24331 - History of Medieval and Modern Law (M-Q)

Learning outcomes

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"Knowledge of Italian and European legal history through the threefold path of sources, legal thought, and scholarly doctrine."

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Course contents

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Course Description – History of Legal Culture

The course focuses on the history of legal culture, with particular attention to the historical evolution of powers and duties within the family. Its objective is to equip students with the tools to understand the broader framework of European legal history, fostering the development of a critical approach to the subject.

1. General Part

Law, as an integral component of the culture of its time, will be contextualized within European history. The course will cover the period from the 11th to the 17th century, and its continuation is offered through the course in Modern and Contemporary Legal History.

The topics addressed in the general section of the course correspond to the first four chapters of the textbook Tempi del diritto. Core areas of study include:

• Irnerius and the scientific codification of law

• The school of the Glossators and its methods of scholarly production

• The rise of the university

• The development of canon law as a legal science

• Particular legal systems created by states and cities in Western Europe

• The system of ius commune

• Ius commune as the jurists’ law, from Accursius to the school of Commentators

• Legal Humanism and its scientific methods

• The Dutch Elegant School and the German Usus modernus pandectarum

• From the School of Salamanca to Hugo Grotius

• The concept of law from the Middle Ages to the early modern period

• The anti-jurisprudential ideology

• The jurist’s/justice’s responsa

• Major courts and the judgments of jurist-judges

• Courts and jurisdictions in ancien régime cities

• Legal culture in seventeenth-century Italy

• Neo-Humanism between the 17th and 18th centuries

• The "deficiencies of jurisprudence" according to reformist jurists between the 17th and 18th centuries

2. Special Part

The special section of the course—corresponding to the text Lineamenti dei poteri paterni—delves into the historical development of the ius corrigendi in medieval and modern legal traditions.

THE FOUNDATIONS OF PATRIARCHAL CULTURE
(The Bible; Ancient Greece; Roman law; Christianity; Germanic law; Islam)

THE EUROPEAN PATRIARCHATE AS OBJECT AND SUBJECT OF LAW AND CULTURE
(Medieval legal science on the paterfamilias; the Father/Prince analogy; humanistic and Renaissance thought; Protestantism; patria potestas between ius commune and local customary laws)

THE TRADITIONALIST UTOPIA
(Traditionalism and patria potestas; Louis de Bonald; Antonio Rosmini; Luigi Taparelli d’Azeglio; reform issues in pre-unification Italian legal culture; the Austro-Este Duchy as a cultural laboratory; Kant and Hegel)

REVOLUTION AND PATERNAL AUTHORITY
(From John Locke to Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Diderot and Goldoni; Cesare Beccaria; the Enlightenment critique; the Revolution and the fall of paternal tyranny; the Institut de France competitions on patria potestas; Napoleonic normalization; the Austrian model; pre-unification Italian states)

CORRECTIONAL POWER AND CHILDREN’S MARRIAGE
(In France between the Revolution and the Napoleonic era; in Austria; during the Restoration; in pre-unification Italy)

ON THE THRESHOLD OF MODERNITY
(The 20th century as the age of the child and the state-as-paterfamilias; between private and public law: Antonio Cicu; Fascism and the family; Vichy France; Communism; the Slavic zadruga and the Albanian kanun)

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Readings/Bibliography

1) Attending class students

For the class participating students the examination will be related to the topics treated during the lessons. For the exam preparation, the notes taken during classes will be sufficient.

In order to track class presence, the modality will be communicated directly during the lesson session.

2) NON attending class students

For the students not participating classes, the examination program will relate to the following text books:

General Part

1) AA.VV., Tempi del diritto. Età medievale, moderna, contemporanea, Torino 2022, capitoli I-V.

Specific

2) M. Cavina, Lineamenti dei poteri paterni nella storia del patriarcato europeo, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2016

3) M. Cavina, Ai confini del problema criminale, II edizione, Bologna, BUP, 2022 [the following chapters: - La bilancia e la spada; Ippolito Marsili e le origini bolognesi dell’insegnamento criminalistico; - Garantismo e tortura. Intorno alle dinamiche della cultura d’Antico regime; - Crimini imposti. Il mandatum superioris fra teologi e giuristi (sec. XVI-XVIII); - Funzioni della pena bassomedievale; - La scienza dell’onore, il duello e la vendetta. Il disagio della trattatistica; - De legibus et moribus amantium. Antropologia giudiziaria dell’amore aristocratico fra André le Chapelain e Benoît Court (sec. XII-XVI); - De praeda militari. La variabile geometria della illiceità del saccheggio nella cultura giuridica fra Medioevo ed età moderna; - Mito e realtà della caccia alle streghe nell’Europa moderna; - Una fama diabolica. Profili del problema probatorio nel processo di stregoneria; - La prova mistica dell’acqua fredda. Diritto tradizionale, diritto dotto e stregoneria (secc. XVI-XVII)]

Erasmus

Foreign sudents not attending classes that are participating in the Socrates-Erasmus program can take the exam by establishing a special program with the prof. Damigela Hoxha.

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

Teaching will be developed into frontal classes in which it will be discussed the systematic presentation of the topics covered by the Course.

During the lessons will be discuss normative and doctrinal sources for the relevant period.

Assessment methods

The profit exam will take place in oral form. The test will focus on the topics indicated in the "Program and contents" section and the student must demonstrate to acquire knowledge of using critically historical skills, also into approach at issues of positive law and for the understanding of current assets of political Italian and European institutions.

The evaluation of the test will be carried out taking into consideration

• the knowledge of the course contents
• the ability to make connections between the different parts of the program
• the ability to develop critical arguments
• the articulation and accuracy of the exposure
  

The assignment of the final grade will be guided by the following criteria:


1. Preparation on a very limited number of topics covered in the course and ability to analyze emerging only with the help of the lecturer, expression in overall correct language → 18-19;

2. Preparation on a limited number of topics covered in the course and ability to analyze independently only on purely executive issues, expression in correct language → 20-24;

3. Preparation on a large number of topics covered in the course, ability to make independent choices of critical analysis, mastery of specific terminology → 25-29;

4. Substantially exhaustive preparation on the topics covered in the course, ability to make independent choices of critical analysis and linking, full mastery of specific terminology and ability to argue and self-reflect → 30-30L.

Teaching tools

In order to have a better preparation it is recommended to download the teaching material that will be made available on the website of the course owner.

Any seminars will be promptly reported in the lessons.

The lessons will be kept using notes and projected material, all made available to the students (http://campus.cib.unibo.it [http://campus.cib.unibo.it/] )

 

Students with learning disorders and\or temporary or permanent disabilities: please, contact the office responsible (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students ) as soon as possible so that they can propose acceptable adjustments. The request for adaptation must be submitted in advance (15 days before the exam date) to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of the adjustments, taking into account the teaching objectives.

Office hours

See the website of Damigela Hoxha