Politics and Justice in Late Medieval Bologna

by Sarah R. Blanshei

2010 · BRILL

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.

Rendiconto delle sessioni della R. Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna. Classe di scienze morali

by R. Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna. Classe di scienze morali

1914

List of members in each volume.

The King's Body

by Sergio Bertelli, R. Burr Litchfield

2010 · Penn State Press

The King's Body offers a unique and up-to-date overview of a central theme in European history: the nature and meaning of the sacred rituals of kingship. Informed by the work of recent cultural anthropologists, Sergio Bertelli explores the cult of kingship, which pervaded the lives of hundreds of thousands of subjects, poor and rich, noble and cleric. His analysis takes in a wide spectrum, from the Vandal kings of Spain and the long-haired kings of France, to the beheaded kings of England and France, Charles I and Louis XVI. Bertelli explores the multiple meanings of the rites related to the king's body, from his birth (with the exhibition of his masculinity) to the crowning (a rebirth) to his death (a triumph and an apotheosis). We see how particular occasions such as entrances, processions, and banquets make sense only as they related directly to the king's body. Bertelli also singles out crowd-participatory aspects of sacred kingship, including the rites of violence connected with the interregnum (perceived as a suspension of the law) and the rites of expulsion for a tyrant's body, emphasizing the inversion of crowning rituals. First published in Italy in 1990, The King's Body has been revised and updated for English-speaking readers and expertly translated from the Italian by R. Burr Litchfield. Deftly argued and amply illustrated, this book is a perfect introduction to the cult of kingship in the West; at the same time, it illuminates for modern readers how strangely different the medieval and early modern world was from our own.

Angelus Pacis

by Blake R. Beattie

2007 · BRILL

This volume examines a largely overlooked Avignonese legation to Tuscany and the Papal States, and assesses its impact on Avignonese papal policy in Italy.

Elite Masculinity and Warfare in Cisalpine Gaul, c. 400-50 BCE

by Alastair R. Lumsden

2025 · Taylor & Francis

This volume explores the relationship between how elite masculinity was expressed and warfare in Cisalpine Gaul between c. 400-50 BC.

Medicine Before the Plague

by Michael Rogers McVaugh, Michael R. McVaugh

2002 · Cambridge University Press

An account of the medical world in eastern Spain in the decades before the Black Death.