24331 - History of Medieval and Modern Law (A-C)

Learning outcomes

Knowledge of Italian and European legal history through the triple itinerary of sources, legal thought, and doctrine.

Course contents

1.

The aim is to enable the student to understand the design of the European legal history by developing a critical approach.

The right as a piece of the culture of its time will be contextualized in the different phases of European history, highlighting its perennial need to read the practice as a social science according to the - always different - tools proper to it.

The course will cover the medieval age and the first two centuries of the modern age, postponing - for its completion - to the course of history of modern and contemporary law.

 

2.

THE FOUNDATIONS OF PATRIARCHAL CULTURE (the Bible;

Ancient Greece; Roman law; Christianity; Germanism; Islam)

THE EUROPEAN PATRIARCHY, SUBJECT AND SUBJECT OF RULES AND CULTURE (medieval science of the father of the family; the Father/Prince analogy; humanistic/Renaissance thought; Protestantism; patria potestà between ius commune and popular rights)

THE TRADITIONALIST UTOPIA (traditionalism and patria potestà; Louis De Bonald; Antonio Rosmini; Luigi Taparelli D'Azeglio; problems of reform in pre-unification Italian legal culture; the Austro-Estense Duchy as a cultural laboratory; Kant and Hegel)

THE REVOLUTION AND PATERN POWERS (from John Locke to Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Diderot and Goldoni; Cesare Beccaria; Enlightenment polemic; Revolution and the overthrow of paternal tyranny; Institut de France contests on patria potestà; Napoleonic normalization; the Austrian model; pre-unitary Italian states)

CORRECTIONAL POWER AND MATRIMONY OF THE SONS (in France between Revolution and Bonapartism; in Austria; in the Restoration; in preunitary Italy)

ON THE THRESHOLD OF CONTEMPORARITY (Twentieth century: the century of the child and the father-family state; between private and public law: Antonio Cicu; fascism and the family; Vichy France; communism; the Slavic zadruga and the Albanian kanun)

 

3.

The fall of Constantinople, as a watershed between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age, with the Turkish victory; the clash and attempts to reconcile Islamic religious-legal universalism with Christian universalism.

 

Readings/Bibliography

Attendants Students

1. AA.VV., Tempi del diritto. Età medievale, moderna, contemporanea, Torino, Giappichelli Editore, edition 3, chapt. I-IV

2. M. Cavina, Lineamenti dei poteri paterni nella storia del patriarcato europeo, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2016

3. M. Cavina, Maometto Papa e Imperatore, Roma-Bari, Laterza Edit., 2018 (170pp.)

 

No Attendants Students

1. AA.VV., Tempi del diritto. Età medievale, moderna, contemporanea, Torino, Giappichelli Editore, 2018, new edition in press, chapt. I-IV

2. M. Cavina, Lineamenti dei poteri paterni nella storia del patriarcato europeo, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2016 

3. M. Cavina, Maometto Papa e Imperatore, Roma-Bari, Laterza Edit., 2018 [ediz. economica 2021]

 

2 crediti: M. Cavina, Maometto Papa e Imperatore, Roma-Bari, Laterza Edit., 2018 [ediz. economica 2021]

4 crediti: M. Cavina, Lineamenti dei poteri paterni nella storia del patriarcato europeo, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2016

Teaching methods

The oral lessons will be held in the II semester. Moments of deepening and discussion.

The following criteria will be used to assign the final mark (that will be out of 30/30):

- knowledge of a very limited number of topics, extensive support by the interviewer to address and answer the questions, basic yet appropriate language à 18-19;

- knowledge of a limited number of topics, ability to autonomously address basic legal problems, use of appropriate language → 20-24;

- comprehensive knowledge of the programme, ability to autonomously and critically analyse legal problems, use of specific terminology → 25-29;

- extensive knowledge of the programme, ability to reason autonomously and critically analyse legal problems, make connections between the topics, ability to master the specific terminology and ability to present legal arguments. → 30-30L

Assessment methods

The exam is oral. For attending students an optional 'test' is possible at the end of the course, and also an optional little 'personal research', whose score will supplement the profit rating.

Teaching tools

Slides

Office hours

See the website of Marco Cavina