Politics and justice in late medieval Bologna /

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 bod...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Blanshei, Sarah Rubin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston, Mass. : Brill, 2010.
Colección:Medieval law and its practice ; v. 7.
Temas:
Law > Italy > Bologna > History.
Law, Medieval.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Political aspects > Italy > Bologna > History.
Droit > Italie > Bologne > Histoire.
Droit médiéval.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Political aspects.
Law.
Italy > Bologna.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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