Dr. Cinzia Grifoni

Portraitpicture Cinzia Grifoni

Portraitpicture Cinzia Grifoni

Postdoctoral University Assistant

History of Europe in the Early Middle Ages  (3rd to 11th Century )

 

Room

ZG201.67

Phone

+43-1-4277-27262

E-mail

cinzia.grifoni@univie.ac.at

 

Office hours 

 

By appointment, in person or online

Teaching

ufind.univie.ac.at/en/person.html

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

ORCID: 0000-0002-0560-6031    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0560-6031

Academia: https://univie.academia.edu/CinziaGrifoni

CV

  • July 2026-present Postdoctoral University Assistant at the Department of History of the University of Vienna, affiliated with the Institute of Austrian Historical Research 
  • February-March 2026 Postdoctoral Researcher in the FWF Project "Retexte en Page: der lateinische Alexanderroman, 12./13. Jh.", PI: Univ-.Prof. Dr. Katja Weidner.
  • January 2021-October 2026 Project Leader of the Elise Richter Project: "Margins at the Centre. Book Production and Practices of Annotation in the East Frankish Realm (ca. 830-900)" (FWF).
  • March-December 2020 Postdoctoral Research Associate in the "Visions of Community" Working Group at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
  • May 2019-February 2020 "Back to Research Grant", Vienna University.
  • March-April 2019 Postdoctoral Researcher in the FWF Project: "Bible and Historiography in Transcultural Iberian Societies, 8th to 12th Centuries" (PL: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Walter Pohl and Univ.-Prof. Dr. Matthias M. Tischler).
  • May 2016-February 2019 Postdoctoral Researcher in the SFB-Project: "VISCOM: Visions of Community" (PL: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Walter Pohl), Subproject: "Languages of Empire and Grammars of Power" at the History Department, Vienna University.
  • May 2011-April 2016 Postdoctoral Researcher in the ERC-AdG Project: "SCIRE: Social Cohesion, Identity and Religion in Europe, 400-1200", Subproject: "Semantics and narratives of ethnicity" at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) (PL: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Walter Pohl).
  • 2015 Basic Qualification for Academic Teaching – Vienna University.
  • 2008-2013 Latin Teacher at Gymnasium-level schools in Vienna.
  • 2005-2007 Teacher of Latin, Greek, Italian, History, and Geography at Italian High Schools
  • 2004-2005 Teaching qualification for the following subjects: Italian, History, and Geography for lower secondary education; Latin and Greek for upper secondary education (Gymnasium). Recognition of teaching qualification for Latin and Greek by the Austrian Ministry of Education in 2007.
  • 2000-2004 PhD from the University of Udine (Italy); Doctoral thesis: "Otfrido e le tradizioni esegetiche a Weißenburg in epoca carolingia, con edizione delle Glossae in Iohannem" ["Otfrid and the Weißenburg Exegetical School of the Carolingian Era, with a Critical Edition of the Glossae in Iohannem (Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, cod. 26 Weissenburg, ff. 214r-267v)"]. Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Paolo Chiesa.
  • 1995-1999 Praedoctoral Researcher in the project "TRAPEM: La Tradizione dei Padri della Chiesa nell’Europa del Primo Millennio", University f Florence (PL: Dr. Silvia Cantelli Berarducci).
  • 1994-1999 Degree in Classical Philology with a specialization in Medieval Latin, summa cum laude, at the University of Florence (Italy).

 

Research interests

  • European History in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
  • Medieval Latin
  • Scholarly Networks, the Shaping and Organisation of Knowledge in the Middle Ages
  • Manuscript Studies; Codicology and Palaeography
  • The Social and Political Relevance of Biblical Exegesis in the Early Middle Ages
  • Otfrid of Weißenburg/Wissembourg
  • Textual Criticism and Editorial Techniques; Digital Editing Techniques; Automated Text Recognition (ATR) of Medieval Sources


Current projects

  • Margins at the Centre. Book Production and Practices of Annotation in the East Frankish Realm  (https://www.oeaw.ac.at/imafo/forschung/historische-identitaetsforschung/projekte/margins-at-the-centre)
  • Edited volume: Margins at the Centre. Practices of Annotation, Scholars and Audiences in Carolingian East Francia, Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, scheduled publication: 2027).
  • Co-editor of the volume: Pohl, Walter / Fischer, Andreas / Grifoni, Cinzia (eds.),Social Cohesion and its Limits, (Vienna: Akademieverlag der ÖAW, scheduled publication: 2027).

 

Publications (selection)

List of Publications

 

•      ‘Commented editions of the Bible from Ninth-Century St. Gall: The Psalms, the Prophets, the Gospels’, in: Frédérique Lachaud / Marielle Lamy / Sumi Shimahara (eds.), Bible et sociétés: pratiques et enjeux de l’exégèse (Moyen Âge et première modernité), Commentaria 18 (Leiden: Brill, 2026), pp. 77-105. Open Access DOI: 10.1163/9789004757929_005

•      ‘Commented editions of the Bible in Carolingian Europe: Otfrid’s approach to the Book of Isaiah’, in: Anna Dorofeeva and Michael J. Kelly (eds.), The Art of Compilation: Manuscripts and Networks in the Early Medieval Latin West, (Brooklyn, NY: Punctum Books, 2025), pp. 209-250. DOI: 10.53288/494.1.08

•      ‘C. Grifoni, ‘New Tools for Everyday Tasks. Otfrid and the Spread of Commented Editions of the Bible at Ninth-Century Wissembourg’, Medieval Worlds 20 (2024), pp. 146-171. DOI 10.1553/medievalworlds_no20_2024s146

 

Talks

List of Talks