Research

• Published edited collections and monographs

Alex Metcalfe, Hervin Fernández-Aceves, and Marco Muresu (eds), The Making of Medieval Sardinia, [The Medieval Mediterranean Series, vol. 128], (Leiden, 2021). 516 pages.

Marco Muresu, La moneta ‘indicatore’ dell’assetto insediativo della Sardegna bizantina (secoli VI-XI). (Perugia, 2018). 568 pages.

Alex Metcalfe, I musulmani dell’Italia medievale. Traduzione di F. Barone; presentazione di F. Maurici (Palermo, 2019). 346 pages.

 

• Published research articles

Marco Muresu, ‘I reperti metallici in Sardegna’, in D. D’Orlando, F. Doria, L. Soro (eds), Archeologia urbana a Cagliari. Scavi in via Caprera 8 (2014-2015). (Cagliari, 2019), pp. 611–646.

Giovanni Serreli (with F. Lai, M. Perra and G. Uccheddu). ‘Il castrum di Cuccuru Casteddu di Villamar: note preliminari / The castrum of Cuccuru Casteddu at Villamar: preliminary notes’, in Rivista dell’Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea, 5/2 (2019), pp. 5–38.

Marco Muresu, ‘L’assetto dei quartieri portuali delle città bizantine del Mediterraneo orientale.’ in R. Martorelli (ed.), Know the Sea to Live the Sea. Conoscere il mare per vivere il mare (Perugia, 2019), pp. 99–125.

Hervin Fernández-Aceves, British School at Rome Award: Power and society in medieval Sardinia. Research Report, in Papers of the British School at Rome, 87 (2019), pp. 361–362.

Hervin Fernández-Aceves, ‘La Cerdeña Medieval vista desde la modernidad. Un epítome historiográfico de la supuesta conectividad mediterránea,’ in QVADRATA. Estudios Sobre educación, Artes Y Humanidades, 1/1 (2019), pp. 10–29.

Marco Muresu, ‘I metalli’ in D. Gandolfi (ed.), La ceramica e i materiali di età romana. Classi, produzioni, merci e consumi. Aggiornamenti (Bordighera, 2019), pp. 171–184.

Luciano Gallinari, ‘The Catalans in Sardinia and the transformation of Sardinians into a political minority in the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries’, Journal of Medieval History, 45/3 (2019), pp. 347–359.

Marco Muresu, ‘Il possibile ruolo del castrum di Sant’Antioco (Sardegna, Italia) nel conflitto tra Bizantini e Mauri in Nord Africa tra la prima e la seconda metà del VI secolo’, Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, 21 (2020), pp. 177–211.

Thomas Birch (with G. Żabiński, J. Gramacki, A. Gramacki, E. Miśta-Jakubowska, A. Disser, ‘Multi-classifier majority voting analyses in provenance studies on iron artefacts’, Journal of Archaeological Science, 113 (2020), pp. 1–15.

Marco Muresu, ‘La Sardegna nel Mediterraneo di VII-VIII secolo attraverso il dato archeologico, numismatico e sfragistico, in Persone, corpi e anime in movimento. Forme di mobilità tra tardoantico e alto medioevo (VI-X secolo)’, in A. Pazienza and F. Veronese (eds), Mélanges de l’École française de Rome. Moyen Âge, 132/2 (2020), pp. 355–372.

Luciano Gallinari, ‘Catalans and Sardinians: Opposing Identity Discourses and Fluctuating Political Relationships from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Centuries’, in Memories in Multi-Ethnic Societies: Cohesion in Multi-Ethnic Societies in Europe from c. 1000 to the Present, ed. P. Wiszewski (Turnhout, 2020), pp. 329–347.

Thomas Birch (with F. Albarede, J. Blichert-Toft, L. Gentelli, J. Milot, M. Vaxevanopoulos, S. Klein, K. Westner, G. Davis, F. de Callataÿ, ‘A miner’s perspective on Pb isotope provenances in the Western and Central Mediterranean’, in Journal of Archaeological Science (2020), pp. 1–14.

Thomas Birch (with M. Hrnjić, G. Hagen-Peter, G. Barfod, S. Sindbæk, C. Lesher) ‘Non-destructive identification of surface enrichment and trace element fractionation in ancient silver coins’, in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms (2020), pp. 11–20.

Thomas Birch (with K. Westner, H.E. Höfer, H.-M. Seitz, F. Kemmers, S. Klein, ‘Rome’s rise to power: geochemical analysis of silver coinage from the Western Mediterranean (4th to 2nd centuries BCE),’ Archaeometry 62/3(2020), pp. 577–592.

Alex Metcalfe, Hervin Fernández-Aceves, and Marco Muresu, ‘The making of medieval Sardinia: a historiographical introduction’, in The Making of Medieval Sardinia (2021), pp. 1–16.

Hervin Fernández-Aceves, Alex Metcalfe, and Marco Muresu, ‘Discovery, invention and supposition. Three case studies from medieval Sardinia’, in The Making of Medieval Sardinia (Leiden, 2021), pp. 17–41.

Marco Muresu, ‘The coinage of Byzantine Sardinia’, in The Making of Medieval Sardinia (Leiden, 2021), pp. 170–203.

Alex Metcalfe, ‘Early Muslim raids on Byzantine Sardinia’, in The Making of Medieval Sardinia (Leiden, 2021), pp. 126–159.

Luciano Gallinari, ‘The Iudex Sardiniae and the Archon Sardinias between the sixth and eleventh century’, in The Making of Medieval Sardinia (Leiden, 2021), pp. 204–239.

Alex Metcalfe, Muslim contacts with Sardinia: from Fatimid Ifrīqiya to Mujāhid of Dénia, in The Making of Medieval Sardinia (Leiden, 2021), pp. 240–269.

Marco Muresu (with N. Usai), ‘Falsi miti del Medioevo in Sardegna alla prova della ricerca archeologica e storico-artistica’, in T. di Carpegna Falconieri, P. Savy, L. Yawn (eds.), Middle Ages without Borders: an international conversation on medievalism / Moyen Âge sans frontières: conversation internationale sur le médiévalisme, l’École française de Rome (Rome, 2021), PAGES.

 

• Forthcoming critical edition

Hervin Fernández-Aceves, Alex Metcalfe and Maurizio Virdis, Vernacular documents from medieval Sardinia. Editions and English translations of the Carte volgari, the Condaghe of Sanctu Petru di Silki, the Condaghe of Sancta Maria di Bonarcado, and the Carta de Logu. (Forthcoming 2023).

 

• Forthcoming research articles

Thomas Birch and Alex Metcalfe (with Rasmus Andreasen), ‘Provenancing the silver for Islamic dirhams minted in North Africa: lead isotope analysis of late seventh and early eighth-century dirhams’ (forthcoming, 2023).

Thomas Birch and Alex Metcalfe (with Rasmus Andreasen), ‘Was there a trans-Saharan gold route to Carthage and Sardinia in the Byzantine period?’ (forthcoming, 2023).

Marco Muresu, ‘Sardinia and Corsica’, in S. Bühler, S. Rebenich, S. Schmidt-Hofner, J. Weisweiler, Italy in the Fifth Century: Social, Political and Economic Transformations in a Society under Stress, 395-493 CE (Rome–Bari, 2023), in press.

Marco Muresu, ‘Identity, Community and “Language of Power” in Byzantine Sardinia: burials in nuraghi (seventh-ninth c. CE)’, in Experiencing the Landscape in Antiquity II, in press.

Marco Muresu, ‘Castra e sistema difensivo’; ‘Le vie di comunicazione: strade, ponti, fiumi e porti’; ‘La Lex Portus’; ‘La circolazione monetaria’; ‘La zecca di Sardegna’; ‘La società’; ‘Le matrici’; ‘Le tombe a camera’, in R. Martorelli, G. Serreli, S. Cisci (eds.), Il tempo dei Vandali e dei Bizantini. La Sardegna dal V al X secolo d.C., in press.