STORIA DELLE ISTITUZIONI POLITICHE DELL'ANTICHITA'

Frontal lessons, helped by new technologies for the reading of ancient documents.

The political and the constitutional history of Rome in the succession of its different phases (monarchy, republic, empire), with the particular attention to the institutional transition.

The monarchy. Etruscan reforms. Passing to the res publica.

Magistracy, people and senate assemblies.

Central and peripheral administrative organization. The government of the conquered territories in the Mediterranean: the provinces.

August and the genesis of the empire.

The nova officia and the birth of the imperial burocracy.

The Severe and the universalisempire.

The new attitude of the empire from Diocleziano to Costantino.

The Roman empire crisis.

The germanic sovereigns. The Theoderic protectorate.

Justinian dominance and the attempt to refound the empire.

During the lessons documents of different nature will be showed and discussed from which critical examination will produce elements of general reconstruction of context, general representation and political institutional functions in the relationship between power and citizens (or foreigners or slaves) and also with the other organs of the state.

O. Licandro – N. Palazzolo, Roma e le sue istituzioni politiche dalle origini a Giustiniano, Giappichelli Editore - Torino, 2019, pp. 1-507.

O. Licandro, L’irruzione del legislatore romano-germanico. Legge, consuetudine e giuristi
nella crisi dell’Occidente imperiale (V-VI sec. d.C.), Jovene Editore - Napoli 2015, pp. xxiii-151.

S. Mazzarino, La fine del mondo antico. Le cause della caduta dell’impero romano, Rizzoli Editore - Milano, 2002, pp. 1-195.

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