Isabella Gagliardi

Isabella Gagliardi is Associate Professor in History of Christianity and the Church History at University of Florence (Scuola di Studi Umanistici e della Formazione,  Dipartimento SAGAS) with National Abilitation to Full Professor since 2018. She works on the history of religious movements from antinquity to the early modern period; the history of cults of saints;  the transmission of hagiographic memory, of religious identities and of ascetical texts in the Mediterranean historical context; the history of religious experiences with a special attention to the women history. Her publications include: “Novellus Pazus”. Storie di santi medievali tra il Mar Caspio e il Mar Mediterraneo (secc. IV-XIV) (2017); Sola con Dio. La missione di Domenica da Paradiso nella Firenze del primo Cinquecento (2007); Li trofei della Croce. L’esperienza gesuata e la società lucchese tra Medioevo ed Età Moderna (2005); “I Pauperes Yesuati” tra esperienze religiose e conflitti istituzionali (2004). Her forthcoming book is tentatively entitled “Women and Faiths during the Middle Ages”.