Chapter L’impero, le libertates e la libertà
Abstract
The author analyzes mature medieval legal thought to highlight, around normative and jurisdictional freedoms, the affirmation of both a doctrine and a practice of the freedom to rule (of the potestas condendi statute) of which the empire constituted the sovereign guarantee of an order anchored to the idea of iurisdictio and the exercise of justice; the "pathologies" of power - the tyrannical degeneration or the evanescence of imperial authority - were therefore included in a Bartolo da Sassoferrato or in a Dante Alighieri (in his treatise on the empire) in the context of a vindication of the public character of freedom as a supreme legal good.
Keywords
Empire; Normative freedom; Jurisdictional freedom; Justice; Tyranny.DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0382-1.04ISBN
9791221503821, 9791221503821Publisher
Firenze University PressPublisher website
https://www.fupress.com/Publication date and place
Florence, 2024Series
Centro di Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo San Miniato, 16Classification
General and world history