Conflicts over Water Management and Water Rights from the End of Antiquity to Industrialisation

Michele Campopiano is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Catania. Between 2014 and 2024 he was Associate Professor at the University of York. He has published several articles on the history of water management and theory and historiography on the subject in various international journals. Campopiano is winner of the San Francesco Prize 2021..
Gerrit Jasper Schenk is Professor of Medieval History at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. His research focuses on historical disaster research, environmental history, history of infrastructure, urban history, rituals and ceremonies. His main areas of interest are the late medieval and early modern periods of the Holy Roman Empire and Italy. Schenk has curated several historical exhibitions. Currently he is leading research projects on the "fluvial anthroposphere".