HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LAW D - L

Lectures, slides, workshops, judgements' analisys, mooting. Taking into account the situation linked to the COVID-19 emergency, the necessary changes with respect to what was previously stated may be introduced, in order to respect the program envisaged and reported in the Syllabus, with the provision of lessons to be held in mixed or remote mode.

Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it.

The course is designed to provide the indispensable historical-juridical knowledge to future jurists and to refine their logical-argumentative abilities. During the course of the lessons the fundamental passages of the European juridical history from the Middle Ages to the modern age will be analyzed: the role and the function that the law has carried out on the formation of the main political organizations of the time; the high-medieval legal systems and the role of custom; the rediscovery of Roman law; the origins of legal science; the study of law in medieval universities; the function of the Church and the importance of medieval canon law; training and development of the main legal institutions; the history of justice and civil and criminal trials; the function of jurists in the creation of law and the main schools of legal thought from the Middle Ages to the modern age; the theoretical premises of codification.

M. Bellomo, Società e istituzioni dal medioevo agli inizi dell'età moderna, Euno edizioni 2019, p. 450.

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