xxvi Notes On Contributors
Rossana Martorelli
teaches Medieval and Christian Archaeology, directs the Scuola di
Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici, and is the president of the Faculty of
Humanities at the University of Cagliari. Her main research interests include
the problems of urban archaeology in Sardinia and the Mediterranean from the
late antique to the medieval period. She has worked extensively on the city of
Cagliari with particular attention to the first Christian communities, the cause
and effect of the cult of martyrdom, and the dynamics of monastic settlement
patterns between the fourth and the eleventh centuries. Her major publica-
tions are Archeologia cristiana e medievale in Sardegna. Introduzione allo studio
(Cagliari: CUEC, 2008); Tharros, San Giovanni e le origini del cristianesimo nel
Sinis (Ghilarza: Iskra, 2010); Martiri e devozione nella Sardegna altomedievale
e medievale (Cagliari: Pontificia Facoltà Teologica della Sardegna, 2012). She is
editor of numerous volumes, among the most recent of which are Settecento-
Millecento Storia, Archeologia e Arte nei “secoli bui” del Mediterraneo Dalle fonti
scritte, archeologiche ed artistiche alla ricostruzione della vicenda storica la
Sardegna laboratorio di esperienze culturali. Atti del Convegno di Convegno
di Studi (Cagliari, Dipartimento di Storia, Beni culturali 17–19 ottobre 2012)
(Cagliari: Scuola Sarda Editrice, 2013), with the collaboration of Silvia Marini,
and Isole e terraferma nel primo cristianesimo. Identità locale ed interscambi
culturali, religiosi e produttivi, Atti dell’XI Congresso Nazionale di Archeologia
Cristiana (Cagliari—Sant’Antioco, 23–27 settembre 2014) (Cagliari: PFTS
University Press, 2015), with Antonio Piras and Pier Giorgio Spanu.
Giampaolo Mele
teaches History of Medieval and Renaissance Music at the University of
Sassari, where he also taught Latin Paleography and Musical Paleography. He
is visiting professor at the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Sardinia. He is also
the Scientific Director of the “Istituto Storico Arborense” (Istar, Oristano). He
has published several books and essays on hymnody and hymnology; liturgi-
cal music codicology; history of medieval music; archival sources; paleogra-
phy and musical philology (monophonic sources); jesters; history of music in
Sardinia. Among his latest publications: Manuale di Innologia. Introduzione
all’innodia dei secoli IV–XVII in Occidente. Volume I. Fonti e strumenti.
Repertorium Hymnologicum Novissimum: 1841–2012, introduction by A. Piras,
preface by G. Baroffio (Cagliari: PFTS University Press, 2012); the Editio Maior,
with Supplementum, planned for winter 2017.