Silvana Seidel Menchi

Silvana Seidel Menchi studied history in Florence and Basel and Latin philology in Munich. After obtaining her doctorate in history, Menchi earned her habilitation qualification in Modern History. She lectured among others at the University of Trento, the University of Pisa and the EHESS Paris. Furthermore she was research associate at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Her field of research includes Trial Records of the Inquisition in Italy, Reformation in Italy, Censorship in Italy and Europe and Marriages in Europe 1400–1800.