Università Roma Tre

The course aims to investigate the complex transition from the ancient to the medieval world with the aim of recognizing in this historical phase the emergence of the basic legal structures on which the juridical life of modern Europe has developed - and diversified. .
The lessons will be articulated according to different thematic nodes (modules) in order to favor a "multi-sided" understanding of the period. Particular attention will be paid to the moments of "rupture" and those of "continuity" that have characterized these centuries.
The course will be supplemented by a module of 6/8 hours of lessons (most of which held by a professor from the University of Edinburgh) dedicated to the oldest Anglo-Saxon law (7th-10th century) and the birth of British common law since from the arrival of the Normans on the Island (XI-XV century).
The course will therefore proceed following a logical path articulated as follows:

Introduction.
1. module - The empire between reforms and revolutions (284-410). The global dimension
2. module - Christianity from persecution to marriage with the empire. A right for the societas christianorum
3. module - The barbarians and the formation of the Roman-barbarian kingdoms between crisis and continuity. The problems of integration and the different solutions
4. module - The case of Britannia: from Roman province to constitutional monarchy.
5. module - Legal culture: preserving and transmitting, adapting and renewing.

L. Loschiavo, Il diritto nell’età del passaggio. All’alba del diritto comune europeo (secoli III-VIII), Giappichelli ed., Torino