Federica Gigante
@fgigante.bsky.social
Early Modern History, Islamic Art History, History of Science | University of Oxford | University of Cambridge | I Tatti
My book is now out! 🎉
Islamic Objects in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court @edinburghup.bsky.social
Very exciting to see it in the flesh ☺️
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Islamic Objects in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court @edinburghup.bsky.social
Very exciting to see it in the flesh ☺️
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October 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
My book is now out! 🎉
Islamic Objects in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court @edinburghup.bsky.social
Very exciting to see it in the flesh ☺️
[Discount code: NEW30]
Islamic Objects in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court @edinburghup.bsky.social
Very exciting to see it in the flesh ☺️
[Discount code: NEW30]
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!
We are looking for contributors to our panel on Manipulations 🤚– the practice of retouching, repurposing, and reframing objects as they move across cultural boundaries and owners – for the Renaissance Society of America annual conference in San Francisco, RSA 2026
We are looking for contributors to our panel on Manipulations 🤚– the practice of retouching, repurposing, and reframing objects as they move across cultural boundaries and owners – for the Renaissance Society of America annual conference in San Francisco, RSA 2026
July 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!
We are looking for contributors to our panel on Manipulations 🤚– the practice of retouching, repurposing, and reframing objects as they move across cultural boundaries and owners – for the Renaissance Society of America annual conference in San Francisco, RSA 2026
We are looking for contributors to our panel on Manipulations 🤚– the practice of retouching, repurposing, and reframing objects as they move across cultural boundaries and owners – for the Renaissance Society of America annual conference in San Francisco, RSA 2026
🚨PhD studentship now open! 🚨
Come and join our research group UNSEEN in Oxford to work on Slavery and the European Encounter with Islamic Material Culture (1580–1700) starting October 2025.
You will be supervised by myself and be based at Exeter College 👇🏻
orinst.web.ox.ac.uk/ames-dphil#t...
Come and join our research group UNSEEN in Oxford to work on Slavery and the European Encounter with Islamic Material Culture (1580–1700) starting October 2025.
You will be supervised by myself and be based at Exeter College 👇🏻
orinst.web.ox.ac.uk/ames-dphil#t...
DPhil Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
orinst.web.ox.ac.uk
May 12, 2025 at 7:34 AM
🚨PhD studentship now open! 🚨
Come and join our research group UNSEEN in Oxford to work on Slavery and the European Encounter with Islamic Material Culture (1580–1700) starting October 2025.
You will be supervised by myself and be based at Exeter College 👇🏻
orinst.web.ox.ac.uk/ames-dphil#t...
Come and join our research group UNSEEN in Oxford to work on Slavery and the European Encounter with Islamic Material Culture (1580–1700) starting October 2025.
You will be supervised by myself and be based at Exeter College 👇🏻
orinst.web.ox.ac.uk/ames-dphil#t...
📢 JOB OPENING 📢
I am thrilled to announce that the first postdoc position of my ERC project UNSEEN at Oxford is now live!
This is a three-year post for an Iberian historian who will be working on slavery and Islamic material culture in the early modern Mediterranean.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
I am thrilled to announce that the first postdoc position of my ERC project UNSEEN at Oxford is now live!
This is a three-year post for an Iberian historian who will be working on slavery and Islamic material culture in the early modern Mediterranean.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
March 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
📢 JOB OPENING 📢
I am thrilled to announce that the first postdoc position of my ERC project UNSEEN at Oxford is now live!
This is a three-year post for an Iberian historian who will be working on slavery and Islamic material culture in the early modern Mediterranean.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
I am thrilled to announce that the first postdoc position of my ERC project UNSEEN at Oxford is now live!
This is a three-year post for an Iberian historian who will be working on slavery and Islamic material culture in the early modern Mediterranean.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
🥳 New publication! The article analyses a 13th-century church fresco depicting an Islamic tent repurposed as an altar baldachin.
To Jon Thompson who passed in 2020, for encouraging me to write the first draft.
www.burlington.org.uk/current-issue
To Jon Thompson who passed in 2020, for encouraging me to write the first draft.
www.burlington.org.uk/current-issue
Burlington Magazine
The Burlington Magazine is the world's leading monthly publication devoted to the fine and decorative arts.
www.burlington.org.uk
February 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🥳 New publication! The article analyses a 13th-century church fresco depicting an Islamic tent repurposed as an altar baldachin.
To Jon Thompson who passed in 2020, for encouraging me to write the first draft.
www.burlington.org.uk/current-issue
To Jon Thompson who passed in 2020, for encouraging me to write the first draft.
www.burlington.org.uk/current-issue
Reposted by Federica Gigante
Read more: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/altar-t...
February 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Hidden in Plain Sight: A Medieval Fresco Shows Islamic Tents Used in Christian Churches - research by @fgigante.bsky.social https://www.medievalists.net/2025/02/hidden-in-plain-sight-a-medieval-fresco-shows-islamic-tents-used-in-christian-churches/ #medieval
Hidden in Plain Sight: A Medieval Fresco Shows Islamic Tents Used in Christian Churches - Medievalists.net
A forgotten fresco in an Italian church has revealed a surprising medieval practice—Islamic tents were used to cover Christian altars. The 13th-century fresco, recently rediscovered in Ferrara,…
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February 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Hidden in Plain Sight: A Medieval Fresco Shows Islamic Tents Used in Christian Churches - research by @fgigante.bsky.social https://www.medievalists.net/2025/02/hidden-in-plain-sight-a-medieval-fresco-shows-islamic-tents-used-in-christian-churches/ #medieval
The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes is out! Our article (Gigante & Burnett) "Casaubon on Arabic and Turkish Coins: a European Network of Exchange" doi.org/10.1086/732274 deals with French collectors, Dutch professors, Venetian dragomans and Moroccan captives.
(DM for free access)
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February 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes is out! Our article (Gigante & Burnett) "Casaubon on Arabic and Turkish Coins: a European Network of Exchange" doi.org/10.1086/732274 deals with French collectors, Dutch professors, Venetian dragomans and Moroccan captives.
(DM for free access)
(DM for free access)
My book now has a cover!
Islamic Objects in 17th-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court
Out shortly with Edinburgh University Press
@edinburghup.bsky.social
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Islamic Objects in 17th-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court
Out shortly with Edinburgh University Press
@edinburghup.bsky.social
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December 23, 2024 at 2:20 PM
My book now has a cover!
Islamic Objects in 17th-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court
Out shortly with Edinburgh University Press
@edinburghup.bsky.social
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Islamic Objects in 17th-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court
Out shortly with Edinburgh University Press
@edinburghup.bsky.social
·
🥳New publication! “Casaubon on Arabic and Turkish Coins. A European Network of Exchange,” with Andrew Burnett in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
@warburginstitute.bsky.social.
With many thanks to my coauthor for his patience and good humour.
doi.org/10.1086/732274
#numismatics
@warburginstitute.bsky.social.
With many thanks to my coauthor for his patience and good humour.
doi.org/10.1086/732274
#numismatics
November 27, 2024 at 8:53 AM
🥳New publication! “Casaubon on Arabic and Turkish Coins. A European Network of Exchange,” with Andrew Burnett in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
@warburginstitute.bsky.social.
With many thanks to my coauthor for his patience and good humour.
doi.org/10.1086/732274
#numismatics
@warburginstitute.bsky.social.
With many thanks to my coauthor for his patience and good humour.
doi.org/10.1086/732274
#numismatics
Reposted by Federica Gigante
"A powerful record of scientific exchange between Arabs, Jews, & Christians over 100s of years."
arstechnica.com/science/2024...
arstechnica.com/science/2024...
March 5, 2024 at 7:10 PM
"A powerful record of scientific exchange between Arabs, Jews, & Christians over 100s of years."
arstechnica.com/science/2024...
arstechnica.com/science/2024...
Reposted by Federica Gigante
The Festschrift for Charles Burnett has been published.
Ann Giletti, Dag Nikolaus Hasse (eds), "Mastering Nature in the Medieval Arabic and Latin Worlds. Studies in Heritage and Transfer of Arabic Science in Honour of Charles Burnett."
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
#menasky #histsci #medievalsky
Ann Giletti, Dag Nikolaus Hasse (eds), "Mastering Nature in the Medieval Arabic and Latin Worlds. Studies in Heritage and Transfer of Arabic Science in Honour of Charles Burnett."
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
#menasky #histsci #medievalsky
January 18, 2024 at 7:38 PM
The Festschrift for Charles Burnett has been published.
Ann Giletti, Dag Nikolaus Hasse (eds), "Mastering Nature in the Medieval Arabic and Latin Worlds. Studies in Heritage and Transfer of Arabic Science in Honour of Charles Burnett."
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
#menasky #histsci #medievalsky
Ann Giletti, Dag Nikolaus Hasse (eds), "Mastering Nature in the Medieval Arabic and Latin Worlds. Studies in Heritage and Transfer of Arabic Science in Honour of Charles Burnett."
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
#menasky #histsci #medievalsky
Reposted by Federica Gigante
✨EVENT: 29 Jan, MICROHISTORIES OF EARLY MODERN DIPLOMACY, hybrid
Join us at the Faculty of History (Boardroom) or on Zoom (5-6:30 pm) for our first session of 2024 with Elvira Tamus (camhistory.bsky.social) and Marissa Smit-Bose (Harvard, History).
Email camwemp2023@gmail.com for the Zoom link
👇
Join us at the Faculty of History (Boardroom) or on Zoom (5-6:30 pm) for our first session of 2024 with Elvira Tamus (camhistory.bsky.social) and Marissa Smit-Bose (Harvard, History).
Email camwemp2023@gmail.com for the Zoom link
👇
January 24, 2024 at 9:24 AM
✨EVENT: 29 Jan, MICROHISTORIES OF EARLY MODERN DIPLOMACY, hybrid
Join us at the Faculty of History (Boardroom) or on Zoom (5-6:30 pm) for our first session of 2024 with Elvira Tamus (camhistory.bsky.social) and Marissa Smit-Bose (Harvard, History).
Email camwemp2023@gmail.com for the Zoom link
👇
Join us at the Faculty of History (Boardroom) or on Zoom (5-6:30 pm) for our first session of 2024 with Elvira Tamus (camhistory.bsky.social) and Marissa Smit-Bose (Harvard, History).
Email camwemp2023@gmail.com for the Zoom link
👇
Tomorrow, 1 November in London, where I am speaking about Islamic art in early modern Italy (sold out in presence but available live on YouTube)
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Islam in Europe
Islam in Europe
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October 31, 2023 at 9:55 AM
Tomorrow, 1 November in London, where I am speaking about Islamic art in early modern Italy (sold out in presence but available live on YouTube)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/islam-in-e...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/islam-in-e...
