We are pleased to announce the publication of The Making of Medieval Sardinia (Leiden: Brill, 2021), 66 colour illustrations. 520 pages.

Edited by Dr Alex Metcalfe, Dr Hervin Fernández-Aceves and Dr Marco Muresu, this new volume combines classic and revisionist essays to explore the historiography of Sardinia’s exceptional transition from an island of the Byzantine empire to the rise of its own autonomous rulers, the iudikes, by the 1000s. In addition to Sardinia’s 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’s early medieval churches, its fine arts, architecture and archaeology.

The volume will be of interest to both specialists and to a wider range of scholars alike.

The book is available in hardback and eBook. Further details are available here.

Full access to the volume is available via the library for Lancaster University staff and students.

The Making of Medieval Sardinia has been published as part of a four-year AHRC-Standard Grant project ‘Power, society, and (dis)connectivity in medieval Sardinia’.