CONTACT INFORMATION:
Senior Lecturer
Department of Italian
University of Bristol
19 Woodland Rd
Bristol, BS8 1TE, UK
| Office Telephone: | 0117-928-7588 |
| Office Fax: | 0117-928-8143 |
| Active email: | Stephen.J.Milner@bristol.ac.uk |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Italian/ |
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Late Medieval Italian rhetorical performance
Vernacular translations of classical rhetorical texts (Cicero) 13th-14thC
speechmaking
The city and space.
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
Books:
At the Margins: Minority Groups in Pre-modern Italy, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005) forthcoming. Edited volume.
Artistic Exchange and Cultural Translation in the Italian Renaissance City (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Co-edited volume with Prof. Stephen Campbell (Johns Hopkins University).
Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince and Other Political Writings, (London: J. M. Dent, 1995), 147 + i-xxvi pp., ISBN 0-460-87629-5. Everyman critical edition.
Selected Relevant Academic Journal Papers / Book Chapters:
'The Piazza della Signoria as practiced place', in Florence. Revisioning the Renaissance City: Art, Patronage, and the Dynamics of Space, ed. Roger J. Crum and John Paoletti (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) In press.
'Communication, Consensus and Conflict: Rhetorical principles, the ars concionandi and social ordering in late medieval Italy', in The Rhetoric of Cicero in its Medieval and Renaissance Commentary Tradition, ed. Virginia Cox and John O. Ward (Leiden: Brill, due 2004). In press.
'Exile, Rhetoric, and the Limits of Civic Republican Discourse', in At the Margins: Minority Groups in Pre-Modern Italy, ed. Stephen J. Milner (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005). In press.
'Capitoli e clienti a Pistoia nel quattrocento: dalle strutture repubblicane alla egemonia medicea', Lo stato territoriale fiorentino (secoli XIV-XV): Ricerche, linguaggi, confronti, eds. Andrea Zorzi and William J. Connell (Pisa: Pacini, 2002), pp. 405-29
'Citing the Ringhiera: The Politics of Place and Public Address in Trecento Florence', Italian Studies, 55 (2000), 53-82
'Rubrics and Requests: Statutory Division and Supra-Communal Clientage in Fifteenth-Century Pistoia' in Florentine Tuscany: Structures and Practices of Power, eds. William J. Connell and Andrea Zorzi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 312-32
'Partial readings: addressing a Renaissance archive', History of the Human Sciences, 12 ii (1999), 89-105
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
In regard to my interest in the problems/issues concerning the translation of Latin rhetorical texts into the vernacular and the relation between classical rhetorical precepts and late medeival popular rhetorical practices.
History of the Medieval Book:
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
I have an interest in the interface between late medieval Florentine historiography and rhetorical manuals, specifically with Latini and the Catiline tradition.
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
Yes, I am interested in staff exchanges (depends upon 'academic' fit) with WUN partner institutions, and in potentially conducting a videoconferencing seminar or course.
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
MA in Medieval Studies at Bristol University. Teach units on Boccaccio's Decameron and specific texts as part of a 'Core Text' unit.
MEDIEVAL COURSES WOULD LIKE TO SEE DEVELOPED:
Units on Medieval Literary criticism and reading practices
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