Mattia Zangari

Dr. Mattia Zangari’s research interest has been in the field of female saints’ biographies. His PhD dissertation entitledHagiography, memorials and ‘fabulae depictae’  was completed in 2016 at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 2016, under the supervision of  Prof. Lina Bolzoni. Dr Zangari was a also “cotutelle” scholar at Ludwig – Maximilians Universität in Munich and a member of their Excellence Doctorate Programme (ZMR-Zentrum für Mittelalter- und Renaissancestudien). He also worked on Christian western female saints in the medieval and modern period and, in particular, on the “Vitae matrum” (a collection of women biographies written by the Dominican Thomas of Cantimpré), Santa Caterina da Siena, Sant’Angela da Foligno, Santa Caterina da Bologna, and the female saints of the Ottonian dynasty. He also studied the hagiography of female saints, Medieval transvestitism, treatises on mystical literature, and Medieval sacred works of art.