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Andrea Maraschi. Completed the Doktor (PhD) in Storia medievale in 2013/12/13 by Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, Master in Culture del Medioevo e Archivistica in 2010/07/17 by Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà and Bachelor in Lettere moderne (Curriculum: Storico) in 2008 by Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Lingue Letterature e Culture Moderne. Works in the area(s) of Humanities with emphasis on History and Archaeology. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: astronomy; gender studies; cultural memory; food history; magic; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Andrea Maraschi

Citation names

  • Maraschi, Andrea

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0F1C-807D-838A
ORCID iD
0000-0002-5220-0114

Websites

  • https://uniba-it.academia.edu/AndreaMaraschi (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - History and Archaeology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Elementary (A2) Proficiency (C2) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Advanced (C1) Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Icelandic Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
German Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Latin Beginner (A1) Advanced (C1) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1)
Germanic languages (Other) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2013/12/13
Concluded
 Storia medievale (Dottorato di Ricerca)
Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, Italy
2010/07/17
Concluded
 Culture del Medioevo e Archivistica (Laurea Specialistica)
Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, Italy
2008
Concluded
 Lettere moderne (Curriculum: Storico) (Bachelor)
Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Lingue Letterature e Culture Moderne, Italy
Affiliation

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/12/10 - Current Fellow Società italiana degli storici medievisti, Italy
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2014/10/01 - 2017/10/01 Food and sympathetic magic in medieval Iceland: cannibalism and graphophagy
1
Post-doc Fellow
Háskóli Islands, Iceland
 Háskóli Islands
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/12/15 - Current Una nuova storia dei Valdesi. Il medioevo: diventare eretici
4
Research Fellow
Ongoing

Other

Designation Funders
2017/03/02 - Current The uncertain borders of nature. Wonders and miracles in early modern Kingdom of Naples.
2017EX5AC3
Researcher
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Ongoing
2019/01/04 - 2019/11/04 Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150-1400
2
Researcher
Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, Iceland
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Maraschi, Andrea. Similia similibus curantur. Cannibalismo, grafofagia e “magia” simpatetica nel Medioevo (500-1500). Cisam. 2020.
    Published
  2. Maraschi, Andrea. Un banchetto per sposarsi. Matrimonio e rituali alimentari nell’Occidente altomedievale. Cisam. 2014.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Maraschi, Andrea. "A World Imbued With Sorcery? The Fight between Christian and non-Christian Powers in 4th- and 5th-Century Christendom". In Civilizations of the Supernatural: Witchcraft, Ritual, and Religious Experience in Late Antique, Medieval, and Renaissance Traditions. 2021.
    Accepted
  2. Maraschi, Andrea. "Companions of God. Horses in Early Medieval Hagiography (VI-VII Cent.)". In Saints and Sinners on Horseback. 2021.
    Accepted
  3. Maraschi, Andrea. "Sympathetic Graphophagy in Late Medieval Scandinavian Leechbooks and Collections of Charms". In Civilizations of the Supernatural: Witchcraft, Ritual, and Religious Experience in Late Antique, Medieval, and Renaissance Traditions, 247-264. 2020.
  4. Maraschi, Andrea. "The Power of Eating Together, or the Story of Why Banquets Were the Core of Marriage in the Past". In Food&Power: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery 2019, 192-200. 2020.
  5. Maraschi, Andrea. "Þórgunna’s Dinner and Other Medieval Liminal Meals: Food as Mediator between this World and the Hereafter". In Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150–1400, 49-70. Medieval Institute Publications, 2020.
    10.1515/9781501513862-005
  6. Maraschi, Andrea. "The Seed of Hope: Acorns from Famine Food to Delicacy in European History". In Seeds: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium onFood & Cookery 2018, 177-185. 2019.
  7. Maraschi, Andrea. "Un lessico universale. La figura biblica del banchetto di nozze e la sua ricezione nell'alto Medioevo". In Fonti per lo studio delle culture antiche e medievali. 2014.
    Published • 10.6092/unibo/amsacta/3449
Journal article
  1. Maraschi, Andrea. "Taboo or Magic Practice? Cannibalism as Identity Marker for Giants and Human Heroes in Medieval Iceland". Parergon 37 1 (2020): 1-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2020.0056.
    10.1353/pgn.2020.0056
  2. Maraschi, Andrea. "Wine, bread, and water, between doctrine and alternative. Norms and practical issues concerning the Eucharist and baptism in thirteenth-century Europe". Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura 19 (2019): 323-344. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/1645-2259_19_14.
    10.14195/1645-2259_19_14
  3. Maraschi, Andrea. "The Impact of Christianization on Identity-Marking Foods in the Medieval North: Between Pagan Survivals, New Dietary Restrictions, and Magic Practice". Food and History 17 2 (2019): 153-181. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/j.food.5.121083.
    10.1484/j.food.5.121083
  4. Maraschi, Andrea. "There is More than Meets the Eye. Undead, Ghosts and Spirits in the Decretum of Burchard of Worms". Thanatos 8 1 (2019): 29-61.
  5. Maraschi, Andrea. "Learning from the Past to Understand the Present. 536 A.D. and Its Consequences for Mythical (and Historical) Landscapes". Ceræ: an Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 6 (2019): 23-44.
  6. Maraschi, Andrea; Valdaliso-Casanova, Covadonga; De Campos, Maria Amélia Álvaro. "Red Lights in the Sky, Hunger in Sight. Aurora Borealis and Famine Between Experience and Rhetoric in the Early Middle Ages". Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura 18 (2018): 279-281. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/1645-2259_18_14.
    10.14195/1645-2259_18_14
  7. Maraschi, Andrea; Tasca, Francesca. "Aux limites de l’hérésie et de la magie. L’ordalie du pain et du fromage". Food and History 16 1 (2018): 49-67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/j.food.5.117095.
    10.1484/j.food.5.117095
  8. Maraschi, Andrea. "When Banquets Were Dangerous for the Soul. Church Opposition to Wedding Feasts in Medieval Times". Proceedings of the 2018 Dublin Gastronomy Symposium (2018): https://arrow.dit.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1114&context=dgs.
  9. Maraschi, Andrea. "Hunger Games: Magic, Miracles and Rituals to Fight Famine in Medieval Scandinavia". Arkiv för nordisk filologi 133 (2018): 29-51.
  10. Maraschi, Andrea. "Eaten Hearts and Supernatural Knowledge in Eiríks saga rauða". Scandia: Journal of Medieval Norse Studies 1 (2018): 25-47. ttp://www.periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/scandia/article/view/41271/21456.
  11. Maraschi, Andrea. "Sympathy for the Lord. The Host and elements of sympathetic magic in late medieval exempla". Journal of medieval religious cultures 43 3 (2017): 209-230.
  12. Maraschi, Andrea. "Cibo e miracoli nella letteratura agiografica altomedievale (VI-VII sec)". Proposte e ricerche 71 2 (2013): 145-167.
    Published
  13. Maraschi, Andrea. "I miracoli alimentari di San Colombano: l’originalità, la tradizione e la simbologia". Studi medievali 52 (2011): 517-576.
    Published
Activities

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2017/10/11 - Current Mangiare, condividere, legittimare. Il banchetto nuziale come “rituale di passaggio” attraverso i secoli. University of Parma, 11/10/2017 (2017/10/11)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Università degli Studi di Parma Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Aziendali, Italy
2016/11/14 - 2016/11/16 The forbidden feast Regulating the social power of commensality – a diachronic approach (14-15 November 2016, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen).This workshop is concerned with the social capital of commensal events; happenings where people ate and drank together in a ritualised manner. Commensality was (and is) an integral part of life, and (archaeological) traces of it can be found in various contexts, such as settlements, sanctuaries and cemeteries, but commensal events are also amply described in historical sources. By adopting a diachronic approach, (2016/11/14 - 2016/11/16)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Afdeling Archeologie, Netherlands
2013/09/17 - 2013/09/19 Il cavaliere inesistente: la figura di Alberto da Giussano tra medioevo e contemporaneità (with E. Bacchi, M. Cavalazzi, E. Dumas), University of Bologna (2012). The workshop focused on the figure of Alberto da Giussano, captain of the "Society of Death", who was considered a protagonist of the battle of Legnan (1176) between the Lombard League and Frederick I. (2013/09/17 - 2013/09/19)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, Italy

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2020/10/30 - Current “Magia e religione nell’alto medioevo: amuleti, pozioni, e formule da ‘ingerire’”, Università di Bologna, 30/10/2020
Seminar
 Medioevo e Magia
Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, Italy
2020/05/11 - Current “Middle Rages: la battaglia per l’appropriazione del medioevo”, Ciclo di seminari “Anatomia del mondo contemporaneo”, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Dipartimento LeLiA, 11/05/2020
Conference
 Ciclo di seminari “Anatomia del mondo contemporaneo”
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Dipartimento di Lettere Lingue Arti Italianistica e culture comparate, Italy
2019/11/19 - Current “Il santo, il guerriero, il contadino. Forme di eroismo nel ‘medioevo’”, Ciclo di seminari “Eroi ed eroismo”, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Dipartimento LeLiA, 19/11/2019
Conference
 Ciclo di seminari “Eroi ed eroismo”
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Dipartimento di Lettere Lingue Arti Italianistica e culture comparate, Italy
2019/11/12 - Current “Suo specialiter, sua singulariter. L’amore proibito di Pietro Abelardo ed Eloisa”, Ciclo di seminari “Amori proibiti”, Uniba, Dipartimento LeLiA, 12/11/2019
Conference
 Ciclo di seminari “Amori proibiti”
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Dipartimento di Lettere Lingue Arti Italianistica e culture comparate, Italy
2019/06/15 - Current “Il miele nella storia gastronomica occidentale: dai calici degli dèi alle tavole rinascimentali”, 15 giugno 2019, Palazzo Cesi, Acquasparta: Il miele. Dall’Apiarium di Federico il Lince al palato: per un percorso storico-sensoriale lungo i secoli, a cura di A. Dal Bosco
Conference
 Il miele. Dall’Apiarium di Federico il Lince al palato: per un percorso storico-sensoriale lungo i secoli
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Italy
2018/06/06 - Current Eating spells and prayers: medicinal remedies between magic, religion and science in the late-medieval North, Religioni e Medicina. Dall’Antichità all’Età contemporanea (5-9 giugno 2018, Velletri)
Conference
 Religioni e Medicina. Dall’Antichità all’Età contemporanea
Museo delle religioni "Raffaele Pettazzoni", Italy
2018/05/29 - Current When banquets were dangerous for the soul. Church opposition to wedding feasts in early medieval times, Dublin Gastronomy Symposium 2018, 29-30 May, 2018
Congress
 Dublin Gastronomy Symposium 2018
Technological University Dublin, Ireland
2017/03/17 - Current Forever young, forever full. Magic, faith and the annihilation of time in Medieval Icelandic literature, ‘Time, Space & Narrative in Medieval Icelandic Literature’ 17th-18th March 2017, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland)
Congress
 Time, Space & Narrative in Medieval Icelandic Literature
Háskóli Islands, Iceland
2016/07/05 - Current Hunger games: magic, miracles and rituals to fight famine in medieval Scandinavia, International Medieval Congress 2016, Leeds, 4-7 July 2016
Congress
 International Medieval Congress 2016
University of Leeds, United Kingdom
2016/05/26 - Current Solar cycle, climatic events and famine in Late Medieval Europe: is there a correlation between wheat prices and aurora borealis?, in Le temps et les temps: phénomènes naturel, disettes et approvisionnement alimentaire entre le moyen âge et les temps modernes, with Alessandra Cianciosi, Elisa Erioli and Francesca Pucci Donati, 2e Conférence Internationale d’Histoire et des Cultures de l’Alimentation, Tours (France), 26-27 May 2016
Congress
 2e Conférence Internationale d’Histoire et des Cultures de l’Alimentation
Université de Tours, France
2015/11/18 - Current L'occhio e la sua parte: Maestro Martino e la spettacolarità dei banchetti bassomedievali, University of Macerata, 18 November 2015
Conference
 L'occhio e la sua parte: Maestro Martino e la spettacolarità dei banchetti bassomedievali
Università degli Studi di Macerata, Italy
2015/07/14 - Current From the Otherworld to Heaven. Alterations in the symbolic significance of food in Ireland from pagan to Christian times, 15th International Congress of Celtic Studies 13-17 July 2015, Glasgow (UK)
Congress
 15th International Congress of Celtic Studies
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
2015/03/26 - Current Feeding the soul. The magic and divine taste of the Host in late medieval exempla, First International Conference on Food History and Food Studies 26-27 March 2015, Tours (France)
Congress
 First International Conference on Food History and Food Studies
Université de Tours Département d'Histoire et d'Archéologie, France
2014/11/25 - Current Conference presentation: Food is language. Utopias and daily basic needs in the Middle Ages, 25 November 2014, Miðaldastofa Háskóla Íslands, Reykjavík (University of Iceland)
Conference
 Miðaldastofa Háskóla Íslands Lectures Series 2014
Háskóli Islands, Iceland
2014/03/04 - Current Alimentazione e comunicazione nel Medioevo, 4 March 2014, University of Macerata
Conference
 Alimentazione e comunicazione nel Medioevo
Università degli Studi di Macerata, Italy
2020/09/03 - 2020/09/06 Book presentation: "Similia similibus curantur. Cannibalismo, grafofagia, e "magia" simpatetica nel medioevo (500-1500)", Spoleto: CISAM, 2020, Festival di Antropologia e Storia delle Religioni “Nella Terra di Diana” (Genzano di Roma-Nemi, 3-6 settembre 2020)
Conference
 Festival di Antropologia e Storia delle Religioni “Nella Terra di Diana”
Museo delle religioni "Raffaele Pettazzoni", Italy
2019/07/12 - 2019/07/14 The power of eating together, or the story of why banquets were the core of marriage in the past, Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery 2019
Congress
 Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery 2019
University of Oxford Saint Catherine's College, United Kingdom
2018/07/06 - 2018/07/08 The seed of hope. Acorns from famine food to delicacy in European history, Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery 2018
Congress
 Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery 2018
University of Oxford Saint Catherine's College, United Kingdom
2015/07/03 - 2015/07/04 Signs in the early medieval skies. Why, what...and who?, 3rd annual Networks & Neighbours Symposium 3-4 July 2015, Leeds (UK)
Conference
 3rd annual Networks & Neighbours Symposium
University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2020/12/10 - Current SISMED: Società italiana degli storici medievisti Fellow

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2016/06/01 - 2016/08/01 Scientific consultant to the historical reconstruction company Associazione Mercato delle Gaite (Bevagna, PG - Italy) with regard to medieval cookery and eating habits (2016) Associazione Mercato delle Gait, Italy
2014/03/01 - 2015/03/01 Scientific consultant to the historical reconstruction company Ente Palio di San Floriano (Jesi, AN - Italy) with regard to medieval cookery and eating habits (2014) Ente Palio San Floriano, Italy

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/02/01 - 2021/02/01 Spring 2020 Medieval History (Bachelor) Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
2019/02/01 - 2020/02/01 Spring 2019 Medieval History (Bachelor) Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
2018/02/01 - 2019/02/01 Spring 2018 Medieval History (Bachelor) Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
2016/02/01 - 2017/02/01 Spring 2016 Food and Wine History and Anthropology (Laurea Magistrale) Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
2015/08/20 - 2015/12/20 Fall 2015 Food history in the Middle Ages: Facts and Mentalities (Bachelor) Háskóli Islands, Iceland

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2019/04/01 - Current Ox Tales podcast, the Oxford Symposium of Food & Cookery official podcast Episode 10 “Acorns and Civilized Panic”, April 1st, 2019
2018/08/27 - Current Bbc Radio 4 The Food Programme, 27/08/2018 Food history
Distinctions

Award

2018 2018 Oxford Symposium on Food&Cookery Outstanding New Presenter Award
Oxford Food Symposium, United Kingdom

Other distinction

2015 Scholarship for the LXIII Settimana di Studi di Spoleto (9-14 April 2015), Fondazione CISAM (Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo): L’alimentazione nell’alto medioevo. Pratiche, simboli, ideologie
Fondazione Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo, Italy
2012 Scholarship Marco Polo supplied by the University of Bologna for a three-month training period (January/April 2012) at King’s College London
Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, Italy
2009 Scholarship for the LVII Settimana di Studi di Spoleto (16-21 April 2009), Fondazione CISAM (Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo): L’irlanda e gli irlandesi nell’alto Medioevo
Fondazione Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo, Italy