"The course has a specialized focus. It aims to present the western legal experience from XIIth until the end of XVIIIth century that has constituted the laboratory of ideas, categories and institutes pertaining to the European legal culture.
Focusing on specific topics and offering a direct contact with ancient texts, the course provides students with the understanding of the Ius commune, encourages student’s ability to read the legal sources and to use analytical tools, in order to identify the formation processes and development mechanisms of this legal reality."
Focusing on specific topics and offering a direct contact with ancient texts, the course provides students with the understanding of the Ius commune, encourages student’s ability to read the legal sources and to use analytical tools, in order to identify the formation processes and development mechanisms of this legal reality."
scheda docente
materiale didattico
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)
Programma
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.Testi Adottati
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)
Modalità Erogazione
Each topic will be analysed by the Professor through the reading of medieval and modern legal sources and the discussion of academical writings. Students will undertake research on specific issues concerning these topics and will present their findings to the class.Modalità Frequenza
During the course, attending students will take evaluation examinations on the individual topics covered in class.Modalità Valutazione
Students attending the course will be evaluated on the basis of the works presented to the class every fortnight. They must show to have performed a correct bibliographical research and to have examined legal sources according to reading techniques explained by the Professor. Non-attending students will be evaluated on the basis of a written examination consisting of a series of open-ended questions on the contents of the textbook.