Politics and Justice in Late Medieval Bologna
Seiten
2010
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-18285-1 (ISBN)
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-18285-1 (ISBN)
Utilizing a uniquely rich collection of trial records and council meeting minutes from late medieval Bologna, this book offers the first study of summary justice and oligarchy in an Italian commune, demonstrating how new legal institutions arose in response to the increasingly exclusionary policies of the popolo government.
This book is the first to investigate the practice of summary justice in a late medieval Italian commune. In delineating the political and social context of that development in late medieval Bologna, it also is the first to study the phenomenon of oligarchy not only at the level of the executive body of a commune, but also in the broader councils of commune and popolo, as well as among the ranks of the enfranchised political class. The dominant popolo party constructed itself through multiple forms of exclusion that deeply affected the administration of justice and led to the rise of new institutions of judicial appeal and equity. Exclusion also led to shifting concepts of the legal status and perceptions of social identity of insider and outsider, of popolano and magnate, as revealed in the testimony of witnesses in trial records. Bologna's rich archival sources make it possible to bring a new perspective to key issues in legal and social history.
This book is the first to investigate the practice of summary justice in a late medieval Italian commune. In delineating the political and social context of that development in late medieval Bologna, it also is the first to study the phenomenon of oligarchy not only at the level of the executive body of a commune, but also in the broader councils of commune and popolo, as well as among the ranks of the enfranchised political class. The dominant popolo party constructed itself through multiple forms of exclusion that deeply affected the administration of justice and led to the rise of new institutions of judicial appeal and equity. Exclusion also led to shifting concepts of the legal status and perceptions of social identity of insider and outsider, of popolano and magnate, as revealed in the testimony of witnesses in trial records. Bologna's rich archival sources make it possible to bring a new perspective to key issues in legal and social history.
Sarah R. Blanshei, Ph.D. (1971) in History, Bryn Mawr College, is Dean of the College and Professor of History emerita at Agnes Scott College. She has published a monograph on medieval Perugia and articles on criminal justice in late medieval Bologna and Perugia.
List of Tables
A Note on Usage
I.Part I. Politics of Closure: Setting the Boundaries
Part II. Prosecuting the Excluded
II.Oligarchy: Councils of the Commute
III.Oligarchy: Councils of the Popolo
IV.Part I. Status: Legal Definitions
Part II. Perceptions of Identity and Proofs of Status
V.The Politicization of Criminal Justice
Epilogue
Maps of Bologna
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 10.5.2010 |
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Reihe/Serie | Medieval Law and Its Practice ; 7 |
Verlagsort | Leiden |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 1170 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 90-04-18285-3 / 9004182853 |
ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-18285-1 / 9789004182851 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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