Chiara Visentin is a PhD candidate in the Medieval Studies Program at Cornell, with a background in philosophy and sociology. She is interested in the transformations of political cultures, identities and institutions in the central Middle Ages and especially the 12th century, with a focus on the Anglo-Norman and Angevin polities, extending between the British Isles and Western France, as well as their neighbors like Capetian France, and more distant but related polities such as Norman Sicily. She investigates relations between political and educational (ex-)changes as part of the processes that Robert Bartlett referred to as the "making of Europe" through "conquest, colonization and cultural change", especially by means of the multilingual and multiple textual traditions linked to wisdom literature.