Dinamiche insediative nelle campagne dell'Italia tra Tarda Antichità e Alto Medioevo

Contents

Introduction: Insights on late antique and early medieval settlement patterns in Italian countryside – Angelo Castrorao Barba ;
Dinamiche di cristianizzazione e di popolamento di uno spazio rurale di confine tra il tardo antico e l'epoca carolingia: il caso della Carnia (Udine) / Settlement and Christianization patterns of a border rural space between Late Antiquity and the Carolingian age: the case of Carnia (Udine) – Stefano Roascio ;
L'Oltrepò Pavese. Un territorio “cerniera” tra continuità e trasformazione del paesaggio antico e nascita delle signorie rurali / L’Oltrepò Pavese. An ‘hinge’ territory between continuity and change of ancient landscape and the emergence of rural lordship – Elena Dellù ;
Dinamiche insediative nella Liguria di ponente in età postclassica: la mansio e il complesso paleocristiano di Capo Don a Riva Ligure (Imperia) / Post-classical settlement patterns in West Liguria: the mansio and the early Christian complex of Capo Don at Riva Ligure (Savona) – Philippe Pergola, Alessandro Garrisi, Alessandro Bona, Federico Zoni ;
Ricerche recenti e nuovi dati dal sito di San Calocero ad Albenga (Savona) tra Tardo Antico e Medioevo / Recent research and new data from the site of San Calocero at Albegna (Savona) between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages – Philippe Pergola, Stefano Roascio, Elena Dellù, Gabriele Castiglia ;
‘Inneclesiamento’ rurale e reti insediative nella toscana settentrionale (IV-X sec. d.C.) / Church and settlement rural networks in Northern Tuscany (4th-10th century AD) – Gabriele Castiglia ;
Il sito di Vignale (Livorno) in età tardoantica e i suoi contesti possibili / The site of Vignale (Livorno) during Late Antiquity and its possible contexts – Elisabetta Giorgi ;
La crisi economica degli insediamenti secondari romani nella Toscana meridionale (V-VIII sec. d.C.) ed il caso di Santa Cristina in Caio (Siena) / The economic crisis of the Roman secondary settlements in southern Tuscany (V-VIII century) and the case of Santa Cristina in Caio (Siena) – Stefano Bertoldi ;
La Sabina in età tardoantica e le nuove ricerche alla villa di Cottanello (Rieti), / Late antique Sabina and the new research in the villa of Cottanello (Rieti) – Carla Sfameni ;
Il Salento rurale nell’altomedioevo: territorio, insediamenti e cultura materiale / Rural Salento during the Early Middle Ages: landscape, settlements and material culture – Paul Arthur, Marco Leo Imperiale, Giuseppe Muci ;
La cultura materiale del monachesimo italo-greco: indagini in corso e prospettive di ricerca / The material culture of Italo-Greek monasticism: current investigations and research perspectives – Francesca Zagari

About the Author

Angelo Castrorao Barba (Palermo, 1983) is currently a Fellow at the University of Palermo (Sicily, Italy). His principal fields of interest are Late Antique and Early Medieval Archaeology and the transformations of landscape and settlement patterns from Roman times to the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean area. In 2013, he obtained a PhD in Medieval Archaeology (University of Siena) with a dissertation about the end of Roman villas in Italy between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (AD 200-800). In 2014, he received a post-graduate Masters Diploma in GIS & Remote Sensing (Centre for Geo Technologies / Siena). In 2014-2015 he was a guest researcher at VU University Amsterdam and a postdoctoral fellow at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR). In summer 2018 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the DFG Center for Advanced Studies ‘Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages’ of the University of Tübingen. For the period 2018/2020 he is a postdoctoral scholar in the Getty-sponsored workshop series ‘Mediterranean Palimpsests: Connecting the Art and Architectural Histories of Medieval & Early Modern Cities’. Currently (2016-2018), he is a research fellow on the project ‘Harvesting Memories’ (University of Palermo / Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA. of Palermo) which aims to study the ecology and archaeology of rural landscapes in the Sicani Mountains (C-W Sicily).