Anna Esposito

Anna Esposito is associate professor of medieval history at the Department of History, Culture, Religions of the University of Rome La Sapienza and is a member of the teaching staff of the doctorate "History, Anthropology, Religions" of the aforementioned university. She is also an ordinary member of the Roman Society of Homeland History and of the Italian Association for the Study of Judaism (AISG), and is a scientific correspondent of the National Institute of Roman Studies. He is a founding member of the association Roma nel Rinascimento. Among his interests, the urban social history of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance is particularly relevant, which is investigated in its economic, cultural and religious connotations, with particular reference to the city of Rome and the Papal State. In this context, studies on minorities, especially the Jewish one, on confraternity associations and on welfare institutions, especially those aimed at female users, and finally on the cultural institutions of the city are included. Among his numerous publications are the two essays in the volumes of the series Storia di Roma published in 2000-2001 by Laterza publishing house titled respectively Roma medievale, edited by André Vauchez, and Roma del Rinascimento, curated by Antonio Pinelli; the volume Un’altra Roma.Minoranze nazionali e comunità ebraiche tra Medioevo e Rinascimento, Roma, Il Calamo, 1995, the two volumes                          I processi contro gli ebrei di Trento (1475-1478)", I, I processi del 1475, Padova, Cedam, 1990; I processi contro gli ebrei di Trento (1475-1478)", II, I processi alle donne (1475-1476), Padova, Cedam, 2008 (both volumes in collaboration with Diego Quaglioni); and more recently the essays: Alla corte di papi: archiatri pontifici ebrei tra ‘400 e ‘500, in Être médecin à la cour (Italie, France, Espagne, XIIIe-XVIIIe siècle), teste réunis par E. Andretta – M. Nicoud, Firenze 2013 –SISMEL- (Micrologus’ Library 52), pp. 17-32; Violent Conflicts and Murder Involving Jews in Renaissance Italy, in Murder in Renaissance Italy, ed. by T. Dean - K.J.P. Lowe, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 211-227; Il contributo dell’emigrazione slava e albanese al popolamento dei territori umbro-laziali tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento, in La popolazione italiana del Quattrocento e Cinquecento, by G. Alfani, A. Carbone, B. Del Bo and R. Rao, Udine, Forum, 2016 , pp. 161-171; Die Augustinerkonvente von Rom während Luthers Aufenthal in der Stadt, in M. Matheus, A.  Nesselrath, M. Wallraff (Hgs.), Berlin – Boston, De Gruyter, 2017, pp. 91-105. The interest of gender has been realized in the curating of the volumes Donne del rinascimento a Roma e dintorni, Roma, Roma nel Rinascimento e Fondazione Besso, 2013; Lucrezia e le altre: la vita difficile delle donne (Roma e Lazio, secc. XV-XVI), Roma - RR e Fondazione Besso – 2015; Violenza alle donne. Una prospettiva medievale, (insieme a F. Franceschi e G. Piccinni), Bologna,  Il Mulino, 2018, and in the essay L’agire delle donne romane nella trasmissione della memoria, in A. Cavallaro, A. Esposito, A. Rehberg, Donne di pietra. Immagini, vicende, protagoniste delle sepolture romane del Rinascimento: una ricerca in corso, in "Mélanges de l'EFR", Moyen Age, 127-1 (2015), online https://mefrm.revues.org/2406