Università Roma Tre

The purpose of this course aims to depict the role of the Medieval Church in the formation of Ius Commune in Europe and to examine the intertwinement of ecclesiastical categories with those of Roman Law and of Iura propria. More specifically, the contribution of Canon Law to the formation of the modern European Law will be examined from the administrative and economic points of view.

Attending students will deepen each topic examined progressively in the course of the lectures. For several topics covered in the course, the reference handbook will be as follows: Paolo Evangelisti, Il pensiero economico nel medioevo, Roma 2016.

Students not attending the course will be evaluated by written exam, consisting in a series of open-ended questions, on the following handbook:
E. Conte, Diritto comune. Storia e storiografia di un sistema dinamico, Bologna 2009 (the text is available in open access on academia.edu)