Comunità monastiche italo-greche in Sardegna. Una questione ancora aperta
Rossana Martorelli
2018-01-01
Abstract
Historical and archaeological sources about groups of monks coming from Greek-Italian areas to Sardinia are very few. Perhaps it is due to a precise will of the Giudici (local governors or kings) to remove the byzantine heritage. In the 11th Century, when Sardinia became independent from the Eastern empire, the same Giudici looked for having a sort of legitimacy of their power by the Roman Church. In contrast to the other areas which took part of the byzantine empire (Southern Italy and Sicily) in Sardinia the new kings seem to have chosen only the monasticism of the Benedictines of the Cassino monastery. Some written sources let us know that monks speaking Greek language settled or passed through the Sardinia in the Early Middle Age, at least at Carales. Moreover some information come indirectly from the passiones related to the most important shrines of St. Antioco and St. Efisio. They suggest that little groups of monks from Egypt or Turkey took care of these churches. In the same period some rural sites, above all caves, are thought to be used or re-used by monks from eastern countries of the empire. Sometimes they had been used since pre-historical times as burial or worship places and in the middle age they were adapted as little rocky churches. The remains of the pictures on their walls are the most important and clear evidence.File | Size | Format | |
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