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I Magnati e il Diritto nei Comuni Italiani del XIII Secolo

Abstract

The subject matter of this book is the phenomenon known as “anti-magnate legislation”. Such legislation, or groups of laws implemented in several northern and central Italian cities in the 13th century, certainly constitutes a well-known and much debated topic of Italian communal history. I argue that the promulgation of this legislation should be considered part of a wide phase of “intensification”. Juridical pluralism and intensification of the law turn out to be the principal theoretical background of the legislation taken into consideration in this work. These are juridical phenomena which are neither peculiar to the Middle Age, nor peculiar to the communal phase of the Italian history. Widening the perspective has allowed us to debunk the myth of the uniqueness of the legislation which for a long time has been defined “anti-magnate”.