«Reversed Migration»
The Walloon Settlers in Medieval Transylvania and their Cultural Identity (12th – 14th century)
PN-III-CEI-BIM-PBE-2020-0024
MIGRATION 1.0 Project Partners Partner Teams Activities and Objectives Outputs
The joint research team includes overall 11 members, each of them with a specific scientific profile, different roles, assignments, and involvement in the project.
The Romanian team comprises 6 members:
Adinel-Ciprian Dincă (PhD, Associate Professor, Fac. of History and Philosophy, UBB) – coordinator of the Romanian team, director of TRANS.SCRIPT. Author of over 60 scholarly texts (books, critical editions, studies, articles, translations and exhibition catalogues) on medieval Transylvanian literacy and church history with special focus on Transylvanian Saxons. He received funding from science organizations in Romania or Germany and collaborated in several other national and international projects. He is associated editor of three Romanian scientific publications and member of a series of scientific associations. Areas of expertise: Latin palaeography and diplomatic, history of the Transylvanian bishopric, the medieval foundations of the Transylvanian Saxons’ cultural identity (anthroponomy, literate mentality).
Iulian-Mihai Damian (PhD, Assistant Prof., Fac. of Letters, UBB Cluj-Napoca). BA in Classical Philology, MA and PhD in History. Specialisation courses at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (2003-2006), at the University of Genève (2006-2007) and at the Warburg Institute in London (2010). From 2007 to 2017 he worked as scientific secretary to the Romanian Academy in Rome. From 2012 teaches Latin at the Faculty of Letters, UBB. Areas of expertise: Latin philology, cultural studies, crusading history.
Oana Toda PhD (National Museum of Transylvanian History, Cluj-Napoca), areas of expertise: Medieval archaeology, cultural geography, material culture.
Paula-Veronica Cotoi (PhD student, UBB). PhD Student at UBB with a thesis concerning printed sermon texts in late medieval Transylvania and Scientific Secretary of TRANS.SCRIPT. Areas of interest: Medieval book, Medieval liturgy, intellectual history.
Maria Frînc (PhD student, UBB). PhD Student at UBB with a thesis on the female inheritance in Medieval Transylvania. Areas of interest: diplomatic, legal history of the Medieval Hungarian Kingdom, social history.
Mihai Kovacs (documentarian, UBB). PhD Student at the Romanian Academy with a thesis concerning the Transylvanian bishopric, documentarian at TRANS.SCRIPT. Areas of interest: church history, university history.
The Belgian research team includes 5 members:
Paul Betrand (PhD in History) Full professor at the Catholic University of Louvain. Coordinator of the Belgian team, director of the research group H 37, editorial secretary of the Revue d’Historie ecclésiastique, a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of Church history. Paul Bertrand is the author of numerous scientific publications in French and English. His main field of investigation concerns the practices of writing, to which he has devoted an essay Les écritures ordinaires. Sociologie d’un temps de révolution documentaire (entre royaume de France et Empire, 1250-1350), Paris, 2015, recently translated into English (Documenting The Everyday In Medieval Europe: The Social Dimensions of a Writing Revolution 1250-1350, Turnhout, 2019 [Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy]). He has carried out numerous research projects, mainly in France, Belgium and Italy, under various forms of European and international funding. Field of expertise: diplomatic, codicology, digital humanities, economic and social history, France, and the former Netherlands.
Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani (PhD in History). Manager of the Revue d’Historie ecclésiastique, lecturer at the University of Namur. His research focuses on the political history of the central Middle Ages in northern France and Lotharingia, as well as the study of medieval writing practices. His most recent work has taken on an interdisciplinary character, bringing together history and physio-chemistry in the analysis of medieval writing materials (ink, parchment, seal matrices).
Sébastien de Valeriola (PhD in Mathematics, PhD Student in History, MA in Actuarial sciences and History). Lecturer at ICHEC – Brussels School of Management and at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Prepares a doctoral thesis in Medieval History under the joint supervision of Paul Bertrand (UCL) and Marc Boone (University of Gent). His research focuses on the social and economic history of Flanders in the 13th-14th centuries. In his work, he mixes qualitative and quantitative methods, with a more specific use of network analysis and text mining.
Jean-François Nieus (PhD in History). Research associate of the F.R.S.-FNRS at the UNamur, director of the PraME – Medieval Writing Practices research centre. His work focuses on the socio-political and institutional structures of the central Middle Ages, and more particularly on the uses of writing within the framework of princely government and seigneurial management. Field of expertise: diplomatic, sigillography, heraldry, textual criticism, political and institutional history, France and the former Netherlands.
Étienne Renard (PhD in History). Professor at the University of Namur. Field of expertise: economic and social history; political and institutional history; management documents; high Middle age.