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ABSTRACT<br />

The theme of páperos (“poors”) in medieval Sardinia (XI-XII century) has been<br />

object of many studies since the end of nineteenth century. The historiography mainly<br />

put its attention on binomial donnos paperos (“poor lords”) and identifi ed these fi gures<br />

now with the giudice and the members of his family, now with the notables of the<br />

giudicato, now with the monks, now with the “poor knights”, but somebody thinks<br />

paperos are the inhabitants of the village communities. Basing itself on fundamental<br />

studies of Bosl, Mollat, Patlagean, this essay analyzes the phenomenon in comparative<br />

terms, trying to explain the origin and the meaning of so-called paperos, which are to<br />

identify with the lower classes, but not indigent, of medieval Sardinian society, verifying<br />

possible Byzantine heritages and analogies with the Carolingian world.<br />

1. LE FONTI<br />

ALESSANDRO SODDU<br />

I PÁPEROS (“POVERI”) NELLA SARDEGNA GIUDICALE<br />

(XI-XII SECOLO).<br />

EREDITÀ BIZANTINE, ECHI CAROLINGI,<br />

PECULIARITÀ LOCALI<br />

L’attestazione più antica di “poveri” nella Sardegna medioevale si ritrova in una<br />

lettera di papa Gregorio Magno del luglio 591 indirizzata a Gennadio, patrizio ed<br />

esarca d’Africa 1 , affi nché ponesse fi ne alle malversazioni degli uomini del magister<br />

Un ringraziamento agli amici e colleghi Pinuccia Simbula, Mauro Sanna, Antonello Sanna,<br />

Silvio De Santis, Enrico Basso, Paola Crasta e Francesco Obinu per l’aiuto a diverso titolo prestato<br />

per la realizzazione di questo lavoro.<br />

1. Ep. I, 59; T. PINNA, Gregorio Magno e la Sardegna, Cagliari 1989, pp. 112 e 138.

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