Contact Information:

• Room 320
• Telephone: 02476 523420
• Email: jonathan.davies@warwick.ac.uk
• Office Hours: Tuesdays, 11.00-1.00.
  

Academic Profile

• I studied Medieval and Modern History at the University of Liverpool, where I won the H.M. Finnegan Prize for Medieval History and received a B.A. (Hons), First Class in 1987. I remained at Liverpool for my postgraduate research. My doctoral dissertation focused on the University of Florence between 1385 and 1473. My research in Italy was supported by a two-year Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Studentship. I was awarded a PhD in 1993.
• From 1994 to 1997 I held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Leeds.  I was also a member of the Committee of the Institute for Medieval Studies .
  
• From 2000 to 2003 I was a Research Fellow in the AHRB Centre for the Study of Renaissance Elites and Court Cultures at Warwick.
• In 2003 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Italian Renaissance History at Warwick.  In September 2006 I became an Assistant Professor.  In October 2008 I was promoted to Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer.
  
• I am the co-founder of STVDIO, the interdisciplinary research group which promotes the study of the Renaissance. 
• I am also the co-director of the Warburg Institute-University of Warwick Research Training Programme, 'Resources and Techniques for the Study of Renaissance and Early Modern Culture'.
• I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2001.  I have served as a member of the Council of the Society for Renaissance Studies .  I am also a member of the Renaissance Society of America and the Sixteenth Century Society .

Undergraduate Modules Taught 

• The Medieval World (HI127)
• The European World (HI203)
• The Renaissance in Europe (HI267)
  
• Gender in Europe 1350-1650 (HI391)
• Florence and Venice in the Renaissance (HI320)
• Historiography (HI323)

Postgraduate Courses and Modules Taught

• MA in the Culture of the European Renaissance
• Theory, Skills and Method
• Violence in Early Modern Europe

Authored Books

• Culture and Power: Tuscany and its Universities, 1537-1609 (Leiden, and Boston: Brill, 2009)
• Florence and its University during the Early Renaissance (Leiden, Boston, and Cologne: Brill, 1998)

Articles in Refereed Journals

• "Elites and Examiners at Italian Universities during the Late Middle Ages," Medieval Prosopography 21 (2001), 191-209.
• "The Studio pisano under Florentine Domination, 1406-1472," History of Universities 16 (1) (2000), 197-235.
• "A 'Paper University'? The Studio lucchese, 1369-1487," History of Universities 15 (1997-99): 261-306.
• "Corruption of the Examination Process at the University of Florence," History of Universities 14 (1995-96): 69-93.
• With P.E.H. Hair, "Sierra Leone and the Grand Duke of Tuscany," History in Africa 20 (1993): 61-9.
• "Marsilo Ficino: Lecturer at the Studio fiorentino," Renaissance Quarterly 45 (1992): 785-90.

Reviews

• I am a reviewer for the American Historical Review, the English Historical Review, Renaissance Quarterly, and the Sixteenth Century Journal.

Future Publications

Authored Books

• Violence in Early Modern Italy: The Academic Environment

Research

My principal area of interest has been the history of the Italian states (especially Tuscany) between 1350 and 1600.  In order to understand the connections between cultural, economic, political, religious, and social developments in Tuscany, I have used universities as a focus. 

My current research now concentrates on violence in early modern Europe, again using students and professors as a focus.

I am happy to supervise postgraduate students on any aspect of violence in early modern Europe (including the British Isles) as well as on any aspect of Italian history from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries.

Other Activities

• I am an Equality and Diversity Representative.
  
• I am a member of the committee and the Equality Officer of Warwick UCU .