TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blanshei,Sarah Rubin
TI  - Politics and justice in late medieval Bologna
T2  - Medieval law and its practice
SN  - 9789004189430
AV  - KKH9850 .B57 2010
U1  - 364.945/41109024 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Leiden, Boston, Mass.
PB  - Brill
KW  - Law
KW  - Italy
KW  - Bologna
KW  - History
KW  - Law, Medieval
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
KW  - Political aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [641]-653) and index; Preliminary Material; S.R. Blanshei --; Introduction; S.R. Blanshei --; Chapter One; S.R. Blanshei --; Chapter Two. Oligarchy: Councils Of The Commune; S.R. Blanshei --; Chapter Three. Oligarchy: Councils Of The Popolo; S.R. Blanshei --; Chapter Four; S.R. Blanshei --; Chapter Five. The Politicization Of Criminal Justice; S.R. Blanshei --; Epilogue; S.R. Blanshei --; Map Of Bologna; S.R. Blanshei --; Appendices; S.R. Blanshei --; Bibliography; S.R. Blanshei --; Index; S.R. Blanshei; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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 body of a commune, but also in the broader councils of commune and popolo, as well as among the ranks of the enfranchised political class. The dominant popolo party constructed itself through multiple forms of exclusion that deeply affected the administration of justice and led to the rise of new institutions of judicial appeal and equity. Exclusion also led to shifting concepts of the legal status and perceptions of social identity of insider and outsider, of popolano and magnate, as revealed in the testimony of witnesses in trial records. Bologna's rich archival sources make it possible to bring a new perspective to key issues in legal and social history
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004182851.i-671
ER  -