Cristina La Rosa is PhD in ‘Languages, cultures and societies’ at Ca’ Foscari University (Venice). Her research focuses on Medieval Sicilian Arabic. The title of her doctorate thesis is L’arabo di Sicilia nel contesto magrebino: nuove prospettive e nuovi approcci metodologici (Sicilian Arabic in Maghribi Context: New Perspectives and New Methodological Approach).
This volume deals with the evidence from manuscripts and handwritten documents with multilingual and multigraphic structures in Arabic, Hebrew, Latin and Greek, conceived and designed to display texts in different languages or scripts, as well as addressing the historical context of these testimonia (their production, use and circulation) and focusing on problems inherent to multicultural societies.