Federico Montinaro

Federico Montinaro is a researcher at the Department of History, part of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Tübingen. He leads a research group under the Emmy Noether-Programm der DFG since 2021, focusing on religious conflict and mobility between Antiquity and the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean world (700-900 CE).

• Current affiliation: University of Tübingen
• Emmy Noether-Programm research group leader
• Previous academic roles: Postdoctoral researcher (2015-2019), Research Associate (2019)

His research spans Byzantine history, Eastern European medieval studies, South Italian medieval history, medieval diplomacy, paleography, numismatics, and historical theology. Notably, he analyzes religious conflict dynamics, particularly during the Photian Schism and Iconoclast periods, through interdisciplinary approaches combining textual, material, and archaeological evidence.

Key article trends reflect:

• Byzantine council acts and theological disputes
• Analysis of imperial numismatic reforms
• Urban reconstruction in medieval Mediterranean
• Slavic-Byzantine political interactions
• Euergetic imperial ideology
• Manuscript transmission of historical texts

Scientific recognition includes:

• DFG Emmy Noether-Programm fellowship
• Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung stipend (2014)

He has supervised research projects on the Seventh-Century Syrian Numismatic Round Table, co-organized conferences like The Road to Rome (2022) on religious conflict and mobility, and contributed to Comparative Codicology and A Companion to Procopius (2017).