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Angelo Silvestri

Dr Angelo Silvestri

Lecturer in Italian

School of Modern Languages

Email
SilvestriAM@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29206 88766
Campuses
66a Park Place, Room 1.38, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3AS
Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

I am a Lecturer in Italian and I am teaching Italian language and Italian history. My personal interests lie in English and European Medieval history. Specifically I am studying the structure of the medieval church and its influence on the medieval society. My attention is focused on the authority and the role of the bishop in England and in Europe from the Norman Conquest to the middle of the fourteenth century.

Publication

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Books

Thesis

Research

My research is focused on the evolution of the Christian faith and belief in Western Europe from the early centuries of the Middle Ages until the modern period. In the last ten centuries Christian values have been sturdily upheld or ferociously opposed, while nothing like the Christian belief has generated so much discussion, debate, controversy and conflict. In the name of Christianity people have been sanctified or killed, stunning works of art produced or destroyed, socio-political ideology reformed or crashed and yet the full scale of its real impact on our contemporary society still escape our grasp.

In light of this contradictory and conflictual context, my research investigates the social, political and artistic impact of Christianity upon Western European Culture, focussing on the ethic and aesthetic features Christianity contributed to introduce or to remove from our everyday life. I investigate how current and past historiography depicts Christianity and the Church hierarchical institution, with particular regard to the role of the bishops within the Catholic Church in Europe.

Biography

Academic history

PhD in Medieval History – Thesis on European Ecclesiastical History – Cardiff University – United Kingdom, 2013.

BA in Foreign Languages – Thesis on Germanic Philology Parma University – Italy, 2005.

BA in Philosophy – Thesis on Theoretical Philosophy Parma University – Italy, 1999.