Francesco Dall’Aglio, Dr.
e-mail: fra(dot)dallaglio(at)gmail.com / dallaglio(at)ihist(dot)bas(dot)bg
ORCID: 0000-0003-3318-7011
ResearcherID: AAP-4926-2020
Scopus Author ID: 38761164700
https://publons.com/researcher/3672608/francesco-dallaglio/
Education
Ph. D. graduate, History of Europe, Department of Political Studies, Faculty of Political Sciences, Università degli Studi di Roma „La Sapienza” (Dissertation: “Con cuore bulgaro”: identità, nazionalismo e storia in Bulgaria dal Medioevo all’età moderna, defended on January 25, 2008; Tutor, Prof. A. Biagini);
MA in Languages and Culture of Eastern Europe: Università degli Studi di Napoli «L’Orientale», November 27, 2000 (MA Thesis: La figura del sovrano bulgaro Kalojan nelle fonti bizantine. Mentors: Prof. R. Maisano, Prof. L. Tartaglia)
Professional positions held
2017-2022: Assistant, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Historical Studies, Section ‟Medieval History”;
2022-present: Chief Assistant, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Historical Studies, Section ‟Medieval History”;
Languages
Italian (native);
English, Bulgarian (proficient);
Russian, French, German, Serbian, Macedonian (reading);
Ancient and Medieval Latin, Ancient and Byzantine Greek.
Professional memberships
Асоциация на Византинистите и Медиевистите в България
Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
Associazione Italiana di Studi sul Sud-Est Europeo
Associazione Italiana degli Slavisti
The above data are updated to 30.06.2025
Publications
Books
Innocenzo III e i Balcani: fede e politica nei Regesta pontifici, Collana del Dipartimento di Studi dell’Europa Orientale, Università degli Studi di Napoli «L’Orientale», 2003, pp. 1-175.
Articles, Studies, Chapters
‟Плячка и военна икономика през първите десетилетия на Второто българско царство: някои казуси”, Исторически Преглед 1 (2025), pp. 35-52 (Print ISSN: 0323-9748; Online-ISSN: 815-3391https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1288398);
‟Nation-Building Narratives in the Correspondence Between Kalojan of Bulgaria and Pope Innocent III (1199-1205)”, in Наративи: Зборник на трудови од 11-тиот меѓународен симпозиум за византиски и средновековни студии „Денови на Јустиниjан I“, Скопје, 10-12.11.2023 г., ed. Mitko B. Panov (Skopje: Институт за национална историја, 2024), pp. 135-146. ISBN 978-608-4981-25-1;
‟The Crusade against „Schismatic” Bulgaria (1238) and its Antecedents”, in Mike Carr Nikolaos Chrissis, and Gianluca Raccagni (eds.), Crusading against Christians in the Middle Ages (London: Palgrave, Macmillan2024), pp.165-189, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47339-5; Hardcover ISBN 978-3-031-47338-8; Softcover ISBN978-3-031-47341-8; eBook ISBN978-3-031-47339-5 (link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-47339-5_7);
‟An Encounter with Alterity: Western Chroniclers of the Third and Fourth Crusade and the Natural Environment of South-Eastern Europe”, in Jessalynn Bird and Elizabeth Lapina (eds.), The Crusades and Nature. Natural and Supernatural Environments in the Middle Ages (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), pp. 189-218, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58786-3; Hardcover ISBN978-3-031-58785-6; Softcover ISBN978-3-031-58788-7; eBook ISBN978-3-031-58786-3 (link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-58786-3_9);
‟La Russia tra guerra in Ucraina e „nuovo ordine” euro-asiatico”, in L’era multipolare: competizione o cooperazione?, ed. Gabriele Germani (Napoli: La Città del Sole, 2023 ISBN 978-88-8292-568-0), pp. 151-58;
‟A Double Heritage: The Second Bulgarian Kingdom between Bulgarian History and Byzantine Succession”, in Наследство. Зборник на трудови од Десеттиот меѓународен симпозиум за византиски и средновековни студии ‟Денови на Јустиниjан I”, Скопје, 10-13.11.2022 г., ed. Mitko B. Panov (Skopje: Институт за национална историја, 2023), pp. 142-55; ISBN 978-608-4981-86-2;
‟Shifting Foundations: The Cumans of Paristrion and Their Influence on the Second Bulgarian State”, Chronica. Annual of the Institute of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Szeged, Hungary 21 (2023), pp. 89-104; ISSN 1588 2039;
‟Paristrion as Centre and periphery: from Byzantine Border Province to Heartland of the Second Bulgarian Tsardom”, Studia Ceranea: Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe 12 (2022), pp. 29-50;
‟New Powers: Serbia and Bulgaria”, in Florin Curta (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1300 (Routledge, 2022), pp. 530-46;
‟Between Rebellion and Statesmanship: Attempting a Biography of Ivanko, 1196/1200 (?)”, Studia Ceranea: Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe 11 (2021), pp. 91-106;
‟Il vescovo Metodio nella prima storiografia bulgara moderna: il caso di Paisij Hilendarski”, Slavica Ambrosiana 10 (2021), pp. 209-23.
‟ ‟Sicut in libris nostris invenimus esse scriptum”: Historical Knowledge in the Documents Pertaining to the Establishment of the Second Bulgarian State”, Bulgaria Mediaevalis 10 (2019), pp. 185-94;
‟The Second Bulgarian Kingdom as an «Imagined Community» and as a Community of Memory”, in България и българите: бит, душевност, национална идентичност. Материали от шестата национална конференция по история, археология и културен туризм Пътуване към България – Шумен, 24 – 26.04.2018 година (Šumen: Университетско издателство ‟Епископ Константин Преславски”, 2020), pp. 117-124;
‟Innocent III and South-eastern Europe: orthodox, heterodox, or heretics?”, Studia Ceranea: Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe 9 (2019), pp. 11-25;
‟Rex or Imperator? Kalojan’s royal title in the correspondence with Innocent III”, Studia Ceranea: Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe 9 (2019), pp. 171-185;
‟Tŭrnovo 1218: Coronation or Usurpation?”, in V. Gjuzelev, I. G. Iliev, K. Nenov (eds.), Цар Иван Асен II (1218-1241). Сборник по случай 800-годишнината от неговото възешествие на българския престол (Plovdiv: Фондация Българско Историческо Наследство, 2019), pp. 173-186;
„The Opposition between Bulgaria and the Latin Empire of Constantinople: a Necessary Hostility?”, in D. Dautović, E. O. Filipovic, N. Isailovic (eds.), Medieval Bosnia and Southeast Europe: Political, Religious and Cultural Life at the Crossroads of the Adriatic World (Kalamazoo: ARC Humanities Press, 2019), pp. 65-84;
‟«Virum providum et discretum»: Giovanni da Casamari e la politica orientale di Innocenzo III”, in N. Veselic (ed.), Giovanni da Casamari in Dalmazia e Bosnia (Roma: Società Dalmata di Storia Patria, 2019), pp. 149-163;
‛ ‟As it Had Been in the Past”: the Idea of National Continuity in the Estаblishment of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom’, in: Ivan Biliarsky (ed.), Laudator Temporis Acti: Studia in Memoriam Ioannis A. Božilov (Sofia, Издателска къща ‟Гутенберг”, 2018), 1: 282-299;
„With Pride and Prejudice: Paìsiy Hilendàrski and the Perception of Bulgaria’s neighbours in the Late Eighteenth Century”, in Giuseppe Motta (ed.), Dynamics and Policies of Prejudice from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018), pp. 15-25;
„The Interaction between Nomadic and Sedentary Peoples on the Lower Danube: the Cumans and the ‘Second Bulgarian Empire’”, in Florin Curta and Bogdan-Petru Maleon (eds.), The Steppe Lands and the World Beyond Them. Studies in Honor of Victor Spinei on His 70th Birthday, (Iaşi: Editura Universității „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, 2013), pp. 299-312;
„Propter multos nostros contrarios: le disavventure dei legati bulgari e pontifici nei primi anni del tredicesimo secolo” [Propter multos nostros contrarios: the Misadventures of the Bulgarian and Pontifical Legates in the First Years of the Thirteenth Century], Mélanges de l’École française de Rome – Moyen Âge [En ligne], 125/1 (2013);
„The Second Bulgarian kingdom and the Latin Empire of Constantinople: a general overview”, Palaeobulgarica 37/1 (2013), pp. 109-117;
„Shifting Capitals and Shifting Identities: Pliska, Preslav, Tărnovo and the Self-Perception of a Medieval Nation”, Bulgaria Medievalis 2 (2011), pp. 587-601;
„Crusading in a Nearer East: the Balkan Politics of Honorius III and Gregory IX (1221-1241), in M. Balard (ed.), La Papauté et les croisades / The Papacy and the Crusades. Actes du VIIe Congrès de la Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East/ Proceedings of the VIIth Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), pp. 173-184;
„Qualche considerazione sulla fondazione del ‘Secondo regno Bulgaro’” [Some Considerations about the Foundation of the ‘Second Bulgarian Kingdom’], Ricerche Slavistiche 9 (55) (2011), pp. 55-64;
„In ipsa silva longissima Bulgariae: Western Chroniclers of the Crusades and the Bulgarian Forest”, Bulgaria Mediaevalis 1 (2010), pp. 405-418;
„La nazione prima del nazionalismo: Paisij Hilendarski e la Istorija Slavenobolgarskaja” [Nation Before Nationalism: Paisij Hilendarski and the Istorija Slavenobolgarskaja], Europa Orientalis 29 (2010), pp. 225-254;
„Contra perfidum Assanum: Gregorio IX e il progetto di crociata contro Bosnia e Bulgaria, 1235-1241” [Contra perfidum Assanum: Gregory IX and the Project of a Crusade against Bosnia and Bulgaria, 1235-1241], Rivista Storica Italiana, CXXI/3 (2009), pp. 991-1027;
„The Military Alliance between the Cumans and Bulgaria from the Establishment of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom to the Mongol Invasion”, Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, 16 (2008/2009), pp. 29-54;
„Quel che è di Cesare, quel che è di Dio: i Balcani tra cattolicesimo, ortodossia e ragion di stato, 1185-1241” [What’s of Caesar, what’s of God: the Balkans between Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Reason of State, 1185-1241”], in R. De Giorgi, S. Garzonio, G. Ziffer (ed.), Gli studi slavistici in Italia oggi. Atti del IV Congresso italiano di slavistica (Udine, 20-23 settembre 2006) (Udine: Editrice Universitaria Udinese, 2007), pp. 137-144;
„La Bulgaria: l’oriente e l’occidente d’Europa” [Bulgaria: the East and West of Europe], in Trent’anni di presenza nel mondo (Naples: Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, 2005), pp. 319-326;
„L’immagine della Bulgaria in Occidente al tempo della IV crociata” [The image of Bulgaria in the West at the time of the Fourth Crusade], Annuario. Istituto Romeno di cultura e ricerca umanistica di Venezia, 5 (2003), pp. 79-103;
„Magia e astrologia in Niceta Coniate” [Magic and Astrology in Niketas Choniates], in P. Lucentini, I. Parri, V. Perrone Compagni, (eds.), Hermetism from Late Antiquity to Humanism – La tradizione ermetica dal mondo tardo-antico all’Umanesimo. Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Napoli, 20-24 novembre 2001 (Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 40), (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003), pp. 569-576;
„The Bulgarian Siege of Thessaloniki in 1207: between History and Hagiography”, Eurasian Studies, I/2, (2002), pp. 263-282.
Papers delivered at international congresses, conferences, round tables, seminars
2025 „De iure paterno”: Innocent III and the legal justifications for the restoration of the Bulgarian kingdom, Round table ‟Наследството на древния Рим в историята и правото. Кръгла маса посветена на сто години от кончината на Проф. Симеон Ангелов”, Sofia, 12-13 June 2025;
2025 A Bulgaro-Vlach-Greek Empire? Kalojan, the Byzantine Aristocracy of Thrace and the Anti-Latin Alliance of 1205, International Conference ‟Balkan Gambit: Southeastern Europe between East and West (1185-1285)”, Sofia, 14-14 April 2025 (co-organizer of the conference);
2024 Настояще и бъдеще на българистиката в Италия: казусът на университетски институт ‟L’Orientale” в Неапол, International Conference ‟Чуждестранната хуманитаристика за България и българите / Humanities Abroad Studying Bulgaria and the Bulgarians”, Sofia, 12-13 November;
2024 Not Just Klokotnitsa: Relations Between Epiros and Bulgaria Between 107 and 1241, Virtual Workshop ‟Epiros: the Other Western Rome”, 8-9 November;
2024 A Fragmented Commonwealth: the ‟Multipolar” Balkans after the Fourth Crusade, 1204-1261, XII International Scientific Symposium on Byzantine and Medieval Studies ‟Days of Justinian I”, Skopje, 1-3 November (online);
2024 L’unione tra la Chiesa bulgara e Roma da Kalojan a Ivan Asen II (1204-1235), International congress ‟I cattolici bulgari e l’Italia nel corso del secoli”, Napoli, 28-29 October;
2024 In Constant Crisis: the Latin Empire of Constantinople in the Context of post-1204 Romania, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 1-4 July;
2024 Установяването на Второто българско царсто в Χρονικὴ διήγησις на Никита Хониат, International Conference ‛Текст и исторически контекст’, Sofia, 29-30 March 2024;
2023 Kalojan’s Combined Arms: Waging War in Bulgaro-Vlach-Cuman Style, Online International Conference ‛War in Byzantine and Mediterranean Contexts (9th-16th centuries) – History, Archaeology, Philosophy’, Thessaloniki, 8-10 December (online);
2023 Foreign Sources for the Prosopography of 12th to 13th-Century Bulgaria: Constantinople, Rome, Serbia and Western Europe, PROSOPON Workshop ‛Entangled Prosopographies. Connecting the ‘Prosopographies of the Later Roman and Byzantine Worlds’ Across the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond’, Edinburgh, 8-9 December (online);
2023 Nomads in the Black Sea: Pechenegs and Uzes Between Caucasia and the Balkans, International Workshop ‛Nomadic Ties, Settled Horizons: Examining Political, Social, and Economic Interactions in Ancient and Medieval Caucasia’, Naples, 5-6 December;
2023 Nation-Building Narratives in the Correspondence Between Kalojan of Bulgaria and Pope Innocent III (1199-1205), XI International Scientific Symposium on Byzantine and Medieval Studies ‟Days of Justinian I”, Skopje, 10-12 November (online);
2023 Плячка и военна икономика през първите десетилетия на Второто Българско Царство: някои казуси, International Conference ‛Стопанство и търговия на средновековните Балкани’, Sofia, 10-11 November;
2023 War and Diplomacy between Bulgaria and the Latin Empire of Constantinople, 1205-1241, International Congress ‛The Balkans After 1204’, Sofia, 27-28 October;
2023 Пътувания, приключения и злополуки на българските и папските легати между Рим и Търново в началото на XIII век, International Conference ‛Изток-Запад: религии, центрове и периферии’, Sofia, 19-20 October;
2023 Small Ruler, Big network: Alexios Slav in the Rhodopes, 1207-1230, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 3-6 July;
2023 Byzantium in Times of Turmoil – Again (Late 12th – Early 13th C.). The Role of the Bulgarian Insurrection and Provincial Separatism, Fifth Colloquia Ceranea International Conference, Łodź, 11-13 May (online);
2022 The Second Bulgarian Kingdom and the Eurasian Steppes, European Workshop on Eurasian Nomadism, Naples, 23-25 November;
2022 Paisij Hilendarski nel contesto del nazionalismo europeo, International Congress ‛La bulgaristica e la polonistica tra tradizione e innovazione (lingua, letteratura e cultura bulgara e polacca nel contesto delle trasformazioni mondiali)’, Naples, 16-17 November;
2022 A Double Heritage: The Second Bulgarian Kingdom Between Bulgarian History and Byzantine Succession, X International Scientific Symposium on Byzantine and Medieval Studies ‟Days of Justinian I”, Skopje, 10-13 November;
2022 Two Seas Are Not Enough: Bulgarian History and Historiography in World War I, 23rd International Congress of Historical Sciences, Poznań, 22-25 August (online);
2022 Unbalanced Power: Bulgaria, Nicaea, Epiros, the Latin Empire of Constantinople, and the Confrontation for Regional Supremacy and imperial Inheritance, 1204-1261, 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Venice and Padua, 22-27 August (online);
2022 The Disputed Border between Bulgaria and the Latin Empire of Constantinople, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 4-7 July (online);
2022 An Encounter with Alterity: Western Chroniclers of the Third and Fourth Crusade and the Natural Environment of South-Eastern Europe, 10th Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, Royal Holloway University, London, 27 June – 1 July (online);
2022 Paristrion as Centre and Periphery. From Byzantine Border Province to Heartland of the ‛Second Bulgarian Kingdom’, Fourth Colloquia Ceranea International Conference, Łodź, 12-14 May (online);
2022 Neglected Neighbors: How to Include Central and Eastern Europe in Your Syllabus (A Roundtable), International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (MI), 9-14 May (online);
2021 The Use of History in the Political Ideology of Ivan Alexandăr (1331-1371), International Congress ‛The Sunset of the Balkan Middle Ages. International Conference on the Occasion of the 650th Anniversary of the Deaths of Bulgarian Emperor John Alexander and Serbian Emperor Stephen Uroš V, and the Battle at Chernomen’, Sofia, 22-23 October (moved online);
2021 Border Identities: Local Magnates on the Byzantine-Bulgarian Frontier, 1195-1215, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 5-9 July;
2021 Towards a Prosopography of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom: the State of the Field, Digital Workshop ‛Bridging the Gap. The Prosopography of a Fragmented World (13th Cent.)’, Vienna, 27-28 May (online);
2021 Between Rebellion and Statesmanship: Attempting a Biography of Ivanko, 1196/1200 (?), Third Colloquia Ceranea International Conference, Łodź, 15-17 April (moved online);
2020 Rivalry and cooperation in Latin-occupied Thrace: the Bulgaro-Byzantine alliance of 1205, Second Colloquia Ceranea International Conference, Łodź, 24-26 April (moved online);
2020 Il vescovo Metodio nella prima storiografia bulgara moderna (XVII-XIX sec.), International Congress ‛Десятые Римские Кирилло-Мефодиевские чтения’, Rome, 4 February;
2019 Sicut in libris nostris invenimus esse scriptum: Historical Knowledge in the Documents Pertaining to the Establishment of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom, International Congress ‛Наука и образование в средновековна България. Конференция по случай 150-годишнината от създаването на Българската Академия на Науките’, Sofia, 2-3 December;
2019 Moving Foundations: the Cumans in Paristrion and the Birth of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom, International Congress ‛Nomads and their Neighbours in the Middle Ages – Eight International Conference on Medieval History of the Eurasian Steppe’, Sofia, 20-23 November;
2019 The Second Bulgarian Kingdom and the latin Empire of Constantinople as Successors States of the Byzantine Empire: an Assessment of the Question, International Conference ‛Империи и имперско наследстево на Балканите’, University of Plovdiv, 15-17 November;
2019 The Tall Man’s Ring: Tsar Kalojan between Medieval and Socialist Bulgaria, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 1-4 July;
2019 The Diplomatic and Missionary Activity of Innocent III in the Eastern Adriatic, Četvrta medievistička znanstvena radionica u Rijeci/Fourth Medieval Workshop in Rijeka, University of Rijeka, 30-31 May;
2019 Cirillo e Metodio e la questione ‛lingua-popolo-nazione’ nell’Europa medievale: nuove prospettive di ricerca, Diciassettesima giornata di studi cirillometodiani, Rome, 17-18 May
2019 Rex or Imperator? Kalojan’s Royal Title in the Correspondence with Innocent III, First Colloquia Ceranea International Conference, Łodź, 11-13 April;
2018 Tarnovo 1218: Restoration or Usurpation?, International Congress ‛Цар на Българи и Гърци. Конференция по случай 800-годишнината от възшествието на Йоан Асен II (1218-1241)’, Sofia, 29-30 November;
2018 Innocenzo III e l’Europa sud-orientale: ortodossi, eterodossi o eretici?, International Congress ‛Ortodossia – Eterodossia. Lo spazio slavo di fronte alle divisioni della Cristianità dal medioevo a oggi’, Naples, 22-23 November;
2018 Moving/Transforming Paristrion: From Byzantine Border Province to Heartland of the ‘Second Bulgarian Kingdom’, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 2-5 July; also, moderator for session 811, Ethnic Identities in South-Eastern Europe, 9th-15th Centuries;
2018 L’opera cirillometodiana nella corrispondenza tra Innocenzo III e Kalojan: (le ragioni di un silenzio), Sedicesima giornata di studi cirillometodiani, Rome, 18-19 May;
2018 The Second Bulgarian Kingdom: an «imagined community» or a community of memory?, Sixth International Conference ‛Пътуване към България. България и Българите: Бит, Душевност, Национална Идентичност’, Šumen, 24-26 April;
2017 ‘National’ Past and ‘National’ Continuity in the Establishment of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom, 1180s-1230s, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 3-6 July;
2017 moderator and plenary speaker, round table Di cosa parliamo quando parliamo di ‘Stato’ e di ‘Narod/Nazione’ nel Medioevo slavo ortodosso?, Quindicesima giornata di studi cirillometodiani, Rome, 20 May;
2016 Strategies of Usurpation: Boril, Ivan Asen II and the Concept of Legitimacy in Bulgarian Royal Accession, 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Belgrade, 22-27 August;
2016 With Pride and Prejudice: Paisij Hilendarski and the Perception of Bulgaria’s Neighbours in the Late Eighteenth Century, International Congress ‘Dynamics and Policies of Prejudice from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century’, Università degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, 23-24 June;
2015 Failure or Renewal? Tsar Boril, 1207-1218 – the Reorganization of Bulgaria and Its relations with the Latin Empire of Constantinople, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 6-9 July;
2015 ‘As It Had Been in the Past’: Nation Building and Rebuilding in Twelfth-to Thirteenth-Century Bulgaria, International Congress ‘Identity, Ethnicity, and Nationhood before Modernity: Old Debates and New Perspectives’, University of Oxford, 24-26 April;
2014 Imagining a New Empire: Bulgaria and the Latins of Constantinople, 1204-1241, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 7-10 July; also, organizer of session 206, The Idea of Empire between Bulgaria, Constantinople, and the West;
2014 L’alfabeto e la nazione: Cirillo, Metodio e il ‘patriottismo’ letterario nella Bulgaria medievale, Dodicesima giornata di studi cirillometodiani, Rome, 16 May;
2014 Between Past Glory and Imperial Destiny: the Ideological Use of the Past and of the Imperial Idea in Thirteenth-Century Bulgaria, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (MI), 8-11 May; also, presider for session 15, Ethnic Identities and Multicultural Societies in Medieval Europe;
2013 „Ad subveniendum Imperio”: the crusades planned for the salvation of the latin Empire of Constantinople and the Kingdom of Thessalonika, International Congress ‘The Fairest meadows in the World’: Crusades and Crusaders in the Balkans, St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, 7-9 November;
2013 Between Nation and Separatism: the Patterns of political and Ethnic Allegiance in the Second Bulgarian Kingdom, 1185-1218, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 1-4 July;
2013 Old Bones for New Quarrels: Medieval History and Nationalist Issues in Southeastern Europe during the Socialist Era, International Congress ‘Empire and Nations from the 18th to the 20th Century’, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, 20-22 June;
2012 Competing for the Empire: Bulgaria and the Latins, 1204-1261, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 9-12 July; also, moderator for session 1303, GIS as a tool for understanding medieval road systems;
2011 The Danube Area and the Second Bulgarian Kingdom, 22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Sofia, 22-27 August;
2011 „Nuz et deschauz et a pié”: Building and Losing Fortunes in the Latin Empire of Constantinople, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 11-14 July; also, moderator for session 1018, Wealth and Trade in the Mediterranean and Beyond;
2011 Bulgaria, Costantinopoli e Crociati (fine XII – inizio XIII sec.): tentativi di Impero, Laboratorio della Bulgaristica Italiana, University of Rome, 27-28 May;
2010 „Propter multos nostros contrarios”: the Misadventures of Bulgarian and Pontifical legates in the First Half of the 13th Century, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 12-15 July; also, moderator for session 1014, Travelling on the Edge in Southeastern Europe;
2009 „Pascua draconum et cubile strutiorum”: the Pontifical See and the Bosnian ‘heresy’, 1185-1241, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 13-16 July;
2008 Crusading in a Nearer East: the Balkan Politics of Honorius III and Gregory IX, 1221-1241, 7th Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, University of Avignon, 27 August – 1 September;
2008 „In ipsa silva longissima bulgariae”: Western Chroniclers of the Crusades and the Bulgarian Forest, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 7-10 July;
2008 L’alfabeto come uno dei costituenti essenziali del nazionalismo bulgaro medievale, „Sesta Giornata di studi cirillometodiani”, Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Rome, 19 May;
2008 The Mountain, the Bandit and the Monk: Popular Forms of Nationalism in Bulgaria, 1762 to 1914, International Congress ‘National Identification from Below. Europe from the Late 18th Century to the End of the First World War’, Universiteit Gent, Belgium, 7-8 March;
2007 Bulgaria’s shifting capitals, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 10-13 July; also, moderator for session 527, Cities and Political Ideas;
2006 Quel che è di Cesare, quel che è di Dio: i Balcani tra cattolicesimo, ortodossia e ragion di stato, 1185-1241, IV Congresso Italiano di Slavistica, University of Udine, Sept. 20-23;
2006 Counsels of Caution: Impetuous Emperors and Byzantium’s Bulgarian Problem, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 10-13 July;
2006 The Troy legend in Byzantium and Bulgaria, International Congress „Troy and the European Imagination. The Middle Ages and Beyond”, University of Bristol, 7-9 July;
2005 Age or Consent?: Formal and Informal Practices of Succession during the Establishment of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom, 1185-1241, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 11-14 July;
2004 Brothers in Arms: the Art of War According to Baldwin and Henry of Flandres, 6th Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, Bosporus University, Istanbul, 25-28 August;
2004 Adrianopolis 1205: from Cultural Misunderstanding to Military Disaster, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 12-15 July;
2004 The Bulgarian Army in 1944, International Congress ‘World War II: A 60-Year Perspective’, Siena College, Loudonville (NY), 3-4 June;
2001 Magia e astrologia in Niceta Coniate, International Congress „La tradizione ermetica dal mondo tardo-antico all’Umanesimo” Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, 20-24 November.