La Sardegna e le reti mercantili del Mediterraneo nel basso Medioevo
Sardinia and the trade networks of the Mediterranean in the late Middle Ages
Abstract
The essay provides an interpretive synthesis on the economic history of late medieval Sardinia, with a particular focus on the merchant networks and trade flows that affected the island between the 12th and 15th centuries. From this point of view, the traditional tripartition between a ‘Giudicale’ period, a ‘Pisan-Genoese’ period and a ‘Catalan’ period offers a still useful point of reference, provided that the political and cultural dimensions, usually associated with these labels, are also joined by a geo-economic characterization. As much as the medieval history of Sardinia has not infrequently been interpreted as a unicum on the Euro-Mediterranean scenario, the broader contexts, including those centred on the great Italo-Iberian maritime and mercantile empires, often have much to say about the centuries-old evolutions of the island's economy.
Il saggio fornisce una sintesi interpretativa sulla storia economica della Sardegna basso-medievale, con un particolare focus sulle reti mercantili e i flussi commerciali che interessarono l’Isola tra XII e XV secolo. Da questo punto di vista, la tripartizione tradizionale tra un periodo ‘giudicale’, uno ‘pisano-genovese’ e uno ‘catalano’ offre un punto di riferimento ancora utile, a patto che alla dimensione politica e culturale, associata di norma a queste etichette, si aggiunga anche una caratterizzazione geo-economica. Per quanto la storia medievale della Sardegna sia stata non di rado interpretata come un unicum sullo scenario euro-mediterraneo, i contesti più larghi, tra cui quelli incentrati sui grandi empori marittimi e mercantili italo-iberici, hanno spesso molto da dire sulle evoluzioni plurisecolari dell’economia isolana.
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