Giuseppe MandalaAngelo Castrorao Barba is Postdoctoral Researcher (MSCA COFUND PASIFIC 2022-2024) at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology/Centre for Late Antique and Early Medieval Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a specialist in rural settlemet patterns from the Roman period to Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages in the Mediterranean area, particularly in Sicily. He has directed survey and excavations in Sicily and Andalusia and he has published on several topics, including the archaeology of Late Antique, Byzantine and Islamic Sicily, the end of Roman villas and interdisciplinary approaches on landscape archaeology. Giuseppe Mandala is Associate Professor of the History of Islamic Countries at the Universita degli studi di Milano 'La Statale', where he teaches the cultural history of the Mediterranean. He specializes in intellectual history and the cultural transmission of texts, as well as the study of their processes of production, diffusion, and reception. He has published extensively on medieval transcultural topics, particularly focusing on Sicily and the Mediterranean. Read More Read Less