BETWEEN MYTHOPOIESIS, STEREOTYPES AND UNCONSCIOUS PROJECTIONS. SOME CASE STUDIES OF THE HISTORIOGRAPHY ON MEDIEVAL SARDINIA (19TH-21ST CENTURIES)

This article proposes some reflections on the historiography produced in the last century and a half on medieval Sardinia, used as a case study because in the island the Middle Ages has been showered with nationalistic and identitarian values and references, which have often been used for contemporary political and cultural purposes. A historiography that in some cases shows a sort of automatic and unconscious overlap of various consolidated interpretation schemes to what the sources literally say, as when it continues to propose topics of the alleged isolation and peripherality of the Island that were thought to be outdated.