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Marco Milanese
is Professor of Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology and Archaeological
Methods and the director of the Department of History and Social Science at
the University of Sassari. Milanese has a Laurea from the University of Genoa
and a doctorate from the University of Siena. As an archaeologist, Milanese has
participated in and directed more than 250 excavations and field surveys span-
ning Liguria, Sardinia, Tuscany, Lombardy, Abruzzo, Tunisia, and Portugal. In
1997, he founded the international journal Archeologia Postmedievale, which
he continues to direct. Milanese also created the first museum dedicated to
abandoned villages in Italy (Biddas in Sorso, Sassari). His research concen-
trates on settlement patterns in both urban and rural areas of the western
Mediterranean from the late antique to the modern period. Milanese is a pro-
lific author, with over 550 publications to his name. Among his most notable
recent books are Alghero: archeologia di una città medieval (2013) and the
edited volumes L’Africa Romana (2010) and Vita e morte dei villaggi rurali tra
Medioevo ed età moderna (2006).
Giovanni Murgia
teaches Modern History and is the director of the graduate program on Modern
and Contemporary History at the University of Cagliari. His interests encom-
pass Mediterranean historiography, Sardinian issues particularly in the Spanish
and Savoy periods, with special attention to the socio-political and institu-
tional powers over the rural landscape. His major publications are: Comunità e
Baroni. La Sardegna spagnola (secc. XV–XVII) (Roma: Carocci, 2000); La società
rurale nella Sardegna sabauda (Dolianova-Cagliari: Grafica del Parteolla, 2000);
Il Parlamento del viceré Fabrizio Doria duca d’Avellano (1641–1643, vols I–III
(Cagliari: Consiglio Regionale della Sardegna, 2006); Un’isola, la sua storia. La
Sardegna tra Aragona e Spagna (secoli XIV–XVII) (Dolianova-Cagliari: Grafica
del Parteolla, 2012); Un’isola, la sua storia. La Sardegna sabauda (1720–1847)
(Dolianova-Cagliari: Grafica del Parteolla, 2014). Together with collegues he
edited the following volumes: Sardegna, Spagna e Mediterraneo. Dai Re Cattolici
al secolo d’oro, with Bruno Anatra (Roma: Carocci, 2004); Spagna e Italia in
Età moderna. Storiografie a confronto (secoli XVI–XVIII). Atti del Convegno di
Studi, with Francisco Chacon, Gianfranco Tore, and Maria Antonietta Visceglia
(Roma: Viella, 2009); Contra Moros y Turcos. Politiche e sistemi di difesa degli
Stati mediterranei della Corona di Spagna in Età moderna. Atti del Convegno
di Studi, with Bruno Anatra, Maria Grazia Mele, and Giovanni Serreli, vols I–II
(Dolianova-Cagliari: Grafica del Parteolla, 2008).