- Docente: Alessia Legnani Annichini
- Credits: 8
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 9232)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the lessons the student
- knows the political institutions, the legal roots, the jurisprudence, the legal science which characterize the history of Western Continental Europe from Late Middle Age to Modern Age
- knows the importance of the historical approach to the legal phenomenous, in order to become a conscoius member of the community of jurists
Course contents
General part
The Germans entered in the Empire - Justinian's Law, its reception in Italy and its tradition in the High Middle Age - The Longobard Reign - The Holy Roman Empire - The fief and feudal law - The difficult relationships between Church and Empire in the XIth century: Renovatio Imperii and Gregorian Reform - The preirnerian schools: Pavia, Roma and Ravenna, Pepo - The Alma Mater and the other schools of Law during the period of glossators - The postaccursian Age - The canon law: from Gratian to Corpus Iuris Canonici - Decretists and decretalists - The dialectics ius commune - iura propria - The School of Comment - Doctrinal and jurisprudential itineraries in the age of the late ius commune: mos italicus iura docendi and mos gallicus iura docendi - Law in the cultures of the Ancient Regime.
Special part
The merchant in the Middle Age - Origins and natures of ius mercatorum - The development of ius mercatorum in the Modern Age - Bankruptcy between ancient regime and commercial codifications - First societies between merchants - A .... of the trade: the mediator
Readings/Bibliography
1) AA.VV., Tempi del diritto. Età medievale, moderna, contemporanea, Torino 2016, le sole parti I, II, III, IV (until p. 200)
2) U. Santarelli, Mercanti e società tra mercanti, Torino, Giappichelli, 1998.
3) N. Sarti, Scuole, Studium, Ateneo. I primi nove secoli dell'Università di Bologna, Bologna 2018
Erasmus
Foreign students that are partecipating in the Socrates-Erasmus program should prepare their oral examination reading M. Bellomo, L'Europa del diritto comune, nuova edizione.
Integrating exams which students who have moved from other Courses
The programme for integrating exams which students who have moved from other Courses needd to take is planned with each individual student on the basis of the programme completed and on the CFU necessary.
Teaching methods
The lessons will start in the second part of academic year.
Studenst will be allowed to afford the examination from summer session.
Assessment methods
The final examination will be oral and it is going to certifie that the student
- knows the history of political institutions, of legal roots, of jurisprudence, of legal science from Late Middle Age to Modern Age
- knows the importance of an historical background in the knowledgement of nowdays jurists
The thesis
The thesis, intended for a detailed study of institutes, people and precise moments from juridical medieval and modern history, will be assigned to those students who show a clear interest in the historical-juridical educational path.
Requests from those students who decline to dedicate the necessary time to make thesis elaboration a constructive experience will not be accepted.
Teaching tools
The course is completely supported by Microsoft Powerpoint.
Seminars will be announced in time in the course of the lessons, if prevented.
Office hours
See the website of Alessia Legnani Annichini