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The Making of Medieval Sardinia<\/i><\/h3>\n

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We are pleased to announce the publication of\u00a0The Making of Medieval Sardinia<\/i>, edited by Alex Metcalfe, Hervin Fern\u00e1ndez-Aceves and Marco Muresu (Leiden\u2013Boston: Brill). 520 pages with 3 maps and 66 colour illustrations. Available in hardback and eBook. Further details are available\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This new volume combines classic and revisionist essays to explore the historiography of Sardinia\u2019s exceptional transition from an island of the Byzantine empire to the rise of its own autonomous rulers, the\u00a0<\/span>iudikes<\/i><\/span>, by the 1000s. In addition to Sardinia\u2019s contacts with the Byzantines, Muslim North Africa and Spain, Lombard Italy, Genoa, Pisa, and the papacy, recent and older evidence is analysed through Latin, Greek and Arabic sources, vernacular charters and cartularies in addition to the testimony of coinage, seals, onomastics and epigraphy. Essays are also devoted to Sardinia\u2019s early medieval churches, its fine arts, architecture and archaeology.\u00a0<\/span>The result is an important new critique of state formation at the margins of Byzantium, Islam, and the Latin West with the creation of lasting cultural, political and linguistic frontiers in the western Mediterranean.<\/p>\n

We hope that the volume will be of interests to both specialists and to a wider range of scholars alike.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Introduction, index and bibliography are available on Google books<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These are some of the images reproduced in our book:<\/p>\n

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\"Seal

Seal of Salusio, archon<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"San

San Giovanni di Sinis (Cabras, Oristano)<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Charter

Charter fragment written in Sardinian using Greek characters (twelfth century)<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Sant\u2019Elia

Sant\u2019Elia de Tatinnu. Nuxis (Carbonia-Iglesias)<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Peacock-shaped

Peacock-shaped water-pourer.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Massacre

Massacre of the Innocents and Flight into Egypt. Sant\u2019Andrea Priu, \u2018Tomba del Capo\u2019. Bonorva (Sassari)<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Coins

Coins with retrograde ‘S’: solidi, Constantine IV (668\u2013 85)<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Counter-fa\u00e7ade,

Counter-fa\u00e7ade, Romanesque church of San Saturnino (Cagliari)<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Heartshaped,

Heartshaped, silver-gilt locket inlaid with niello from Santa Maria Navarrese<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Santa

Santa Maria del Regno, fa\u00e7ade. Ardara (Sassari)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Table of Contents:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Making of Medieval Sardinia. A Historiographical Introduction: 1 \u2013\u00a0Alex Metcalfe, Hervin Fern\u00e1ndez- Aceves and Marco Muresu<\/p>\n

Discovery, Invention, and Supposition. Three Case Studies from Medieval Sardinia: 17 \u2013\u00a0Hervin Fern\u00e1ndez- Aceves, Alex Metcalfe and Marco Muresu<\/p>\n

Ancient Historical Contexts. Phoenicians, Carthage, Rome and the Barbaricini: 42 \u2013\u00a0Attilio Mastino<\/p>\n

Saints, Cults, Sanctuaries, and Monasteries: 88 \u2013\u00a0Rossana Martorelli<\/p>\n

Early Muslim Raids on Byzantine Sardinia: 126 \u2013\u00a0Alex Metcalfe<\/p>\n

Byzantine Administrative Influence in Medieval Sardinia: 160 \u2013\u00a0Michele Orr\u00f9<\/p>\n

The Coinage of Byzantine Sardinia: 170 \u2013\u00a0Marco Muresu<\/p>\n

The Iudex Sardiniae <\/em>and the Archon Sardanias<\/em> between the Sixth and Eleventh Century: 204 \u2013\u00a0Luciano Gallinari<\/p>\n

Muslim Contacts with Sardinia. From Fatimid Ifr\u012bqiya to Muj\u0101hid of D\u00e9nia: 240 \u2013\u00a0Alex Metcalfe<\/p>\n

The Role of the Church in the Rise of the Sardinian Giudicati:<\/em> 268 \u2013\u00a0Corrado Zedda<\/p>\n

Sociolinguistic Dynamics and Dynastic Names in Byzantine and Early Medieval Sardinia: 293 \u2013\u00a0Giulio Paulis<\/p>\n

The Earliest Charter Sources from Medieval Sardinia: 314 \u2013\u00a0Giovanni Strinna<\/p>\n

Language and Vernacular Writing in Medieval Sardinia: 343 \u2013\u00a0Maurizio Virdis<\/p>\n

Visual Arts in Early Medieval Sardinia Painting, Sculpture and Metalwork: 358 \u2013\u00a0Alberto Virdis<\/p>\n

Aspects of Medieval Architecture in Sardinia in the Eleventh and Twelfth Century: 391 \u2013\u00a0Andrea Pala<\/p>\n

Bibliography: 417<\/p>\n

Index: 477<\/p>\n

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Happy reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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