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Author:   Angelo Castrorao Barba ,  Giuseppe Mandalà (Associate professor of the History of Islamic Countries, Università degli studi di Milano ‘La Statale’)
Publisher:   Archaeopress
Imprint:   Archaeopress Archaeology
Weight:   0.976kg
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9781803275451

ISBN 10:   1803275456
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   27 July 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction – Angelo Castrorao Barba, Giuseppe Mandalà   I - Urbanscapes, Suburbia, Hinterlands Chapter 1: The Topographical Context of Palermo in the Islamic Age: New Archaeological Research – Stefano Vassallo   Chapter 2: The King’s Hospital in Norman Palermo: San Giovanni dei Lebbrosi in Context – Giuseppe Mandalà, María de los Ángeles Utrero Agudo   Chapter 3: The Process of the Creation and Decline of the Local Religious and Economic Centres of Medieval Sicily: a Case Study of the Santa Maria di Campogrosso Monastery – Sławomir Moździoch, Barbara Szubert, Ewa Moździoch   Chapter 4: A Pattern of Changes in Southern Sicily: Agrigento and its Hinterland between the Byzantine and Norman Periods – Maria Serena Rizzo   II - Inland and Mountainous Landscapes Chapter 5: Contessa Entellina: Rural vs. Urban Medieval Landscapes in Inner Western Sicily – Alessandro Corretti, Claudio Filippo Mangiaracina   Chapter 6: The Settlement of Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo) between the Byzantine and Islamic Periods (7th-11th c. AD) – Angelo Castrorao Barba, Roberto Miccichè, Filippo Pisciotta, Claudia Speciale, Carla Aleo Nero, Pasquale Marino, Giuseppe Bazan   Chapter 7: The Madonie Mountains Area during the Norman Age: from al-Idrīsī to Archaeology – Rosa Maria Cucco   Chapter 8: Water Management, Territorial Organisation and Settlement in Calatafimi (Trapani, Western Sicily) – José María Martín Civantos, Rocco Corselli, Maria Teresa Bonet García   Chapter 9: Late Antique and Early Medieval Settlement Patterns in the Inland Landscape of the Erei Upland (Enna, Central Sicily) – Francesca Valbruzzi   III - Change in Rural Settlement Patterns Chapter 10: Historical and Archaeological Data for the Ancient Road Network in Western Sicily from the Roman Period to the Norman Age – Aurelio Burgio, Alessandra Canale Chapter 11: The End of Antiquity and the New Point of Departure in the Medieval Settlement System of Southern and Central Sicily – Johannes Bergemann   Chapter 12: After the Late Roman Villa of Piazza Armerina: the Islamic Settlement and its Pits – Patrizio Pensabene, Paolo Barresi Chapter 13: Etna’s Northwestern Slopes between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages – Andrea Maria Gennaro   IV – Defence and Control Chapter 14: The Making of the Frontier in the 9th Century. Rocchicella di Mineo (CT) and Rural Landscapes in Eastern Sicily – Lucia Arcifa   Chapter 15: Byzantine and Islamic Villages, ‘Rupestrian Settlements’ and Fortifications in Southeastern Sicily: the LAMIS Project – Giuseppe Cacciaguerra

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Angelo Castrorao Barba is Postdoctoral Researcher (MSCA COFUND PASIFIC 2022-2024) at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology/Centre for Late Antique and Early Medieval Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a specialist in rural settlement patterns from the Roman period to Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages in the Mediterranean area, particularly in Sicily. He has directed survey and excavations in Sicily and Andalusia and he has published on several topics, including the archaeology of Late Antique, Byzantine and Islamic Sicily, the end of Roman villas and interdisciplinary approaches on landscape archaeology.   Giuseppe Mandalà is Associate Professor of the History of Islamic Countries at the Università degli studi di Milano ‘La Statale’, where he teaches the cultural history of the Mediterranean. He specializes in intellectual history and the cultural transmission of texts, as well as the study of their processes of production, diffusion, and reception. He has published extensively on medieval transcultural topics, particularly focusing on Sicily and the Mediterranean.

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