Politics and justice in late medieval Bologna / / by Sarah Rubin Blanshei.

• Superior document: Medieval law and its practice ; v. 7
• Author: Blanshei, Sarah Rubin.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston, Mass. : : Brill,, 2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval Law and Its Practice 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (681 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; Chapter One /; Chapter Two. Oligarchy: Councils Of The Commune /; Chapter Three. Oligarchy: Councils Of The Popolo /; Chapter Four /; Chapter Five. The Politicization Of Criminal Justice /; Epilogue /; Map Of Bologna /; Appendices /; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [641]-653) and index.
• ISBN: 1282786784; 9786612786785; 9004189432
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Sarah Rubin Blanshei.

This book is the first to investigate the practice of summary justice in a late medieval Italian commune. In delineating the political and social context of that development in late medieval Bologna, it also is the first to study the phenomenon of oligarchy not only at the level of the executive body of a commune, but also in the broader councils of commune and popolo, as well as among the ranks of the enfranchised political class. The dominant popolo party constructed itself through multiple forms of exclusion that deeply affected the administration of justice and led to the rise of new institutions of judicial appeal and equity. Exclusion also led to shifting concepts of the legal status and perceptions of social identity of insider and outsider, of popolano and magnate, as revealed in the testimony of witnesses in trial records. Bologna's rich archival sources make it possible to bring a new perspective to key issues in legal and social history.