Luigi Canetti

The research of Luigi Canetti embrace the chronological range from Late Antiquity to the Late Middle Agesand focus on the cult of saints, hagiography, cultural memory, church institutions, urban history, religious orders, the relationship between the clerical and popular culture, rituals and forms of symbolic communication through images, relics and votive offerings, the story of the dream and the vision, the phenomena of ecstasy and possession, the cultural history of death and funerary rituals. Particular attention has always reserved in methodologies and epistemology of historical-religious and historical-anthropological fields. Go to the Curriculum vitae