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Martina Saltamacchia

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Martina Saltamacchia, PhD

Martina Saltamacchia, PhD

  • Distinguished Associate Professor
  • Director, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
  • Graduate Program Chair
  • Medieval History, Economic History, Social & Religious History

email:
msaltamacchia@unomaha.edu
office:
  • ASH 287L
office phone:
402.554.4826

Additional Information

Education

Ph.D. in Medieval History, Rutgers University (2013)

Ph.D. in Economics and Social History, Bocconi University (Milan, Italy--2011)

Laurea in Economics, Bocconi University (Milan, Italy--2004)
Background

Dr. Saltamacchia specializes in Medieval Italian History. Her current project centers on Marco Carelli, a very wealthy Milanese merchant who in 1390 decided to donate nearly all of his immense patrimony to jump start the construction of Milan’s great new cathedral.

Her undergraduate thesis on the construction of the Cathedral of Milan in the XIV century and the people who donated money and goods for the work was published as Milano: Un Popolo e il suo Duomo (Marietti: Genova, 2007), and revised with integrated material from new research as Costruire Cattedrali (Marietti: Genova, 2011). Her analysis reversed the classic interpretation by historians who attributed the cathedral’s construction to Prince Gian Galeazzo Visconti. Starting from the study of the Registers of Donations, Saltamacchia demonstrated, instead, that nearly all the revenue supporting the construction came not from the prince, but from the Milanese people, who contributed thousands of small offerings– an egg, a piece of cheese, or a little coin.

Most recently, she published “The Prince and the Prostitute: Competing Sovereignties in Fourteenth-Century Milan,” in Law and Sovereignty in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011).

She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship, two Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Summer Research Grants, a Medieval Academy of America E. K. Rand Dissertation Grant, the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research - Rutgers University, and a Rotary Club Ambassadorial Scholar Fellowship.

Frequently Taught Courses

Medieval Europe (HIST 4540/8546)

Medieval Merchants (HIST 4910/8916)

The Crusades (HIST 4910/8916)

Castles and Cathedrals (HIST 4910/8916)

World Civilizations I (HIST 1000)

Publications

Costruire Cattedrali. Il popolo del Duomo di Milano (Italian) (Marietti, 2011)

Milano, un popolo e il suo Duomo (Italian) (Marietti, 2007)

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