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 administrativelegal 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 SardinianEnglish 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 is Senior Lecturer in History at Lancaster University. His works on the medieval Mediterranean include The Society of Norman Italy (2002), Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily (2003), I Musulmani dellItalia 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).
