by Marie Antonia Parsons

My work of passion and information is a history of Sardinia, intended for a broad English-reading audience including high school and college students, post-grads, and interested individuals from every area of reading life.

This history will begin in the pre-Neolithic period (c 8000 BC) and continue through the Unification of the nation of Italy (1850s-1870s AC.)

Highlights of Sardinia’s history will include

Neolithic period: Sardinian Obsidian use and trade and Indigenous Settlements

Bronze Age: Sardinian use and trade of Copper and bronze; Interaction with Cyprus, Myceneans and other Greeks; Sardinia and the Sea Peoples; The evolution and rise of the Nuraghi towers.

Iron Age: Arrival on Sardinia of the Phoenicians (including the Nora Stone inscription), then the Carthaginians; the founding of their cities; the Interactions between both those groups and the Indigenous Sardinian people;

Roman and Byzantine Sardinia: Truceless/Mercenary War; Ampsicora’s Rebellion; Sardinia’s role as Rome’s Granary; Christian and indigenous practices

Medieval Sardinia: Autonomous government by the four Judges of Arborea, Gallura, Cagliari and Torres; invasion by the Arabs; Becoming part of the Crown of Aragon; Interaction with Pisa and Intermarriages.

Spanish Sardinia

Sardinia and the Savoy kings