Notes on Contributors
Lucia Arcifa
is Associate Professor at the University of Catania. She specializes in the archaeology of Medieval Sicily; her recent publications include Nuove ipotesi a partire dalla rilettura dei dati archeologici: la Sicilia orientale, in A. Nef/V. Prigent (eds.), La Sicile de Byzance à l’Islam, Paris 2010; with A. Nef/A. Bagnera, Archeologia della Sicilia islamica: nuove proposte di riflessione, in Histoire et Archéologie de l’Occident Musulman (VIIe–XVe siècle: Al-Andalus, Maghreb, Sicile), Toulouse 2012; Dinamiche insediative e grande proprietà nella Sicilia tardobizantina: uno sguardo archeologico in J.M. Martin/A. Peters-Custot/V. Prigent (eds.), L’héritage byzantin en Italie (VIIIe–XII siècle). IV Habitat et structure agraire, Rome 2017.
Paul Arthur
is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the University of Salento and President of the Italian Society of Medieval Archaeologists (SAMI). Whilst beginning his career as a classical archaeologist, he has since specialised in medieval and Byzantine archaeology. Interests in settlement systems, economy and the environment have led him to work in England, Israel, Italy, Libya, Turkey and the Ukraine. With almost 300 publications, monographs include Romans in Northern Campania (1991); Naples from Roman Town to City-State: An Archaeological Perspective (2002); Byzantine and Turkish Hierapolis (Pamukkale) (2006); French Art Nouveau Ceramics. An Illustrated Dictionary (2015).
Isabella Baldini
is Professor of Early Christian and Medieval Archaeology at the University of Bologna. She specializes in late antique and Byzantine jewelry, architecture and housing archaeology, and she is director of archaeological missions in Greece and Sicily. Her major publications include L’oreficeria dell’Impero di Costantinopoli tra IV e VII secolo (Bari 1999); La domus tardoantica, (Imola 2001), L’architettura residenziale nelle città tardo antiche (Roma 2005); “Private Space in Late-Antique Cities: Laws and Building procedures”, in L. Lavan et alii (eds.), Housing in Late Antiquity (Leiden 2007, pp. 197–238); (with M. Livadiotti), Archeologia protobizantina a Kos, 1, La basilica di S. Gabriele; 2, Il complesso episcopale (Bologna 2011, 2015).
Massimo Bernabò
is Associate Professor of History of Medieval Art at the University of Pavia. He specializes in Byzantine book illumination, biblical iconography, Syriac and Christian Islamic illumination, as well as Byzantium in the 19th century. His publications include Il Tetravangelo di Rabbula (Roma, 2008); “Le miniature del Vangelo arabo della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana di Firenze”, Orientalia Christiana Periodica 83/2 (2017).
Brunella Bruno
works at the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Verona, Rovigo, Vicenza. Her publications include works on commercial amphorae from various regional contexts (Liguria, Lombardia, Piemonte, Veneto), archaeological reports on aspects of the archaeology of Verona and of its territory, as well as researches on the economy and commerce of the Maltese islands in the Roman and Byzantine periods (Edipuglia, 2004).
Salvatore Cosentino
is Professor of Byzantine Civilisation at the University of Bologna. His main interests focus on the social and economic history of Late antiquity and Early Byzantium, as well as on the insular world and epigraphy. His major publications include Storia dell’Italia bizantina. Da Giustiniano ai Normanni (Bologna 2008); L’Italia bizantina: una prospettiva economica (CRMH Dossier, 2014) and Ravenna and the Traditions of Late Antique and Early Byzantine Craftsmanship (edited book, Berlin – New York 2020).
Nathaniel Cutajar
is Curator for Medieval Archaeology at the National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta, Malta. He previously worked for the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage and as Curator for the Museums Department. His publications include works on cultural heritage management, as well as on various aspects of Malta’s medieval and post-medieval history and archaeology.
Francesco D’Aiuto
is Professor of Byzantine Philology and History at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. He specializes in Byzantine religious literature – in particular hymnography and hagiography – and in Greek palaeography. His major publications include Tre canoni di Giovanni Mauropode in onore di santi militari, Rome 1994; El “Menologio de Basilio II”, Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1613. (Vatican City 2008); “Un antico inno per la Resurrezione”, Rivista di studi bizantini e neoellenici n.s. 45 (2008); Guida ai fondi manoscritti, numismatici, a stampa della Biblioteca Vaticana (Studi e testi, 466–467), 2 vols. (Vatican City 2011) [in collaboration with P. Vian].
Paola Degni
is Professor of Palaeography at the University of Bologna. Her main research interests focus on the history of Greek handwriting and Byzantine book production, ranging from the Classic antiquity to the middle Byzantine period. Her books, chapters, and articles cover topics such as the history of Greek handwriting (La scrittura greca dall’antichità all’epoca della stampa. Una introduzione, co-edited with E. Crisci, Roma, Carocci, 2011), the ‘scriptorium’ of the Byzantine Ioannikios (Segno e Testo, 6, 2008), the cataloguing of Greek manuscripts (Greek manuscripts Cataloguing. Past, Present, and Future, co-edited with P. Eleuteri, M. Maniaci, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018).
Deborah M. Deliyannis
is Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. She specializes in early medieval historiography, architecture, and episcopal history. Her publications include (ed.) Historiography in the Middle Ages (2003), an edition (2006) and English translation (2004) of Agnellus’ Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis, Ravenna in Late Antiquity (2010) and, with Paolo Squatriti and Hendrik Dey, Fifty Early Medieval Things: Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (2019).
Vera von Falkenhausen
is Professor emerita of Byzantine history at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. Her research is focused on Byzantine and post-Byzantine southern Italy and Sicily. Her bibliography is available on-line at the site of the Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini. Soci. Presidente onorario. She is editor of the Journal “Archivio storico per la Calabria e la Lucania”.
Sauro Gelichi
is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the University of Ca’ Foscari, Venice. He has been director of many archaeological research projects in Italy and abroad, including Tunisia, Syria, Turkey and Montenegro, and has published monographs and articles on archaeological and historical subjects. He is also the principal editor of the Journal Archeologia Medievale.
Jean-Marie Martin
is Directeur de recherche emeritus at the C.N.R.S. He specializes in the history and documentation of southern Italy during the Middle Ages. His major publications include La Pouille du VIe au XIIe siècle (Rome 1993); Chronicon Sanctae Sophiae (cod. Vat. Lat. 4939), 2 vols. (Rome 2000); Guerre, accords et frontières en Italie méridionale pendant le haut Moyen Âge (Rome 2005); Byzance et l’Italie méridionale (Paris 2014); Registrum Petri Diaconi (Montecassino, archivio dell’abbazia, Reg. 3). Edizione e commento, 4 vols. (Rome 2015) [in collaboration with P. Chastang, E. Cuozzo, L. Feller, G. Orofino, A. Thomas, M. Villani].
Federico Marazzi
is Professor of Christian and Medieval Archaeology at Suor Orsola Benincasa University (Naples) and at the University of Pavia. His main interests span from the history of Rome, urban and rural settlement history to monastic settlements history and archaeology between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. His major publications include I “Patrimonia Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae” nel Lazio (IV-X secolo). Struttura amministrativa e prassi gestionali (Rome 1998), San Vincenzo al Volturno tra X e XII secolo (Rome 2011) and Le città dei monaci. Storia degli spazi che avvicinano a Dio (Milan 2015), and, as editor or co-editor, The Ostrogoths. From the Migration period to the Sixth Century (with S. Barnish – Woodbridge 2007), Monasteri in Europa Occidentale (secoli VIII–XI). Topografia e strutture (with Flavia De Rubeis – Rome 2008), and Molise Medievale cristiano. Edilizia religiosa e territorio – secoli IV/XIII (Cerro a Volturno 2018). In 2017/2018 he has been the curator of the exhibition Longobardi. Un popolo che cambia la storia (Pavia – Naples – St. Petersburg).
Alessandra Molinari
is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’. Her main research interests focus on late antique and medieval landscape archaeology and system of exchanges, especially in Central Italy and Sicily. She is currently directing excavations at the Old Cathedral of Arezzo (Tuscany), co-directing with M.O.H. Carver the ERC project “The Archaeology of Regime Change: Sicily in Transition” and is senior researcher in the ERC project “Petrifying Wealth”. She recently co-authored the books L’archeologia della produzione a Roma (secoli V–XV) (2015) and Il medioevo nelle città italiane (2017).
Enrico Morini
is former Associate Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Bologna. His research focuses on the relations between the Greek and Latin Churches (with special attention to Ecclesiology), on Greek monasticism (especially Italo-Greek monasticism), as well as on the investigations of eastern saints’ relics in Italy and on the Greek Philocaly Renaissance. His major publications include: Patriarcati, concili, imperatore. Ricerche storico-ecclesiologiche tra Oriente e Occidente, Spoleto, CISAM 2018; Monachesimo greco in Calabria. Aspetti organizzativi e linee di spiritualità, Bologna, 1999: Ierà leipsana Hagion tes kath’emàs Anatolès ste Benetia (Holy Relics of Eastern Saints in Venice), Athens, 2005; La Chiesa ortodossa. Storia, disciplina, culto, Bologna, ESD, 1996; Gli ortodossi, Bologna, 2002 (translated into Portuguese as: Os Ortodoxos. O Oriente do Ocidente, São Paulo, Brasil, 2005).
Annliese Nef
is Maîtresse de conférences at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She specializes in the history of Islamic Sicily and of the Islamic empire’s construction. Her publications include L’Islam a-t-il une histoire ? Du fait religieux comme fait social (Bordeaux 2017); Conquérir et gouverner la Sicile islamique aux XIe et XIIe siècles (Rome 2011); she edited A Companion to Medieval Palermo (Leiden 2013).
Ghislaine Noyé
is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the École Nationale des Chartes, Paris. Her research focuses on the archaeology and history of southern Italy, on which she wrote extensively. She co-edited (with A. Jacob and J.-M. Martin) Histoire et culture dans l’Italie byzantine: acquis et nouvelles recherches, Rome 2006; her major publications include “Économie et société dans la Calabre byzantine”, Journal des Savant 2000, pp. 209–280; “Les villages dans l’Italie méridionale byzantine” (with J.-M. Martin), in Les villages dans l’émpire byzantin, Paris 2005, pp. 149–164 and “The Still Byzantine Calabria: a Case Study”, in S. Gelichi, R. Hodges (eds.), New Directions in Early Medieval European Archaeology: Spain and Italy compared, Turnhout 2015, pp. 221–266.
Annick Peters-Custot
is Professor at the University of Nantes. She specializes in Byzantine and Norman Southern Italy and in the Greek communities living here. She is currently studying the Western vision of the Eastern monks and the circulation, in the Western area, of the so-called “St. Basil’s rule”, and its posterior rewriting by Bessarion. She is leading a research Programme on the appropriation of the Imperial ideology by non-Imperial States (Imperialiter). Her publications include: Les Grecs de l’Italie méridionale post-byzantine. Une acculturation en douceur (IXe–XIVe siècles), Rome, 2009; Bruno en Calabre. Histoire d’une fondation monastique dans l’Italie normande, Rome, 2014.
Vivien Prigent
is Directeur de recherche at the CNRS UMR 8167. His main interests focus on the social and economic history of 7th–11th century Byzantium, with special interest for Italy, numismatics and sigillography. Major publications include “Le mythe du mancus et les origines de l’économie européenne”, Revue numismatique, 171, 2014, pp. 701–728 and “The mobilisation of tax resources in the Byzantine Empire (eighth to eleventh centuries)”, in J. Hudson and A. Rodriguez (eds.), Diverging Paths? The Shapes of Power and Institutions in the Medieval Christian and Islamic Worlds, Leiden 2014, pp. 182–229. He has been editor (with J.-M. Martin, A. Peters-Custot, S. Brodbeck) of the series L’héritage byzantin en Italie (VIIIe–XIIe siècle), 4 vols, Rome 2011–2017.
Mario Re
is Professor at the ‘Liceo Classico’ Umberto I of Palermo. He specializes in Greek palaeography and Byzantine hagiography. His major publications include Il codice lentinese dei santi Alfio, Filadelfo e Cirino. Studio paleografico e codicologico (Palermo 2007); Italo-Greek Hagiography, in The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography, I: Periods and Places, ed. S. Efthymiadis (Farnham, 2011, pp. 227–258); La Passio dei santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia. Introduzione, edizione delle recensioni greche (BHG 1876, 1876 a-c) e della versione latina BHL 8713, traduzioni, note e indici (Palermo 2018).
Cristina Rognoni
is Associate Professor in Byzantine Civilization at the University of Palermo. She specializes in literary and non-literary sources, Byzantine juridical texts as well as social history of Southern Italy. Her major publications include Les Actes privés grecs de l’Archivo Ducal de Medinaceli (Tolède), 2 vols. (Paris 2004, 2011); “Les fonds d’archives grecs de l’Italie du Sud et de Sicile. Un miroir pour l’Athos ?”, Travaux et Mémoires 23. 2 (2019), pp. 61–84. She is Senior Researcher responsible for the study of the Greek documents in the ERC Advanced Grant H2020 DOCUMULT – Documenting Multiculturalism: coexistence, law, and multiculturalism in Norman and Hohenstaufen Sicily, ca. 1061–1264.
Denis Sami
is Junior Finds Specialist at Oxford Archaeology East. His research fields focus on the archaeology and history of Late Roman and early Byzantine Sicily, the Exarchate of Ravenna and Anglo-Saxon England with particular attention to urbanism and material culture. His recent publications include Debating Urbanism: Within and Beyond the Walls, AD 300–700, Leicester 2010 (edited with G. Speed) and “Road, canal and post-station. The relational capacity of a mansio in Roman and Late Antique Ad Novas-Cesenatico (Italy)”, in E. Gamo Pazos et alii (eds.), En ningún lugar … Caraca y la romanización de la Hispania interior, Guadalajara 2019, pp. 551–562.
Pier Giorgio Spanu
is Professor of Christian and Medieval Archaeology at the University of Sassari. His research interests are mainly focused on late antique and early medieval archaeology, underwater archaeology and landscape archaeology. He has conducted investigations in Sardinia, Sicily, Morocco, Tunisia and Spain.
Enrico Zanini
is Professor in Methodologies of Archaeological Research at the University of Siena, where he also teaches Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology. At present, he manages two archaeological fieldwork projects: the excavations in the early Byzantine District of Gortyn (Crete) (www.gortinabizantina.it), and the excavation on the Roman and Late Antique settlement of Vignale (Tuscany) (www.uominiecoseavignale.it). Recent books: D. Michaelides, Ph. Pergola, E. Zanini (eds.), The Insular System of the Early Byzantine Mediterranean: Archaeology and History, Oxford 2013; P. Basso, E. Zanini (eds.), Statio amoena: Sostare e vivere lungo le strade romane, Oxford 2016.