A Companion to Sardinian History, 500–1500

Cagliari 331 Back in the La Marina district, archaeological excavations revealed other important discoveries. Dehumidifying some ...

332 Martorelli In 2007–2008, the area under the left transept in the New Church of Saint Augustine, which was built in sixteenth ...

Cagliari 333 early Christian and medieval archaeologists from the University of Cagliari, in cooperation with architects from th ...

334 Martorelli settled in Cagliari and occupied the site of the Christian building. Written sources tell us that in 935 an impor ...

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336 Rovina the former Roman colony) in the northeast (see infra Fig. 0.3).3 By the second half of the thirteenth century, the sy ...

Sassari 337 Byzantine city of Aristianis, documented in written sources as early as the sev- enth century,7 was related to the t ...

338 Rovina have been dedicated to uncovering the history of both Sassari and settlements preceding it at its present location. T ...

Sassari 339 the coast in the first century BC. The area corresponding to the present city of Sassari did not differ significantl ...

340 Rovina of S. Pietro di Silki lists names of the many villages located within this portion of the giudicato of Torres. Includ ...

Sassari 341 Prior to the discovery of the structures and the material evidence, and based on the topographical reading of the hi ...

342 Rovina number of blind alleys together with a dense urban fabric organized by com- munal courts facing private dwellings: al ...

Sassari 343 Figure 13.4 Excavation trench of the southern houses in Largo Monache Cappuccine (10th–11th c.); (below) excavation ...

344 Rovina two transepts during this same campaign (Fig. 13.6). Such finds indicate that in the early Middle Ages the site was o ...

Sassari 345 Figure 13.5 Hypothetical plan of the Romanesque church of San Nicola. With kind permission of the Archaeological Sup ...

346 Rovina giudicato of Torres. As a result of the steady increase in commerce, people from both the surrounding region and, mor ...

Sassari 347 soon the newcomers’ political and economic interests clashed with the system of the giudicati. 3 The Medieval City o ...

348 Rovina From an urban point of view, during the tenth and eleventh centuries, the transformation of the rural village did not ...

Sassari 349 the chief political post, the podestà, though leaving some autonomy to the local ruling classes, who were represente ...

350 Rovina In 1277, Bishop Dorgotorio subdivided the already populous and urbanized34 Sassari into five parishes: S. Caterina, S ...