| Description |
1 online resource ([ix], 671 pages) : map |
| Series |
Medieval law and its practice ; v. 7 |
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Medieval law and its practice ; v. 7.
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| Contents |
Cover13; -- Contents -- List of Tables -- A Note on Usage -- Introduction -- I. Part I. Politics of Closure: Setting the Boundaries -- Part II. Prosecuting the Excluded -- II. Oligarchy: Councils of the Commune -- III. Oligarchy: Councils of the Popolo -- IV. Part I. Status: Legal Definitions -- Part II. Perceptions of Identity and Proofs of Status -- 1. Lambertazzi -- 2. Fumantes -- 3. Magnates: The List of 1294 -- 4. Identification of Magnates: Habitus -- 5. Ancestry vs. Lifestyle -- 6. Urban Magnates and Knighthood -- 7. Lifestyle as Proof of Status -- 8. Other Proofs of Status -- 9. Politics vs. Hereditary Status -- 10. Magnate Identity Trials as a Tool of Conflict -- 11. Political Profiles -- 12. The Debate on Nobility -- 13. Status and Society -- V. The Politicization of Criminal Justice -- 1. Equality -- 2. Torture -- 3. Due Process -- 4. Captured Banniti -- 5. Protestacio -- 6. Privilege -- 7. Querele and Summary Justice -- 8. Petitions as Predecessors to the Querela -- 9. Legislation of 1313 -- 10. The New Querela of 1320 -- 11. Expansion of Summary Justice: Its Significance -- 12. Implementation of the Querela -- 13. Suspension of Due Process: Resistance by the Judges -- Epilogue -- Map of Bologna -- Appendices -- A. Jurisdictions of the Courts of the Capitano del Popolo -- B. Table for Chapter One -- C. Table for Chapter Two -- D. Tables for Chapter Three -- E. Tables for Chapter Four -- F. Tables for Chapter Five -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This book is the first to investigate the practice of summary justice in a late medieval Italian commune. In delineating the political and social context of that development in late medieval Bologna, it also is the first to study the phenomenon of oligarchy not only at the level of the executive body of a commune, but also in the broader councils of commune and popolo, as well as among the ranks of the enfranchised political class. The dominant popolo party constructed itself through multiple forms of exclusion that deeply affected the administration of justice and led to the rise of new institutions of judicial appeal and equity. Exclusion also led to shifting concepts of the legal status and perceptions of social identity of insider and outsider, of popolano and magnate, as revealed in the testimony of witnesses in trial records. Bologna's rich archival sources make it possible to bring a new perspective to key issues in legal and social history. -- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 641-653) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Law -- Italy -- Bologna -- History
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Law, Medieval.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Political aspects -- Italy -- Bologna -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Political aspects
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Law
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Law, Medieval
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Italy -- Bologna
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004189430 |
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9004189432 |
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9789004182851 |
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9004182853 |
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1282786784 |
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9781282786783 |
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