Sardinia goes to Tunisia! Harvard-hosted panel on the Global Middle Ages

Posted on January 22, 2023January 22, 2023 by Hervin Fernandez Aceves

The Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University hosted our panel seminar entitled ‘Tunisia in the Global Middle Ages’, on 27 June 2022. All the presentations were delivered by our project’s researchers: Dr Alex Metcalfe, Dr Hervin Fernandez-Aceves and Dr Marco Muresu. Each one of them had the opportunity to Read more about Sardinia goes to Tunisia! Harvard-hosted panel on the Global Middle Ages[…]

cover of the book 'The making of medieval Sardinia'

Our most recent book is now on the shelves!

Posted on October 4, 2021October 16, 2021 by Hervin Fernandez Aceves

The Making of Medieval Sardinia We are pleased to announce the publication of The Making of Medieval Sardinia, edited by Alex Metcalfe, Hervin Fernández-Aceves and Marco Muresu (Leiden–Boston: Brill). 520 pages with 3 maps and 66 colour illustrations. Available in hardback and eBook. Further details are available here. This new volume combines classic and revisionist essays Read more about Our most recent book is now on the shelves![…]

Our postdoc Marco Muresu was in Dumbarton Oaks, in a one-month research award

Posted on February 25, 2020February 25, 2020 by Hervin Fernandez Aceves

Marco Muresu, one of our very own postdoc researchers and archaeologists, spent a month in Dumbarton Oaks as an awardee for a project entitled: ‘The Byzantine Seals of Sardinia: a new comparative approach’. While at DOaks, Marco was part of the Byzantine Studies’ staff section of the Centre, under the direction of Anna Stavrakopoulou and Read more about Our postdoc Marco Muresu was in Dumbarton Oaks, in a one-month research award[…]

‘India for ivory, Sardinia for silver, Attica for honey!‘: Getting the coin analysis started!

Posted on January 6, 2020February 11, 2020 by Hervin Fernandez Aceves

‘India for ivory, Sardinia for silver, Attica for honey!‘ These were the well-known words of the Roman geographer, Solinus, which show the reputation that Sardinia’s silver had acquired in Classical Antiquity. Many centuries later, grants to exploit this precious resource were made to the Pisans at a time when they exerted power on the island Read more about ‘India for ivory, Sardinia for silver, Attica for honey!‘: Getting the coin analysis started![…]