Notes on Contributors
Laura Biccone
is currently both research assistant in the Medieval Archaeological department
at the University of Sassari, and a collaborator with the local Superintendency
for Archaeology of Sardinia. Her two fields of interest are urban archeological
excavations and is specialized in pottery analysis. She studied Classics and has
a second degree on Late Antique and Medieval Archeology from the University
of Pisa. In 2010 she completed doctorate pottery trade in Sardinia between
the ninth and fifteenth centuries around the Mediterranean. Her major pub-
lications are on Fonti materiali per la storia delle relazioni commerciali tra
Genova e la Sardegna in età medievale, in Genova: una “porta” del Mediterraneo,
Cagliari 2005, pp. 329–366 and with R. Carta “Il commercio della ceramica
nella Sardegna tardomedievale”, in La Sardegna nel Mediterraneo tardomedi-
evale. Atti del Convegno di studio (Sassari, 13–14 dicembre 2012), edited by P.F.
Simbula e A. Soddu, Centro Europeo Ricerche Medievali (CERM) Trieste, 2013,
pp. 367–407.
Nathalie Bouloux
is Maître de Conférences at the Université François Rabelais de Tours, asso-
ciated with the Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance. Her research
focuses on representations of space, specifically cultural geography of the
ninth through the fifteenth centuries, space, territory, and humanist geogra-
phy. She is the author of Culture et savoirs géographiques en Italie au XIVe siècle
(Turnhout, 2002), and of the chapter “L’espace habité” in the volume directed
by Patrick Gautier Dalché, La Terre. Connaissance, représentations, mesure
(Turnhout, 2013).
Henri Bresc
professor of medieval history, taught at the Nice University between 1983 and
1990, when he then moved to Paris X-Nanterre for the period between 1990–
- In 2003 he was awarded a doctorate honoris causa from the University of
Palermo. He studied in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure and became fel-
low at the École Française of Rome. In 1967 he traveled from Paris to Rome and
Palermo, and in 1986 he wrote Un monde méditerranéen: économie et société
en Sicile (1300–1460). Other publications include Livre et société en Sicile (1299–
- (Palerme, 1971); Palerme 1070–1492. Mosaïque de peuples, nation rebelle:
la naissance violente de l’identité sicilienne (Paris: Autrement, 1993); Arabes de
langue, Juifs de religion. L’évolution du judaïsme sicilien dans l’environnement