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Dr. Luigi Andrea Berto is Professor of medieval history at ɫɫ�� Michigan University.

Courses he teaches include:

• History 1000: Early ɫɫ�� World
• History 1010: Modern ɫɫ�� World
• History 2020: World History to 1500
• History 3015: History and Film
• History 4495: Colonialism and Protest in Film
• History 4495: Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages
• History 6120: Making History in the Early Middle Ages
• History 6120: Cultural History of Medieval Italy
• History 6820: Medieval and Renaissance Venice
• History 6820: “Francia” and Italy in the Early Middle Ages
• History 6820: Medieval Mediterranean

 He advises graduate students interested in medieval Italy.

His books include:

• Ethnic Identity, Memory, and Use of the Past in Italy's 'Dark Ages' (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2022).
• Old Stories and Contemporary Issues in Films about Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Idealistic Thinking, Sex, Lies, and Video Political Agendas (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2022).
• Christians under the Crescent and Muslims under the Cross c.630–1923 (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2021).
• Early Medieval Venice: Cultural Memory and History (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2020).
• Christians and Muslims in Early Medieval Italy: Perceptions, Encounters, and Clashes (London and New York: Routledge, 2020).
• Making History in Ninth-Century Northern and Southern Italy (Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2018).
• Cristiani e musulmani nell’Italia dei primi secoli del Medioevo. Percezioni, scontri e incontri (Milan: Jouvence, 2018).
• I raffinati metodi d’indagine e il mestiere dello storico. L’alto medioevo italiano all’inizio del terzo millennio (Mantua: Universitas Studiorum, 2016).La guerra, la violenza, gli altri e la frontiera nella “Venetia” altomedievale (Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2016).
• In Search of the First Venetians: Prosopography of Early Medieval Venice, Studies in the Early Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014).
• The Political and Social Vocabulary of John’s the Deacon’s ‘Istoria Veneticorum’, Cursor Mundi 12, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California at Los Angeles (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013).

Editions and Translations of Medieval Latin Texts:

• History of the Venetian Dukes (1102-1229) with an Appendix of Brief Venetian Historical Texts, edition and translation into English (Venice: Centro di Studi medievali e Rinascimentali ‘E. A. Cicogna’, 2021).
• The Little History of the Lombards of Benevento by Erchempert: A Critical Edition and Translation of ‘Ystoriola Longobardorum Beneventum degentium’,edition and translation into English (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2021).
• Franks and Lombards in Italian Carolingian Texts: Memories of the Vanquished, edition and translation into English (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2021).
• Storia dei vescovi napoletani (I secolo – 876) / Gesta Episcoporum Neapolitanorum, edition and translation into Italian (Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2018).
• Italian Carolingian Historical and Poetic Texts, edition and translation into English (Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2016).
• Erchemperto, Piccola Storia dei Longobardi di Benevento / Ystoriola Longobardorum Beneventum degentium, edition and translation into Italian, Nuovo Medioevo (Naples: Liguori, 2013).
• Giovanni Diacono, Istoria Veneticorum, edition and translation into Italian, Istituto storico Italiano per il Medioevo (Bologna: Zanichelli, 1999).