05/05/2026
🇬🇧 The first collective publication from the DEMALPS project has been released and is available in open access!
It is a special issue of the journal *Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento | Jahrbuch des italienisch-deutschen historischen Instituts in Trient*, edited by PI Marta Gravela. The articles present the initial findings of the survey carried out by the DEMALPS team on the archives of the Western Alps, introduce the database created to collect the research data, and establish a dialogue with studies on the Lombard Alps. In his conclusions, Beat Kümin draws on some of the ideas that emerged from the articles to suggest broader perspectives.
🇮🇹 È uscita ed è disponibile ad accesso aperto la prima pubblicazione collettiva del progetto DEMALPS!
Si tratta di un numero speciale della rivista *Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento | Jahrbuch des italienisch-deutschen historischen Instituts in Trient*, curato dalla PI Marta Gravela. Gli articoli espongono i primi risultati della ricognizione svolta dal gruppo DEMALPS sugli archivi delle Alpi occidentali, presentano il database creato per raccogliere i dati della ricerca e avviano il confronto con gli studi sulle Alpi lombarde. Nelle conclusioni, Beat Kümin raccoglie alcuni degli spunti emersi dagli articoli per posizionarli entro prospettive più ampie.
Marta Gravela, Introduction
Marta Gravela, Jean-Paul Rehr, Collective Decision-Making in the Alps. Researching Late Medieval Communal Politics Through a Digital-Native Project
Chiara Corradini, Assemblies Proceedings in the Alpine Space. Piedmont and the Aosta Valley (1300-1530)
Clément Carnielli, Forms and Functions of (Non-)registration of Political Actions in Late-medieval French Alpine Communities
Davide Morra, Being a Community within a Lordship. A Perspective from Luserna San Giovanni on the Emergence of Council Registers in the Western Alps (14th-15th Centuries)
Elisabetta Canobbio, Deciding on the Sacred in Registers of Council Proceedings. Cases from the Central Alps
Massimo Della Misericordia, Intus and foris. Cultures of Space, the Alpine Environment, and Territorial Relations in the Language of Communal Documents (Bormio, 14th-16th Centuries)
Beat Kümin, Transalpine Perspectives
Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento | Jahrbuch des italienisch-deutschen historischen Instituts in Trient. 52, 2026 / Special Issue. Collective Voices in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Alps. Council Proceedings of Mountain Communities (1300-1530) Testata:Annali dell'Istituto s...