Giudicale

Legal writings and first literary proofs

In the absence of cultured literature in the Sardinian language, the works that circulated during the judicial period on the island must have been those in Latin, or Tuscan, or Catalan. In the Middle Ages, Sardinia experienced its own special history, rich in original characters.

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The oldest documents in the Sardinian language

The island's Middle Ages left behind a significant legacy of acts, documents and legal codes written in Sardinian. The quality and quantity of the production in the vulgar language is such as to give Sardinia a position...

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The Condaghi

The Condaghi, made between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, are among the first testimonies of the Sardinian vulgar. These are manuscripts on parchment, with documents relating to donations and assets of churches o...

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Religious literature

Scholars have struggled to reconstruct the role of religious literature in the Sardinian Middle Ages. The absolute scarcity of sources made it difficult to scientifically document a production that must certainly have be...

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Legal and literary Catalan

With the conquest of the island by the Crown of Aragon, Sardinia became part of the group of Mediterranean regions in which Catalan is the hegemonic language.

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