We would like to share a preview of the volume on the archaeology of natural disasters in medieval Europe which Chris (Gerrard), Peter (Brown) and I (Paolo Forlin) edited for the Society for Medieval Archaeology. The book is expected to be published soon this year. Waiting for the End of the World? The Archaeology of… Read More Our forthcoming book ‘Waiting for the End of the World? The Archaeology of Medieval Disasters’

In November we participated to the 7th International Colloquium on Historical Earthquakes & Paleoseismology Studies (ICHEPS) in Barcelona (link) and in the next few days, as part of the RISKRES project, we went on a field trip in the Spanish Pyrenees. This region was struck by a number of destructive earthquakes in the later Middle… Read More The RISKRES fieldwork in the Spanish Pyrenees. The 1373 Ribagorça earthquake

On Friday the 20th of January 2017, a conference hosted by the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti at the Palazzo Franchetti in Venice commemorated the 900th anniversary of ‘the most severe north Italian earthquake’, as the 1117 ‘Veronese’ earthquake has been labeled. (http://www.istitutoveneto.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/1086; videos of the presentations are on line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LArtXCWyS8&list=PLfcFPNXyAOqYA9ie8eeoPU2ziSQFhHtQi) The conference organisers… Read More Conference on the great 1117 Veronese earthquake (Venice, 20th January 2017)

In November 2016, thanks to the kind support of Protezione Civile, Feltre section, I had the chance to spend four days in the area of Tolentino (province of Macerata, Marche) with the aim of surveying some medieval sites which were recently affected by the 2016 Central Italy earthquakes. Although set slightly away from the epicentral area… Read More Medieval sites affected by the 2016 Central Italy earthquakes in the Tolentino area (Macerata, Marche)