Massimo Montanari, born 24 December 1949 in

Imola Imola (; or ) is a city and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Bologna, located on the river Santerno, in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. The city is traditionally considered the western entrance to the historical region Romagna ...

, was

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. He is a scholar in

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. His interest in the subject stems from his

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es and

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Agrarian

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. He has been invited as

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to a number of leading

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, the

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and

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. He has been one of the founders and

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of the international review ''Food & History'', published by the Institut Européen d’Histoire et des Cultures de l’Alimentation; he is member of a number of

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and plays an important role in disseminating topics of his interest to the

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Works

* * ** * ** * ** * * ** * * *''Imola, il comune, le piazze'' con Tiziana Lazzari (a cura di) (La Mandragora 2003) *''Storia medievale'', con Giuseppe Albertoni, Tiziana Lazzari e Giuliano Milani (Laterza 2002) ** *''Il mondo in cucina. Storia, identità, scambi'', (a cura di) (Laterza 2002) *''Medievistica italiana e storia agraria. Risultati e prospettive di una stagione storiografica. (Atti del convegno di Montalcino, 12-14 dicembre 1997)'', con Alfio Cortonesi (a cura di) (CLUEB 2001) *''Per Vito Fumagalli. Terra, uomini, istituzioni medievali'', con Augusto Vasina (a cura di)(CLUEB 2000) *''Storia dell'Emilia-Romagna'', con Maurizio Ridolfi e Renato Zangheri (a cura di) (Laterza 1999) * ** * ** *''Il pentolino magico'' (Laterza 1995) * *''Il bosco nel Medioevo'', con Bruno Andreolli (a cura di) (CLUEB 1995) *''Contadini di Romagna nel medioevo'' (CLUEB 1994) *''La fame e l'abbondanza. Storia dell'alimentazione in Europa'' he Culture of Food, transl. Carl Ipsen(Laterza 1993) ** *''Convivio oggi. Storia e cultura dei piaceri della tavola nell'età contemporanea'' (Laterza 1992) *''Nuovo convivio. Storia e cultura dei piaceri della tavola nell'età moderna'' (Laterza 1991) *''Convivio: Storia e cultura dei piaceri della tavola dall'antichità al Medioevo'' (Laterza 1989) *''Alimentazione e cultura nel Medioevo'' (Laterza 1988) *''Contadini e città tra "Longobardia" e "Romania"'' (Salimbeni 1988) *''Le campagne italiane prima e dopo il mille. Una società in trasformazione'', con Bruno Andreolli e Vito Fumagalli (a cura di) (CLUEB 1985) *''Campagne medievali. Strutture produttive, rapporti di lavoro, sistemi alimentari'' (Einaudi 1984) *''L'azienda curtense in Italia. Proprietà della terra e lavoro contadino nei secoli VIII-XI'', con Bruno Andreolli (CLUEB 1983) *''Porci e porcari nel medioevo. Paesaggio. Economia. Alimentazione. Catalogo della mostra, San Marino di Bentivoglio'', con Marina Baruzzi (CLUEB 1981) *''L'alimentazione contadina nell'alto Medioevo'' (Liguori 1979)

Appointments and memberships

Former

:2009 - Visiting Professor at the

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VII, Paris Diderot :2008 - Visiting Professor at four Canadian universities (

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, Wilfird Laurier University,

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) :2007 - Visiting Professor at the

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ULB
:2001 - Visiting Professor at four

in Japan (

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) :1993 - Visiting Professor at

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:1992 - Visiting Professor at the

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Current

* Director of the International Maste
"Storia e cultura dell'alimentazione"
at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the

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* Director of the

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series ''Library of Medieval Agrarian History'' (''Biblioteca di Storia Agraria Medievale'') by the (CLUEB) * Director of the journal ''

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'', published by th
Institut Européen d'Histoire et Cultures de l'Alimentation
Tours (France) *

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of the Center for Studies in the History of the Countryside and Rural Work (''Centro di studi per la storia delle campagne e del lavoro contadino''), Montalcino (Siena) * President of the scientific committee o
Casa Artusi
* President of the evaluation commission for market certificatio
DegustiBo
* Consultant and associate publisher for Laterza * Member of the

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of journals ''Quaderni medievali'', ''Rivista di storia dell'agricoltura'', ''Ricerche storiche'', ''Food and Foodways'' * Member of the scientific committee of th
Institut Européen d'Histoire et Cultures de l'Alimentation - IEHCA
* Member of the scientific committee fo
l'EXPO 2015
in Milan * Board member of the

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Center of Medieval Studies
Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo
' of Spoleto (Perugia)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Montanari, Massimo 20th-century Italian historians Living people Italian medievalists Academic staff of the University of Bologna Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Italian historians Italian food writers