Davide Cristoferi is FWO Senior Postdoctoral researcher at the History Department of Ghent University. His research studies economic inequality by focusing on different mechanisms of expropriation, management and redistribution of land and land revenues across Tuscany and, in a comparative perspective, Western Europe in late Middle Ages. In this regard, he studied the development of transhumance and the public management of common land in late medieval Southern Tuscany during his PhD in Medieval History and Cultural Heritage at the University of Siena (2016) and the role of mezzadria in shaping socio-economic inequalities in late medieval Tuscany at Ghent University (GINi project, 2015-2020).

Davide Cristoferi a obtenu le titre de docteur en Histoire médiévale et Biens culturels à l’Université de Sienne (2016). Actuellement il est titulaire d’une bourse de postdoctorat par le FWO (2020-23) depuis avoir participé avec une bourse de doctorat en Histoire économique et sociale et Business Economics au Projet GINI (Growth, Inequality and Institutions) de l’Université de Gand (2015-2020). Ses recherches portent sur l'histoire rurale et économique de la Toscane du Moyen Age tardif et du début de l'époque moderne. En particulier, il étudie le développement de la transhumance et du métayage dans la région de Sienne (2012-2016, sous la direction de M. Ginatempo) et de Florence entre le XIVe et le début du XVIe siècle (2015- 2019, sous la direction de E. Thoen) et le rôle des institutions économiques et politiques que peuvent expliquer ces transformation agraires.

Davide Cristoferi è Dottore di ricerca in Storia Medievale presso l’Università di Siena (2016). Attualmente è ricercatore post-doc per l'FWO (2020-23) dopo essere stato membro del progetto GINI (Growth, Inequality & Institutions) presso l’Università di Gent con una borsa di dottorato in Storia Economica e Sociale e Business Economics (2015-2020). Le sue ricerche vertono sulla storia rurale ed economica della Toscana tardo medievale e primo moderna, in particolare sullo sviluppo della transumanza e della mezzadria poderale in area senese (2012-2016, supervisor M. Ginatempo) e fiorentina fra Trecento e primo Cinquecento (2015-2020, supervisor E. Thoen) e sul ruolo delle istituzioni economiche e politiche ad esse correlate.

Projects

Projects as postdoc

Economic inequality on the eve of the late medieval crisis. Two regions compared, Tuscany and Northern France, c.1295-c.1320 (2020 - 2023)

Projects as PhD researcher

Publications

Key publications

Il 'reame' di Siena : la costruzione della Dogana dei Paschi e la svolta del Tardo Medioevo in Maremma (metà XIV-inizi XV sec.)(2021)
- Davide Cristoferi
Socio-economic inequalities in fifteenth-century Tuscany : the role of the mezzadria system(2020)
- Davide Cristoferi
'I nostri contadini solevano istare molto meglio per lo addrieto che ora' : mezzadria, proprietà cittadina e disuguaglianza economica in Toscana, sec. XV-XVI(2020)
- Davide Cristoferi
The role of marginal landscape for understanding transhumance in Southern Tuscany (twelfth-twentieth century AD) : a reverse perspective integrating ethnoarchaeological and historical approaches(2018)
- Edoardo Vanni
- Davide Cristoferi
I conﬂitti per il controllo delle risorse collettive in un’area di dogana (Toscana meridionale, XIV-XV secolo)(2017)
- Davide Cristoferi

Most recent publications

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Teaching

In a.a. 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23 I have been appointed as co-lecturer for the course Critical Global Theories, taught by Prof. Dr. E. Vanhaute for the MA in Global Studies at Ghent University.

In a.a. 2018-19 I have been appointed as co-lecturer for the course Comparative Rural History, taught by Prof. Dr. T. Lambrecht for the BA in History and in Archaeology at Ghent University.