Fentress, M. Maiuro, Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome, 22 (London: British School at Rome, 2016), + online database, c atalogue, and specialist essays Villa Magna: an Imperial Estate and its Legacies. The Rome of Pope Paschal I (817-824): papal power, urban renovation, church rebuilding and relic translation , Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought 77. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). The archaeological record is the only body of early medieval evidence that is presently expanding consideration of material sources against and alongside textual ones offers new vantage points on how early medieval rulers claimed political and cultural hegemony and how their subjects and the rest of the world might have experienced it. In addition to excavation, I use standing buildings archaeology, archaeological archives, and material culture studies in my research.Ĭultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).

I have published extensively on medieval documentary and historical texts, such as chronicles, hagiography, and more recently charters and diplomata. My work deliberately moves between the disciplines of history and archaeology. I am particularly interested in how cities facilitated certain forms of social interaction and political authority and how changing religious practices and politics related to day-to-day experiences (and how these have been transmitted to us through material and textual records). My research concentrates on the nature of power in this part of the early medieval world, looking at how different groups positioned themselves as successors to the Romans’ past glories or as innovators in a new world order. 1100, taking as my evidence archaeology and material culture as well as a range of texts. The Western Mediterranean witnessed the emergence of several different political structures in the post-Roman period, ranging from provinces within a larger empire to independent city-states. I focus on the period between c. I take a transdisciplinary approach to the rise of early medieval polities in the Western Mediterranean, including North Africa and in particular, Italy.

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