dr hab. Luciano Gallinari, Ricercatore

Section 14.: One crown, many ethnicities. The multi-ethnic political communities of medieval Europe

This lecture focuses on the analysis of the conflict between the Sardinian rulers known as the Iudices of Arborea, the last Sardinian Giudicato, heir of the centuries-old institutional tradition of Byzantine origin, and the sovereigns of Aragon, also kings of the Kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica since 1297. A clash that arose in the mid-14th century with similar characteristics in much of Europe at the time: the clash between dynasties of ancient nobility and prestige and their respective sovereigns, committed to reducing their prerogatives. A conflict that, in order to face a powerful enemy like the king of Aragon, was transformed by a political propaganda into an ethnic one: Sardinians versus Aragonese, meaning all the subjects of the crown of Aragon, which lasted until 1420 with the Iberian victory. A confrontation that delayed the peaceful incorporation of Sardinians into the multi-ethnic Crown of Aragon by a century.