About the Author

Paolo Delogu is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'. He is the author of numerous articles and books on the economic and political history of medieval Italy, including Mito di una citta meridionale (Salerno, secoli VIII-XI) (Naples, 1977), I Normanni in Italia. Cronache della conquista e del regno (Naples, 1984), and (with Lidia Paroli) La storia di Roma nell'alto medioevo alla luce dei recenti scavi archeologici (Florence, 1993). Matthew Moran is an early medievalist at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, and the University of Delaware, London. He is co-editor (with John Mitchell) of England and the Continent in the Middle Ages (Stamford, 2000).