A. Chavarria Arnau, M. Jurković (eds.), Alla ricerca di un passato complesso. Contributi in onore di Gian Pietro Brogiolo per il suo settantesimo compleanno, Dissertationes et Monographiae 8, Zagreb-Motovun 2016, 380 pp.
Within the publication plan of the project, and in close cooperation with the International Research Centre for Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, University of Zagreb – IRCLAMA (head M. Jurković), the 8th volume of the series Dissertationes et Monographiae was published and presented to the public on June 1st 2016 in Zadar.
The book is hommage to Gian Pietro Brogiolo for his 70th birthday. Gian Pietro Brogiolo, member of the project team, has without doubt been one of the most important figures in the process that transformed traditional Italian archaeology into a modern, interdisciplinary and international science. As an academic, he has been a reference point for various topics in post-classical archaeology (e.g. the end of the Roman villas, the development of castles, the transformation of the city between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages) and methodologies (archaeology of architecture, landscape archaeology), not only for Italian students, but also at an international level. This book gathers twenty-six papers by some of the most important European medieval archaeologists, art historians and historians, giving hommage to Gian Pietro Brogiolo. Contributions have been organised in three sections “Between Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages”, “Architecture and churches”, and “Policies for cultural heritage management”, reflecting some of the topics that Brogiolo has developed during his professional career, but also topics relevant to the project CROMART.
The book contains a Foreword written by the editors (both members of the research team – A. Chavarria and M. Jurković, and 5 articles written by project team members: X. Barral i Altet, A. Chavarria, Chr. Sapin, M. Jurković and I. Matejčić (see the project bibliography).
The volume was presented in Zadar by 2 project team members, A. Chavarria and M. Jurković, as well as V. La Salvia, during the 23rd annual colloquium of IRCLAMA, partly financed by the Croatian Science Foundation.