Politics and Justice in Late Medieval Bologna

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18285-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 672 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 1105 g

Reihe: Medieval Law and Its Practice

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.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in legal and social history, medieval history, prosopography, and the history of the Italian commune.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blanshei, Sarah R

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.