Il bosco in Sardegna nel Medioevo

Abstract

The population growth at the beginning of the new millennium determined even in Sardinia the colonisation of new territories and changes in the settlement. In this work the expansion of the agriculture as well as the exploitation of the woody-land have been studied by examining the ”condaghi”, the more ancient testimonies of Middle Ages, the late medieval statutory texts, and the literary sources. This work considers the most diffused crops in the island and analyses the growing of the woodland exploitation for cultivation, breeding, hunting and building-timber, as well as the protection of this resource. The policy of regulating the exploitation of the woody-land and the reforesting process which started in the XIV century have been studied by analysing the normative texts and the civic statutes.