Associate Professor
ARCH-01/E Archeologia cristiana, tardoantica e medievale
molinari@lettere.uniroma2.it
Education
Degree in Humanities from the University of Siena in July 1987. Supervisor Prof. Riccardo Francovich, 110/110 cum laude.
PhD in Archaeology (University of Pisa, Florence, Siena), awarded on 27/10/1994, tutor Prof. Riccardo Francovich.
Post-doctoral fellowship of the Spanish Government – Ministerio de Educaciòn Y Ciencia for 1995, at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Departament d’Historia de les Societats Precapitalistes i d’Antropologia Social.
Post-doctoral scholarship at the Department of Archaeology and History of Arts of the University of Siena – academic years 1996-98
Teaching Positions
Medieval Archaeology at the Universities of: Udine, Siena, Arezzo, RomaTre and Roma Tor Vergata
Fields of research
Medieval Archaeology, Economic History, Archaeometry, Islamic Archaeology
Editorial boards
since 1987 “Archeologia Medievale”; since 2020 co-director
from 1990 to 1996 “Archeologia e Calcolatori”
since 2008 “Arqueologia y Territorio Medieval”
since 2013 “Territorio, Sociedad y Poder. Revista de Estudios Medievales”
since 2015 online Fold&r.
since 2015 Collana Adrias directed by Giuliano Volpe (Editrice Edipuglia)
since 2017 “Quaderni Storici”
since 2019 “Storia dell’agricoltura”
since 2020 “Rivista di Archeologia RdA” dell’Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia
Archeological excavation
1989-1997 and 2000 – Segesta (TP) and its territory
1996 – Selinunte (MZ)
1997 – Mazara del Vallo
1998-99 – Siena – Santa Maria della Scala Hospital
2000-2006 and 2016-18 Arezzo Colle del Pionta
2006-2010 – Montecchio Vesponi Castle (AR)
2009-2010 – Rome- Piazza Navona 62 (in collaboration with the École Française de Rome)
2014-2019 – territory of Castronovo di Sicilia sites of: Monte Kassar, Colle San Vitale, Valle dei mulini, Casale San Pietro
Research training and grants
2016-2022 – Co-director of the ERC project “The Archaeology of Regime Change. Sicily in Transition (6th to 13th) (SICTRANSIT);
2016-2022 – Senior researcher of the ERC project “Petrifying Wealth”
Selected international colloquia and papers
2012 – “Villamagna Tardoantica e medievale. Signori, Monaci, Contadini”, British School at Rome
X 10th International Congress on Medieval pottery in the Mediterranean, Silves (PT)
“Le processus d’islamisation en Sicile et en Méditerranée Centrale”, Palermo
Coloquio Internacional, Construcción y dinámicas del paisaje medieval, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)
2013 – International Medieval Congress Leeds, 1-4 July 2013
Convegno “L’incastellamento: quarant’anni dopo Les structures du Latium médiéval di Pierre Toubert” Bologna
2014 – Organization with L. Spera e R. Santangeli Valenzani of the International Congress: Archeologia della produzione a Roma. Secoli V-XV. Roma, 27-29 marzo.
2015 – “Italy and Medieval Europe/L’Italia e L’Europa medievale. A Fest in honour of/Una Festa in onore di Chris Wickham” (British School at Rome, 20-23 January 2015).
XXV Convegno Internazionale di Studi del Centro Italiano di Studi di Storia e d’Arte, “La crescita economica dell’occidente medievale. Un tema storico non ancora esaurito”, Pistoia.
Coloquio Hispano-Italiano, Arqueologia Medieval. 25 anos despues. Homenaje a Riccardo Francovich, Granada.
Congress “I tempi del consolidamento. Venezia, l’Adriatico e l’entroterra tra IX e X secolo”, Venice.
Seminario: Guerres et Richesses: conflits armès et dynamiques socio-èconomiques dans l’Italie du haut moyen-age (VIIe-IXe siècle), Ecole Francaise de Rome.
2016 – Seminar on “Archeologia tardoantica ed alto-medievale in Italia (IV-X secolo) ricerche in corso”, at the Reale Istituto Neerlandese di Roma.
Congress: La città che produce. Archeologia della produzione negli spazi urbani, Agrigento.
2017 – The Normans in the South: Mediterranean Meetings in the Central Middle Ages, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford;
Organization with S. Gelichi of the International Congress: “I contenitori da trasporto alto-medievali e medievali (VIII-XII secolo). Centri produttori, contenuti, reti di scambio”,: École française de Rome.
Change and Resilience: the Occupation of Mediterranean Islands in Late Antiquity. An International Conference at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World Brown University, 60 Providence, USA
2018 – Seminario su “Political Logic of Mediterranean Landscape”, Roma 28-30 giugno
Convegno Internazionale “La Sicilia e il Mediterraneo dal Tardo Antico al Medioevo. Riflessioni e prospettive di ricerca tra archeologia e storia”, Palermo 11-13 ottobre, con M.O.H. Carver
2019 – Seminar A Tale Of Two Sicilies. Current Research On Sicilian Early Medieval History, Maison française d’Oxford 27 May.
Meeting for Cooperation. Italian-Egyptian Workshop for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Cairo, 8th-10th December
2020 – Organization with F. Giovannini of the International Congress: Il paesaggio pietrificato. La storia sociale dell’Europa tra X e XIII secolo attraverso l’archeologia del costruito, Arezzo.
EAA 2020 Section 67. Gens Normannorum – understanding Norman identity through material culture
2021 – Convegno Internazionale di studi (online), La difesa militare bizantina in Italia (secoli VI-XI).
Table ronde / Round table: Territoires en Transition, La longue durée des relations peuplement-environnement en milieu côtier et insulaire de la Méditerranée septentrionale (de la Préhistoire au Moyen âge), Besançon, 22 – 24 septembre
XXVIII Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Medioevo che crea. Innovazione, invenzione e sperimentazione (Italia, metà X – metà XIV secolo), Pistoia
EAA 2021 – sessions 179 and 85;
Round Table #216 at EAA 2021: Horizon Europe: Addressing the Priorities
“Archaeology, Urban Networks and Landscapes of Settlement in the Long-Term”, Alicante (ES).