraggiosa Egenanda, in Ritratti di donne: una Storia di esperienze. Saggi per Paola Guglielmotti, raccolti da Tiziana Lazzari e Isabella Lazzarini, Genova, Società Ligure di Storia Patria, 2024 (Quaderni della Società Ligure di Storia Patria, 16), pp. 9-23. Available here in free open access.
9. Il papiro di Vicenza (P.Vic.). Un nuovo papiro latino del VI secolo (con T. De Robertis e S. Zamponi), Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2024 (Edizioni dell'Istituto papirologico «Girolamo Vitelli», 15). Disponibile  in free open access

Publications which will be released in 2026 

1. La Bibbia nella comunicazione scritta di papi e sovrani nell'alto medioevo, in La Bibbia nell'alto medioevo. Atti della LXXII Settimana di studio (Spoleto, 24-30 aprile 2025), Spoleto, Fondazione del Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo.
2. Trent'anni dopo. Per un ritorno sulle tracce scritte dei rapporti tra Pisa e il Maghreb nel medioevo (secoli XII-XIV), in Quellen zur Geschichte der „internationalen“ Beziehungen zwischen politischen Zentren in Europa und der Mittelmeerwelt (ca. 800 – 1600): Briefe – Urkunden – Verträge. Akten der Internationale Kongress für Diplomatik.Leipzig, 4-6 Oktober 2018, Leipzig, Eudora Verlag (Italia Regia, 8).
3. Conclusioni, in Lo scritto che non ti aspetti. Forme erratiche di libri, scritture, documenti. Atti del Convegno Internazionale dell'Associazione Italiana dei Paleografi e Diplomatisti, Roma, 12-14 settembre 2024, a cura di L. Pani e S. Ammirati, Spoleto, Fondazione Cisam (Studi e ricerche).

The Book Series of which I am the editor
"Graphic Symbols, Written Words", at the publisher Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura (within the editorial series "Temi e Testi"), Rome. To view the volumes published to date, please consult the webpage.
Statement of the Book Series: The Series aims to publish research on pragmatic literacy and the written culture of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. It is focused in particular on paleographical and critical analyses of written records that consider both text and graphic symbols as interrelated facets of written culture in this period.
Scientific Board: Serena Ammirati, François Bougard, Ainoa Castro-Correa, Lucio Del Corso, Carla Falluomini, David Ganz, Ildar Garipzanov, Antonella Ghignoli, Giulio Iovine, Maria Cristina La Rocca.
This is a peer reviewed Series.

The Book Series of which I am the co-editor
"Italia Regia. Fonti e ricerche per la storia medievale", edited by François Bougard, Antonella Ghignoli andWolfgang Huschner, at Eudora Verlag, Leipzig. To view the volumes published to date, please consult the webpage.
 

Antonella Ghignoli (Pontedera, PI, 14 May 1963) is since 2019 Full Professor in "Palaeography" (HIST-04/D) at Sapienza University of Rome, where she currently holds classes in "Writing, Literacy and Societies", "Diplomatics" and "Latin Paleography". She has also been appointed for the maximum possible term of six years, from 2018 to 2024, as a Senior Research Fellow for the Academic Classes of Humanities at Sapienza School for Advanced Studies. She is member of the "Sapienza Centre for the Study of the Mediterranean and Near East in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages" (currently as member of the elected Directory Board 2023-2025) and Faculty member of the PhD Program "Cultural Heritage Studies. Texts, Writings, Images" at Università "G. D'Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara.

Her teaching career began in 2001 as Assistant Professor in the same academic field at the University La Tuscia (Viterbo) and subsequently at the University of Florence, where she has been teaching classes in "Codicology", "Latin Palaeography", "Diplomatics", "History of Palaeography and Diplomatics". She held classes in Latin Palaeography and seminars in Diplomatics also abroad.

Her research activity began in 1989, and her main fields of interest include: writings and documents from the late antiquity to the early middle ages; charters of rulers and literacy in medieval Europe (7th.-12th. century); graphic, cultural, legal and political aspects of the activity of medieval notaries; literacy and writing practices of the communal age in Italy; transmission, textual criticism and critical edition of medieval documentary sources; methodology of history and research methodologies in palaeography and diplomatics; books and libraries of the Renaissance. Her bibliography began in 1991 and currently lists more than 160 journal and book publications. From 1989 to date she attended more than 40 international conferences and seminars as invited speaker (and 31 national conferences in the same role).

She directed and co-directed research projects funded both from the Italian Ministry of University and Reserch and foreign research institutions. In the call 2017 she has been granted an ERC Advanced Grant as Principal Investigator for the project NOTAE, acronym of «NOT A writtEn word but graphic symbols: An evidence-based reconstruction of another written world in pragmatic literacy from Late Antiquity to early medieval Europe», that she led from 2018 to 2024. Currently she is co-director (with Paul Bertrand, Université Catholique de Louvain, and Arianna D'Ottone Rambach, Sapienza University of Rome) of the international research program «DiploMA - Diplomatics in the Mediterranean Area», included among the "Programmes structurants 2022-2026, Axe 2 Création, patrimoine, mémoire" of the École Française de Rome.

She is editor of the Book Series «Graphic Symbols, Written Words» at Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura (Rome) and co-editor (with François Bougard, IRHT Paris, and Wolfgang Huschner, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften) of the Book Series «Italia Regia» at Eudora Verlag (Leipzig). She is also member of the Editorial Board of «Archivio storico italiano», the oldest Italian historical journal founded in 1842, and member of the Scientific Board of several academic journals, including «Scrineum. Saggi e materiali on line di scienze del libro e del documento medievali» and «Medioevo e Rinascimento». She works intensively as peer reviewer for many academic journals.

She is member of the "Comité International de Paléographie Latine" (CIPL), fellow of the "Associazione Italiana dei Paleografi e Diplomatisti" (AIPD) and currently she is member of other academic societies, including the "Association Paléographique Internationale. Culture Écriture Société" (APICES), "Società italiana per la storia medievale" (SISMED) and the Italian "Consulta Universitaria dei Paleografi Diplomatisti Codicologi" (CuPADIC).
In 2013 she was appointed as Deputy of the "Deputazione di Storia Patria per la Toscana" (by decree of appointment of the Italian Ministry of Culture, 13.05.2013) and in 2015 Corresponding member of the "Accademia Senese degli Intronati".

She has held and still holds positions of trust and responsibility in academic career and research evaluation, both in Italy (for the Ministry of Higher Education and ANVUR) and abroad. To mention only international experiences, she is currently member of the "Conseil Scientifique" of the École française de Rome (for the academic years 2023-2026 with renewal for 2027) and for the same French research institution she was appointed as a member of "Commission d'admission des membres scientifiques" from 2020 to 2023. She has also been commissioned by foreign universities (Belgium, Germany) and research organisations (ERC and the "Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften", among others) as an expert in the evaluation of academic careers and research projects.