Dissertation topics suggested by the teacher.
- Church history, history of the papacy, history of heretical movements and religious dissent, history of inquisition in the Middle Ages
- Mediterranean history, history of the Near East in the Middle Ages
- History of Crusades
- Travel writing
- Medieval intellectual history
Recent dissertations supervised by the teacher.
First cycle degree programmes dissertations
- Contributo alla storia della cristianità orientale dalla Tarda Antichità al XIII secolo.
- I marchesi del Monferrato alle Crociate
- Impatto e lascito dell'impero mongolo dal medioevo ad oggi: Russia e Cina.
- La cultura bizantina nella Rimini malatestiana: tra Sigismondo e Gemisto Pletone
- L'altro Giovanni XXIII, un "bolognese" nato a Ischia
- L'Islam agli occhi degli occidentali medievali: Riccoldo da Montecroce e altri
Second cycle degree programmes dissertations
- East Meets West: a comparative study on the European perception of Asia during Medieval and Colonial times through the works of John of Plano Carpini and Matteo Ricci
- European Exploration of Central Asian People and Countries: a comparative analysis of European Writings on Central Asia
- Recounting Cathay. European perceptions and narratives of China from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century.
