Unit HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LAW
- Course
- Legal services
- Study-unit Code
- A000753
- Curriculum
- Operatore giudiziario e della p.a.
- Teacher
- Eloisa Mura
- Teachers
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- Eloisa Mura
- Hours
- 42 ore - Eloisa Mura
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2025
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course aims to provide essential information and explain the fundamental passages of legal history from the Middle Ages to the early contemporary age.
- Reference texts
- A.A. Cassi, L’esperienza giuridica europea dal Medioevo all’Età Contemporanea, Giappichelli, Torino, 2024.
- Educational objectives
- By examining the transformations that law has undergone over time, the course aims to foster in the student an awareness of the evolution of each legal phenomenon in connection with social dynamics.
- Prerequisites
- To understand the topics covered in the course and achieve the learning objectives, the student must possess basic elements of general culture and essential knowledge of medieval, modern and contemporary history.
- Teaching methods
- Lessons and seminars.
- Other information
- Foreign students participating in the Erasmus project will be able to take the exam by agreeing a special program with the teacher.
For students with DSA, appropriate compensatory tools and specific measures will be agreed individually.
For any further information, students can contact the teacher: 1) in the Department during office hours; 2) by email by writing to the institutional email address of the teacher. - Learning verification modality
- Oral exam.
In order to evaluate the student’s preparation, the following will be taken into account: 1) the notions acquired about the historical periodization, the evolution and the contents of legal thought and institutions; 2) the ability of critical analysis and reasoning in identifying the essential junctures of the historical path and the contents of the legal institutions studied; 3) the adequacy of the technical-legal language used in the presentation. - Extended program
- 1. Giustiniano and the corpus iuris civilis. The fate of the corpus iuris in the early Middle Ages. The “rediscovery” of Justinian law. Approaches of legal science to the corpus: a) the gloss; b) the commentary; c) legal humanism. A law that becomes “common”. The study centers: the birth of the Universities. 2. The corpus iuris canonici: the formation, the main collections. Decretists and decretalists. 3. Custom and the fief. 4. Medieval pluralism. Kingdoms, Municipalities, corporations (merchants, notaries). 5. Modern natural law. 6. The government of pluralism in the absolute State: the Great Courts and the tendency towards centralization. 7. Legal Enlightenment: Montesquieu; Rousseau; Beccaria. 8. The collapse of the ancien régime and the law of the Revolution. 9. Napoleonic codification: the debate in legal culture, the repercussions in Europe. Austrian codification. The Historical School. From Savigny to pandectism. The BGB. 10. The pre-unification Italian codes and the Albertine Statute. 11. The unitary codes in Italy and the legal culture of the end of the century. 12. State and legislation during the twenty years of fascism. 13. Towards the civil code of 1942. The Constitutions of the twentieth century.
- Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- Reduce inequalities.
HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LAW
| Code | A000753 |
|---|---|
| Location | PERUGIA |
| CFU | 4 |
| Teacher | Eloisa Mura |
| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Discipline giuridiche |
| Sector | IUS/19 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LAW
| Code | A000753 |
|---|---|
| Location | PERUGIA |
| CFU | 2 |
| Teacher | Eloisa Mura |
| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Discipline giuridiche |
| Sector | IUS/19 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |