Università Roma Tre

The course aims at illustrating, through a critical approach, the long journey of European and Western legal history between the Late Antique and the Modern Period. Starting from a description of the social, political and economic context, the legal institutions will be analyzed in their historical dimension, focusing the attention on legislation, on jurisprudence, and on the effects they had on case law.
The lessons will be divided into two modules: 1) Middle Ages (3rd-15th cent.) and 2) Modern Era (16th-19th cent.). This chronological subdivision is justified by the elements of novelty that marked the transition from one era to another. Sometimes these are purely juridical elements, more often events of a social, economic or religious nature produced decisive repercussions on the world of law.