Politics and Justice in Late Medieval Bologna (Medieval Law and Its Practice)

Blanshei, Sarah Rubin

Brill Academic Pub（2010/05発売）

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製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 671 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9789004182851
DDC分類 364.94541109024

Full Description

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.

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