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'''William Caferro''' is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History & Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies at [[Vanderbilt University]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://as.vanderbilt.edu/history/bio/william-caferro |title=William Caferro |website=Vanderbilt.edu |accessdate=March 15, 2017}}</ref>. His expertise is in medieval and Renaissance European history. His publications synthesize economic, military, social, literary, and historical trends.
'''William Caferro''' is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History & Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies at [[Vanderbilt University]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://as.vanderbilt.edu/history/bio/william-caferro |title=William Caferro |website=Vanderbilt.edu |accessdate=March 15, 2017}}</ref>. His expertise is in medieval and Renaissance European history. His publications synthesize economic, military, social, literary, and historical trends.



Caferro was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2010) by the [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/william-caferro/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - William Caferro|website=Gf.org|accessdate=10 August 2017}}</ref> He has also held fellowships from [[Villa I Tatti]] (Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies), the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] (Princeton), the [[Italian Academy for Advanced Study]] (Columbia University) and the [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]]. He is currently a member of the Deputazione di Storia Patria di Toscana and l'Associazione di Studi Storici Elio Conti in Italy.
Caferro was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2010) by the [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/william-caferro/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - William Caferro|website=Gf.org|accessdate=10 August 2017}}</ref> He has also held fellowships from [[Villa I Tatti]] (Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies), the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] (Princeton), the [[Italian Academy for Advanced Study]] (Columbia University) and the [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]]. He is currently a member of the Deputazione di Storia Patria di Toscana and l'Associazione di Studi Storici Elio Conti in Italy.



He received his bachelor's degree from [[Haverford College]] in 1984 and a doctorate from [[Yale University]] in 1992.
He received his bachelor's degree from [[Haverford College]] in 1984 and a doctorate from [[Yale University]] in 1992.


==Published works==
==Published works==
;Books
;Books
*Caferro, William (1998). ''Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena''. Johns Hopkins University Press. {{ISBN|978-0801857881}}.
*Caferro, William (1998). ''Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena''. Johns Hopkins University Press. {{ISBN|978-0801857881}}
*Jacks, Philip and William Caferro (2001). "The Spinelli of Florence: Fortunes of a Renaissance Merchant Family." Penn State University Press. {{ISBN|978-0271019246}}.
*Jacks, Philip and William Caferro (2001). "The Spinelli of Florence: Fortunes of a Renaissance Merchant Family." Penn State University Press. {{ISBN|978-0271019246}}.
*Caferro, William (2006). ''John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy''. Johns Hopkins University Press. {{ISBN|978-0801883231}}.
*Caferro, William (2006). ''John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy''. Johns Hopkins University Press. {{ISBN|978-0801883231}}.
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*Caferro, William (2017). “Dante, Riccobaldo and Empire,” Dante Studies 135: 135-155.
*Caferro, William (2017). “Dante, Riccobaldo and Empire,” Dante Studies 135: 135-155.
*Caferro, William (2018). “The Visconti War and Boccaccio’s Florentine Public Service in Context, 1351-1353,” Heliotropia 15: 161-182.
*Caferro, William (2018). “The Visconti War and Boccaccio’s Florentine Public Service in Context, 1351-1353,” Heliotropia 15: 161-182.



==Awards==
==Awards==
*2002 [[Madison Sarratt Prize]] for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (Vanderbilt){{cite web|url=https://as.vanderbilt.edu/history/bio/william-caferro}}
*2002 Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (Vanderbilt){{cite web|url=https://as.vanderbilt.edu/history/bio/william-caferro}}
*2008 Medieval Institute, Otto Grundler Book Prize<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pwb01mw.press.jhu.edu/about/awards.html|title=The Johns Hopkins University Press - Recent Awards|website=Pwb01mw.press.jhu.edu|accessdate=10 August 2017}}</ref>
*2008 Medieval Institute, Otto Grundler Book Prize<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pwb01mw.press.jhu.edu/about/awards.html|title=The Johns Hopkins University Press - Recent Awards|website=Pwb01mw.press.jhu.edu|accessdate=10 August 2017}}</ref>
*2010 [[Guggenheim Fellow]]
*2010 [[Guggenheim Fellow]]

Revision as of 07:30, 2 December 2019

William Caferro is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History & Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies at Vanderbilt University.[1]. His expertise is in medieval and Renaissance European history. His publications synthesize economic, military, social, literary, and historical trends.

Caferro was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2010) by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.[2] He has also held fellowships from Villa I Tatti (Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies), the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), the Italian Academy for Advanced Study (Columbia University) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is currently a member of the Deputazione di Storia Patria di Toscana and l'Associazione di Studi Storici Elio Conti in Italy.

He received his bachelor's degree from Haverford College in 1984 and a doctorate from Yale University in 1992.

Published works

Books
  • Caferro, William (1998). Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0801857881
  • Jacks, Philip and William Caferro (2001). "The Spinelli of Florence: Fortunes of a Renaissance Merchant Family." Penn State University Press. ISBN 978-0271019246.
  • Caferro, William (2006). John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0801883231.
  • Caferro, William (2017), Editor. The Routledge History of Renaissance Europe New York and London: Routledge Press. Template:ISBN-13: 978-1138898851
  • Caferro, William (2010). Contesting the Renaissance. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1405123709.
  • Caferro, William (2018). Petrarch's War: Florence and the Black Death in Context. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1108424011
Selected Articles
  • Caferro, William (1994). "City and Countryside in Siena in the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century". The Journal of Economic History 54(1): 85-103.
  • Caferro, William (1996). "The silk business of Tommaso Spinelli, fifteenth-century Florentine merchant and papal banker". Renaissance Studies 10(4): 417-439.
  • Caferro, William (1996). "Italy and the Companies of Adventure in the Fourteenth Century". The Historian 58(4): 794-810.
  • Caferro, William (1996). “L'Attività bancaria papale e la Firenze del Rinascimento. Il caso di Tommaso Spinelli,” Società e storia 55: 717-753.
  • Caferro, Wiiliam (2008). “Continuity, Long-Term Service and Permanent Forces: A Reassessment of the Florentine Army in the Fourteenth Century,” The Journal of Modern History 80: 303-32.
  • Caferro, William (2008). “Warfare and Economy in Renaissance Italy, 1350-1450,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 39: 167-209.
  • Caferro, William (2008). “Tommaso Spinelli, the Soul of a Banker,” Journal of the Historical Society 8.2: 303-322.
  • Caferro, William (2013). “Petrarch’s War: Florentine Wages at the Time of the Black Death” Speculum 88.1: 144-16
  • Caferro, William (2013). “Edward Despenser, The Green Knight and the Lance Formation: Englishmen in Florentine Military Service” in The Hundred Years War, part III, edited by L. J. Andrew Villalon and Donald Kagay (Leiden: Brill): 85-104.
  • Caferro, William (2014). “Dante, Byzantium and the Italian Chronicle Tradition” in Dante and the Greeks, edited by Jan Ziolkowski. Harvard University Press: 227-245.
  • Caferro, William (2017). “Dante, Riccobaldo and Empire,” Dante Studies 135: 135-155.
  • Caferro, William (2018). “The Visconti War and Boccaccio’s Florentine Public Service in Context, 1351-1353,” Heliotropia 15: 161-182.

Awards

References

  1. ^ "William Caferro". Vanderbilt.edu. Retrieved March 15, 2017.
  2. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - William Caferro". Gf.org. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  3. ^ "The Johns Hopkins University Press - Recent Awards". Pwb01mw.press.jhu.edu. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  4. ^ "Faculty and Graduate Student Awards - Faculty - College of Arts and Science - Vanderbilt University". As.vanderbilt.edu. Retrieved 10 August 2017.