Università Roma Tre

For the history of Medieval and Modern thought, law represents a very important key to understanding the making of power and institutions set up by the European societies. Through the study of the rules (ordinamenta), of the abstract thinking developed on them (legal treatises) and of the legislation and procedures practiced in law courts from the Middle Ages to the Modern World, the course aims at providing students with a perspective of medieval and modern legal-political thought.

Structure of the Course:

First section: vulgarization of classical legal culture during the centuries 4th- 6th as a consequence of the internal and external transformations of the Roman Empire; transition from a territorial to a personal concept of power, and therefore of law, during the centuries of meeting and clash of Roman and Barbarian cultures (centuries 5th-9th).

Second section: the Gregorian Reform and the search of legitimacy of the universalistic claims of Medieval Church and Empire (11th century);
the rediscovery of Roman Law in the background of the cultural and philosophical Renaissanche of the 12th and 13th century;
Medieval Scholastic culture and Humanist ideals: development of the Common Law in Europe towards the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Early Modern period (14th-16th century).

CORTESE E., LE GRANDI LINEE DELLA STORIA GIURIDICA MEDIEVALE, ROMA, IL CIGNO, 2000, O QUALSIASI ALTRA EDIZIONE SUCCESSIVA.