Università Roma Tre

Medieval and modern Legal History II

Prof. Luca Loschiavo

Program academic year 2018/2019

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 regulatory 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 given to the moments of 'breaking' and those of 'continuity' that have characterized these centuries.

The course will therefore proceed following a logical path as follows:

Introduction.
1. module - The empire between reforms and revolutions (284-410). The global dimension
2. module - Christianity from persecutions to the 'marriage' with the empire. A right for the societas christianorum
3. module - The barbarians and the formation of the Roman-barbarian reigns between crisis and continuity. The problems of integration and the different solutions
4. module - Legal culture: preserving and transmitting, adapting and renewing. The Justinian texts in the early Middle Ages: the Codex and Novellae cases.

studenti frequentanti :

- L. Loschiavo, Il diritto nell’età del passaggio. All’alba del diritto comune europeo (secoli III-VIII), Giappichelli ed., 2a ediz., Torino 2019
- Material provided by the teacher in class

not-attending students :

- L. Loschiavo, Il diritto nell’età del passaggio. All’alba del diritto comune europeo (secoli III-VIII), Giappichelli ed., 2a ediz., Torino 2019
- P.J. Geary, Il mito delle nazioni. Le origini medievali dell’Europa, Carocci ed., Roma 2017
- I. Wood, La trasformazione dell’Occidente romano e l’affermazione della chiesa nel primo medioevo, RomaTrE-press, Roma 2019 [this last volume will be distributed in paper format by the Efesto Library (via C. Segre, 11), but will be also available in electronic format in open access on the RomaTrE-press website within the 'Legal culture' series].