HISTORY OF JURIDICAL INSTITUTIONS IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND IN EARLY MIDDLE AGE
Stampa
Enrollment year
2015/2016
Academic year
2015/2016
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
IUS/18 (ROMAN LAW AND LAWS OF ANCIENT TIMES)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
HISTORY OF EUROPE
Curriculum
STORICO-GIURIDICO
Year of study
Period
2nd semester (23/02/2016 - 30/05/2016)
ECTS
6
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Language
Italian
Activity type
ORAL TEST
Teacher
MAROTTA VALERIO (titolare) - 6 ECTS
Prerequisites
None
Learning outcomes
This course is meant to give a general overview on the main questions arised by the study of law in a time manced by the end of the Western Roman Empire and the settling of barbarians in roman provinces.
Course contents
The course deals with the history of marriage and family between the IV and the VIII century and the juridical problems concerning the accommodation of barbarians in the WestIntroduction. The constitutio Antoniniana and the Romanitas: Aristocracy and inferior social classes. Late Antiquity law and our main sources of knowledge about it: codex Theodosianus, codex repetitae praelectionis and barbarian laws (with a special regard towards the Pactus legis Salicae). 1. The Marriage. The christian influence. Indissolubility. Roman rules. Biblical revelation and Fathers of the Church. Inceste and prohibited marriages. The customs of Germanic peoples. 2. The settling of barbarians in the provinces of the Empire: foederati, dediticii, laeti and gentiles. The ius militare in the codex Theodosianus. Expropriations and settling in the barbarian kingdoms. Ostrogothic Italy. Lombards and Land. and, in particular, in Italy.
Teaching methods
Direct Teaching.
Reccomended or required readings
Attenders:
V. MAROTTA, Appunti di storia del diritto tardoantico e altomedievale.
Please read:
S. GASPARRI, C. LA ROCCA, Tempi barbarici. L’Europa occidentale tra antichità e medioevo (300-900), Roma, Carocci, 2012.
Non-attending Students:
Please read:
C. WICKHAM, L’eredità di Roma. Storia d’Europa dal 400 al 1000 d.C., Roma-Bari, Editori Laterza, 2014.
Concerning the analysis of specific topics, the students have to agree with the professor upon the programme which best suits their interests.
Assessment methods
Oral examination.
Further information
None.
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