Luigi Andrea Berto

Professor of History

Office: (269) 387-4580

Location:

4432 Friedmann Hall, Mail Stop 5334

Mailing address:

Department of History
Western Michigan University
1903 W Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5334 USA

Education:

Research Interests:

Medieval Venice and early medieval Italy
Perception of war and violence (including perception of the "others"), writing history, uses of the past
Relations between Christians and Muslims, identity, and historiography

Bio:

Dr. Luigi Andrea Berto is Professor of medieval history at Western Michigan University.

Courses he teaches include:

He advises graduate students interested in medieval Italy.

His books include:

Ethnic Identity, Memory, and Use of the Past in Italy's 'Dark Ages' (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2022).
Old Stories and Contemporary Issues in Films about Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Idealistic Thinking, Sex, Lies, and Video Political Agendas (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2022).
Christians under the Crescent and Muslims under the Cross c.630–1923 (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2021).
Early Medieval Venice: Cultural Memory and History (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2020).
Christians and Muslims in Early Medieval Italy: Perceptions, Encounters, and Clashes (London and New York: Routledge, 2020).
Making History in Ninth-Century Northern and Southern Italy (Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2018).
Cristiani e musulmani nell’Italia dei primi secoli del Medioevo. Percezioni, scontri e incontri (Milan: Jouvence, 2018).
I raffinati metodi d’indagine e il mestiere dello storico. L’alto medioevo italiano all’inizio del terzo millennio (Mantua: Universitas Studiorum, 2016).La guerra, la violenza, gli altri e la frontiera nella “Venetia” altomedievale (Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2016).
In Search of the First Venetians: Prosopography of Early Medieval Venice, Studies in the Early Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014).
The Political and Social Vocabulary of John’s the Deacon’s ‘Istoria Veneticorum’, Cursor Mundi 12, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California at Los Angeles (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013).

Editions and Translations of Medieval Latin Texts:

History of the Venetian Dukes (1102-1229) with an Appendix of Brief Venetian Historical Texts, edition and translation into English (Venice: Centro di Studi medievali e Rinascimentali ‘E. A. Cicogna’, 2021).
The Little History of the Lombards of Benevento by Erchempert: A Critical Edition and Translation of ‘Ystoriola Longobardorum Beneventum degentium’,edition and translation into English (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2021).
Franks and Lombards in Italian Carolingian Texts: Memories of the Vanquished, edition and translation into English (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2021).
Storia dei vescovi napoletani (I secolo – 876) / Gesta Episcoporum Neapolitanorum, edition and translation into Italian (Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2018).
Italian Carolingian Historical and Poetic Texts, edition and translation into English (Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2016).
Erchemperto, Piccola Storia dei Longobardi di Benevento / Ystoriola Longobardorum Beneventum degentium, edition and translation into Italian, Nuovo Medioevo (Naples: Liguori, 2013).
Giovanni Diacono, Istoria Veneticorum, edition and translation into Italian, Istituto storico Italiano per il Medioevo (Bologna: Zanichelli, 1999).