This ground-breaking volume presents a collection of the most important charter materials of medieval Sardinia from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries. Composed in Sardinian, they include the earliest administrativeâlegal documents from a European chancery to be written in vernacular and not in Latin or Greek.
New readings from the primary sources are here translated into English for the first time, and they are accompanied by a SardinianâEnglish glossary of terms, opening up the politics, society, culture, and language of an island at the centre of the medieval Mediterranean to a wide range of historians.
Alex Metcalfe, Lancaster University and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, primarily researches the medieval Mediterranean. His works on the medieval Mediterranean include The Society of Norman Italy (2002), Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily (2003), I Musulmani dellâItalia medievale (2019) and The Making of Medieval Sardinia (2021).
Hervin Fernández-Aceves, teaches and researches medieval and social history at El Colegio de Jalisco and at Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara. His publications include County and Nobility in Norman Italy (2020) and The Making of Medieval Sardinia (2021).
Maurizio Virdis is Emeritus Professor of Romance Philology and Sardinian Linguistics at the University of Cagliari. His publications include Gloser la lettre. Marie de France, Renaut de Beaujeu, Jean Renart (2001), Gerolamo Araolla: Rimas diversas spirituales (2006) and La Sardegna e la sua lingua. Studi e saggi (2018).
Acknowledgements Provisional List of the Rulers of the Sardinian iudicatos Maps and Figures
Introduction
â1âFrom Archons to Iudikes to Reges
â2âThe Languages of Medieval Sardinia
â3âEarly Sardinian Charters and the Carte volgari
â4âThe Sardinian Condaghes from Torres and Arborea
â5âThe Carta de Logu
Text and Translation of the Carte volgari
Text and Translation of the Condaghe of San Pietro di Silki
Text and Translation of the Condaghe of Santa Maria di Bonárcado
Text and Translation of the Carta de Logu of Arborea
Medieval SardinianâEnglish Glossary Bibliography Index
The volume will be of interest to academics and university library acquisitions staff; post- and undergraduates; specialist Historians (of Sardinia; of Mediterranean); general Historians (of medieval period); Linguists (historical; Romance); Byzantinists; Sardinians; journalists; policy-makers (Italy; Sardinia), and the wider interested public.