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The Barratry of the Shipmaster in Early Modern Law: The Approach of Italian and English Law Courts
2019
Summary For a long time, the concept of barratry (at least in its maritime meaning) was one and the same on both sides of the Channel. The barratry of the shipmaster was part of the mercantile usages, and it identified the intentionally blameworthy conduct of the master. When law courts began to decide on insurance litigation they were confronted with a notion quite alien to them. Broadly speaking, the shipmaster’s barratry could well be considered a fraud of sort. But in order to decide on its occurrence in a specific case, law courts had to analyse it in legal terms, and so according to the specific legal categories of their own system. The point ceases to be trivially obvious if we think…
Diritto e storia: intervista a Raimondo Santoro
2022
Further to being interviewed by Mario Varvaro, Raimondo Santoro introduces his ideas regarding the methodology of scientific research in the field of Roman law. This methodology takes into account a detailed investigation of sources and its close relationship with other historical disciplines, in which the technical nature of the legal point of view cannot be neglected. Santoro identifies the concept of law from the viewpoint of ‘legal experience’, which results from the ‘action’ and consists of development from the past to the present towards the future. He underlines the importance of historiography and the historical relativity of numerous dogmatic approaches. The interview concludes wit…
Il legato pontificio tra norma, dottrina e prassi (sec. V-XII): il caso della Sicilia e la questione dell’Apostolica Legazia
2022
Sin dall'Alto Medioevo, il papa inviò delegati papali in Sicilia per amministrare la chiesa locale. Con l'arrivo dei Normanni nell'XI secolo, l'invio dei legati apostolici fu fortemente osteggiato dal potere secolare. Per questo motivo, le sfere di competenza tra il papa e i normanni furono definite da accordi e concessioni reciproche: il punto di partenza fu il rilascio del privilegio dell'Apostolica Legazia (1098). La prima parte della tesi analizza la natura e le funzioni dei delegati papali inviati in Sicilia nell'Alto Medioevo. La seconda parte si concentra sullo studio degli atti giuridici che delimitarono i poteri del papato e dei normanni sulla chiesa locale. Since the early Middle …
Religion, Ideology, Politics, and Law. A Multidisciplinary Approach in the Frame of European History
2022
I vescovati nella Sicilia normanna (secc. XI-XIII). Potestà normative e competenze giurisdizionali in un territorio multiculturale
2022
In Sicilia, durante l’età normanna (1060-1194), la progressiva costruzione di un rinnovato apparato politico-istituzionale, cominciata a partire dalla conquista dell’isola, si svolse in parallelo con la ricostituzione dei distretti diocesani, definitivamente scomparsi a seguito del plurisecolare dominio musulmano. Questa monografia racchiude i risultati di una ricerca condotta con l’obiettivo di analizzare complessivamente le fonti superstiti relative ai vescovati siciliani, a partire dalla fine dell’XI secolo sino alle soglie del mutamento dinastico che sancì l’avvento dell’età sveva. Nonostante la disomogeneità dei dati a disposizione, emerge come nel corso di poco più di un secolo, il ru…
Donne e codici nell’Italia preunitaria
2023
Spousal power in the codes and nineteenth-century legal reflection - (Mutual?) rights and duties - The debate on coercive measures to protect the "conjugal home" - Marital incapacity - (In)equal spouses: separation in French and Bourbonic codification.
La costruzione del genere nel diritto medievale: norme e dottrina
2022
Since the 12th century, the legal status of women has been one of the most complex problems. The general principle provides a clear division: women cannot do what men are allowed to do. But both jurists and laws have to deal with exceptions and identify particular categories of women or particular situations for which the general principle falls by contingent necessity. This essay investigates the legal origin of the gender distinction in medieval law and the contribution of canonical doctrine. Through the juridicization of scriptural and patristic sources, and canons and decretals, canon law sets some milestones in the construction of women's legal identity and creates the grid of prohibit…
Ordinatio ad Casum: Legal Causation in Italy, 14th-17th centuries
2023
The book examines the development of legal causation in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, focusing especially on practice-oriented literature (decisiones and consilia). Causality began to be discussed from the late thirteenth century and especially during the first half of the fourteenth, when it was described as ordinatio. In private law, ordinatio remained the standard approach to causation during the entire early modern period: centuries of legal practice mainly refined its scope but did not change its core. By contrast, its application in criminal law would increasingly clash with the intentionality requirement, and so it was progressively challenged.
Exceptional women: Female merchants and working women in Italy in the early modern period
2018
The chapter examines the juridical construction of working woman in Italian cities during the medieval to modern period. In fact, the world of work and production had been generally thought by medieval and early modern jurists to be a sphere best left to self-regulation by the interested parties, an autonomous field, if not quite extraneous to the grand systems of Roman and canon law. But many regulatory and legal sources demonstrate the relevance of merchant and working women in the economic system. This sources concern three items, regarding female work and family roles: female membership and activities in the Italian guilds; women’s property and capability to act; the relationship betwee…