dr Gabriele Bonomelli
Biography
Dr. Gabriele Bonomelli is currently employed as postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Medieval history of the University of Warsaw.
He obtained his PhD in Medieval history at the University of Bologna in 2022 (research project: “The political use of fiction. Fictitious letters in the Latin and Vernacular Middle Ages, 12th-15th C.”)
From 2023 to 2025 he worked as postdoc at the University of Kent (Newton International Fellow) on the research project “Dynamics of conflict. Original perspectives on religious turmoil in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1378-1603)”.
His research interests revolve around the political and institutional history of the Late Middle Ages as well as the critical edition of Latin primary sources.
Most important scholarly articles
Due redazioni di una lettera del Diavolo per Elisabetta I d’Inghilterra? Strategie di espressione del dissenso tra escatologia e demonismo (1587-1603), «Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa», LIX (2023/2), pp. 351-392 [link]
Roman and Avignonese propaganda in the aftermath of the Great Schism: a new perspective on a political clash from two inedited letters (1378-1389), «Reti Medievali Rivista», 24/1 (2023), pp. 97-142 [link]
‘Qui totum sibi vendicat quod scripserat esse suum’: the limits of papal dominium from a fictitious letter of 1307, «Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law», 38 (2021), pp. 251-289. [link]
La riflessione di Bonagrazia da Bergamo sul giuramento prestato al papa eretico: riadattamenti a una quaestio alla luce di un nuovo esemplare manoscritto (1328-1354), «Bullettino dell’istituto storico italiano per il Medio Evo», 123 (2021), pp. 197-239 [link]
Un trattato trecentesco inedito contro la Pastoralis cura: l’Epistola Henrici, «Studi medievali», 51-2 (2020), pp. 733-754 [link]
