Jurists and jurisprudence in medieval Italy : texts and contexts / Osvaldo Cavallar, Julius Kirshner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cavallar, Osvaldo, author.

Kirshner, Julius, author.

Series:

Toronto Studies in Medieval Law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Common law--History--Sources--Italy--To 1500.

Common law.

Jurisprudence--History--Sources--Italy--To 1500.

Jurisprudence.

Law--Sources--Italy--To 1500.

Law.

Italy.

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (896 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; Buffalo, New York ; London, England : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Jurists and Jurisprudence in Medieval Italy is an original collection of texts exemplifying medieval Italian jurisprudence, known as the ius commune. Translated for the first time into English, many of the texts exist only in early printed editions and manuscripts. Featuring commentaries by leading medieval civil law jurists, notably Azo Portius, Accursius, Albertus Gandinus, Bartolus of Sassoferrato, and Baldus de Ubaldis, this book covers a wide range of topics, including how to teach and study law, the production of legal texts, the ethical norms guiding practitioners, civil and criminal procedures, and family matters. The translations, together with context-setting introductions, highlight fundamental legal concepts and practices and the milieu in which jurists operated. They offer entry points for exploring perennial subjects, such as the professionalization of lawyers, the tangled relationship between law and morality, the role of gender in the socio-legal order, and the extent to which the ius commune can be considered an autonomous system of law."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Short Titles

Introduction

1. Professors and Students

1. Foundations

1.1. The Constitution Habita of Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa (1155/58)

1.2. Accursius's Glosses to the Constitution Habita

1.3. Students as Citizens in the Statutes of Modena (1327)

2. "We Give You the Licence to Teach Here and Everywhere"

2.1. Baldus de Ubaldis, Consilium on the Studium Generale of Milan (ca. 1393−1396)

3. Privileges of Doctors and Students

3.1. Simon of Borsano, Privileges of Doctors and Students (1361−1370)

4. How to Teach and Study Canon and Civil Law

4.1. Franciscus de Zabarellis, How to Teach and Study Canon and Civil Law (ca. 1410)

5. The Many Dwelling Places of Civil Wisdom

5.1. Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Oration on Conferring the Doctorate of Law

6. Death Benefits

6.1. Consilium of Jacobus Niccoli (1400)

7. Hired Hands

7.1. Azo, Hiring (1208−1210)

7.2. Rainerius of Perugia, Leasing out a Work to Be Copied (1242)

7.3. Salatiele, Copyists, and Other Persons Obligating Themselves to Perform Services [Contract and Glosses] (1248−1254)

7.4. Rolandinus de Passegeriis, Hiring Another Person's Services to Copy a Work (1273)

8. Law Students' Books

8.1. Baldus de Ubaldis, Consilium [I] (ca. 1393-1396)

8.2. Baldus de Ubaldis, Consilium [II] (ca. 1393-1396)

9. "Many Books"

9.1. Oldradus de Ponte, Whether It Is Advantageous to Have Many Books (ca. 1320s)

10. Nobility, Usefulness, and Origin of Law

10.1. Doctoral Oration (ca. 1450)

2. Legal Profession

11. Advocates

11.1. Guilelmus Durantis, Mirror of Law (ca. 1284−1289)

12. Fees

12.1. Azo, Quaestio disputata

13. Proof of a Doctoral Degree

13.1. Certifying a Judge's Doctoral Degree in Florence (1374)

14. Bella Figura: Florentine Jurists and Their Wives

14.1. Deliberation of the Guild of Judges and Notaries of Florence (9 Sept. 1366)

14.2. Provisions of Florence's Sumptuary Laws, 1377 and 1388

14.3. Stephanus de Bonacursis and Others, Consilium on the Exemption of Jurists and Their Wives from Florence's Sumptuary Laws (1390)

15. A Waste of Time

15.1. Franco Sacchetti, Novella XL (ca. 1392−1393)

16. "From the Mouth of God"

16.1. Eulogy of Marianus Socinus the Elder of Siena (1467)

3. Civil and Criminal Procedure

17. Civil Procedure

17.1. Civil Procedure in the Statutes of Florence (1415)

18. Consilium Sapientis

18.1. Requesting a consilium sapientis, Statutes of Florence (1415)

19. Witnesses

19.1. Treatise on Witnesses (Scientiam) (ca. 1230s)

20. False Testimony

20.1. Franciscus de Guicciardinis, Consilium (ca. 1505−1516)

21. Criminal Procedure

21.1. Albertus Gandinus, Tract on Crimes (1300)

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4875-3634-8

1-4875-3633-X

OCLC:

1163793954