The Relationship between City and Country in the Light of Statutory Law

Gian Paolo Giuseppe Scharf

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-156-7

The Relationship between City and Country in the Light of Statutory Law: a Comparison between the Church State, Tuscany and Abruzzo (12th-16th centuries)

Authors

Gian Paolo Giuseppe Scharf

University of Bergamo

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2138-1140

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-156-7

Keywords:

Papal State, Statutes, Late Middle Age, Tuscany, Abruzzo, City-countryside

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Clio. Essays in History, Archaeology and Art History

Pages: 221

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-28947

Abstract: During late Middle Ages the space corresponding to Papal State showed some features similar to those of Central-Northern Italy, sharing others with the Southern Kingdom. This interesting mix can be tested observing statutory law, that, regarding this period, has abundantly survived, although revealing remarkable regional differences. The interplay between cities and villages in this situation is complicated by Papal power, which participates in that relationship, affecting it with a varying intensity and continuity. In this book we try to specify the “three parts game” that happened during the legislative process, considering also other players action, such rural lords. The work includes four essays about the four lands forming the Papal State and other three about nearer lands, i.e. Florentine Tuscany, Siennese one and the Sicilian Kingdom (reserving a special attention at Abruzzo), and suggests useful comparisons, one of the project paramount aims. The scholars invited to join the enterprise, each specialist of a single land, during their research considered other’s results, notwithstanding the physical distance among each other. Thus, we try to offer a homogeneous picture, at least regarding powers interplay dynamics.

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Author Biography

Gian Paolo Giuseppe Scharf, University of Bergamo

Gian Paolo Giuseppe Scharf born in Bergamo in 1968; graduated in medieval history in 1997 from Milan university, he obtained his PhD in History during 2002 from Perugia university. From 1994 on, he carried out research activities, especially about late medieval institutional history. He wrote more than a hundred pubblications. Between 2007 and 2019 he worked in the International Research Center for Local Histories and Cultural Diversities from the Insubria university as a scientific technician. From 2019 on he worked as librarian in the Bergamo university.