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the Great and Gregory VII, and their policies on the island, together with other
issues such as the formation of the University of Sassari and his battle to keep
alive the Sardinian languages in the liturgy.
Corrado Zedda
holds degrees in Medieval History from the University of Cagliari and
Paleography from the State Archives (La Gancia) in Cagliari. Zedda currently
teaches at the University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli and formerly taught an
interdisciplinary course in the Comparative History of Europe and Sardinia
at the University of Cagliari. He has conducted research in various interna-
tional archives, as well as in the Department of Historical and Artistic Studies
at the University of Palermo. Zedda’s work deals with issues relating to the his-
torical, political, economic, and social ties between Sardinia and Sicily in the
late Middle Ages. His books include L’ultima illusione mediterranea: il comune
di Pisa, il regno di Gallura e la Sardegna nell’età di Dante (2006), Le città della
Gallura medioevale: commercio, società e istituzioni (2003), and Cagliari: un
porto commerciale nel Mediterraneo del Quattrocento (2001). In 2015, Zedda
edited the volume 1215–2015: Ottocento anni della fondazione del Castello di
Castro di Cagliari for the online journal RiMe–Rivista dell’lstituto di Storia
dell’Europa Mediterranea.