CV Maraschi

Address: Hvassaleiti 155
103, Reykjavik
Iceland
Andrea Maraschi
MOB: +39 3295350483
MAIL: [email protected]
Date of birth: 03/31/1985
Nationality: Italian
Titles obtained
BA in Modern Humanities (University of Bologna, 2008)
Thesis: Food in Frankish Gaul at the time of Gregory of Tours
Supervisor: Prof. Massimo Montanari
MA in Medieval History (University of Bologna, 2010 - cum laude)
Thesis: The food miracles of St. Columbanus: originality, tradition, and simbology
Supervisor: Prof. Massimo Montanari
Ph.D. in Medieval History (University of Bologna, 2013)
Thesis: Eat, drink, love. Marriage and food rituals in the early medieval West
Supervisor: Prof. Massimo Montanari
Main research interests
Medieval History, Food History, Anthropology of Food, Hagiography, Old Norse
Mythology, Celtic Mythology, Early Christianity, Agrarian History
Professional qualificationsExpert in the field of Medieval History (University of Macerata, 2014)
obtained
Mother tongue
Italian
Other languages
English (Certificate in Advanced English, University of Cambridge ESOL, 2010)
French
Technical skills and
expertise
Excellent knowledge of Microsoft and Apple operative systems and of the digital
databases for historical research
Good knowledge of music softwares
Artistic abilities
Songwriter, lead singer, guitarist and programmer for the pop/electronic band 2 a.m.
Discography:
• The end. The start - 7-track EP (2011) [Isaac Gravity Records]
• Parallel worlds - 6-track EP (2012) [Isaac Gravity Records]
• Songs for newborns to be - 9-track LP (2013) [Isaac Gravity Records]
Additional information
Visiting researcher at King’s College London (UK) from January to April 2012 under the
direction of Prof. Peter Heather (Department of History) Scientific consultant to the historical reconstruction company Ente Palio di San Floriano
(Jesi, AN - Italy) with regard to medieval cookery and eating habits
Stage manager for the 2013 and 2014 editions of Summer Jamboree music festival
(Senigallia, AN - Italy) Scholarships
Scholarship for the LVII Settimana di Studi di Spoleto (16-21 Aprile 2009), Fondazione
CISAM (Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo): L’irlanda e gli irlandesi nell’alto
Medioevo
Scholarship Marco Polo supplied by the University of Bologna for a three-month stay in
London (January/April 2012) at King’s College London Recruitment Fund of the University of Iceland since October 2014
Publications
Papers
A. Maraschi, “I miracoli alimentari di San Colombano: l’originalità, la tradizione e la
simbologia” (trans.: The food miracles of St. Columbanus: originality, tradition, and
symbology), Studi Medievali LII (2011), pp. 517 - 576
A. Maraschi, “Cibo e miracoli nella letteratura agiografica altomedievale (VI-VII
sec.)” (trans.: Food and miracles in early medieval hagiographic literature), Proposte e
ricerche, fasc. 71 (2/2013), pp. 145-167
A. Maraschi, “Un lessico universale. La figura biblica del banchetto di nozze e la sua
ricezione nell'alto Medioevo” (trans.: A universal lexicon. The biblical figure of the wedding
banquet and its reception in the Early Middle Ages), Fonti per lo studio delle culture
antiche e medievali, a cura di M. MALATESTA, D. RIGATO, V. CAPPI, Bologna,
Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà - DiSCi (2014): http://amsacta.unibo.it/3449/
A. Maraschi, “Parlare attraverso il cibo. Banchetti e artifici gastronomici per le nozze
Bentivoglio-D’Este (Bologna, 1487)” (trans.: Speaking through food. Banquets and
gastronomic trickery for the wedding of Annibale II Bentivoglio and Lucrezia d’Este Bologna, 1487), [publishing, Proposte e Ricerche]
A. Maraschi, “Food is language. Utopias and daily basic needs in the Middle
Ages” [currently under peer-review, Food&History]
Monographs
A. Maraschi, Un banchetto per sposarsi. Matrimonio e rituali alimentari nell’Occidente
altomedievale (trans.: A banquet for getting married. Marriage and food rituals in the early
medieval West), Spoleto, CISAM, 2014
Creator and administrator of the Facebook page HistorEat (facebook.com/historeat),
dedicated to food history. The articles published on HistorEat have also been featured on
Medievalists.net
Online publications
Articles published on HistorEat:
A. Maraschi, The magnificent banquets for the wedding of Annibale II Bentivoglio and
Lucrezia d’Este (Bologna 1487)
A. Maraschi, St. Brendan and his miraculous food: heavenly meals for a legendary voyage
A. Maraschi, The very first Anglo Saxon toast?
A. Maraschi, Are Italians changing their food habits?
A. Maraschi, Food and prejudice: a western ambassador in Byzantium
A. Maraschi, When banquets were dangerous for the soul
A. Maraschi, Creation and food in Old Norse Mythology
A. Maraschi, Yggdrasill and the divine “food chain”
A. Maraschi, If the afterlife looks like a banquet
Talks and lectures
Alimentazione e comunicazione nel Medioevo (trans.: Food and communication in the
Middle Ages) - University of Macerata (03/2014)
L’idea di Medioevo (trans.: The idea of “Middle Ages”) - Second Level College of Science
“E. Medi”, Senigallia (AN) (04/2014)
Le forme assembleari nell’alto Medioevo (trans.: Assemblies and power in the early Middle
Ages), Belvedere Ostrense (AN) (07/2014)
Food is language. Utopias and daily basic needs in the Middle Ages, Miðaldastofa Háskóla
Íslands (11/2014)