Politics and Justice in Late Medieval Bologna (Medieval Law and Its Practice, 7)

Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 8
A Note on Usage......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
I. Part I. Politics of Closure: Setting the Boundaries......Page 26
Part II. Prosecuting the Excluded......Page 54
II. Oligarchy: Councils of the Commune......Page 80
III. Oligarchy: Councils of the Popolo......Page 124
IV. Part I. Status: Legal Definitions......Page 146
1. Lambertazzi......Page 194
2. Fumantes......Page 213
3. Magnates: The List of 1294......Page 219
4. Identification of Magnates: Habitus......Page 221
5. Ancestry vs. Lifestyle......Page 227
6. Urban Magnates and Knighthood......Page 242
7. Lifestyle as Proof of Status......Page 250
8. Other Proofs of Status......Page 271
9. Politics vs. Hereditary Status......Page 277
10. Magnate Identity Trials as a Tool of Conflict......Page 282
11. Political Profiles......Page 285
12. The Debate on Nobility......Page 307
13. Status and Society......Page 317
1. Equality......Page 324
2. Torture......Page 331
3. Due Process......Page 348
4. Captured Banniti......Page 377
5. Protestacio......Page 380
6. Privilege......Page 388
7. Querele and Summary Justice......Page 419
8. Petitions as Predecessors to the Querela......Page 429
9. Legislation of 1313......Page 439
10. The New Querela of 1320......Page 452
11. Expansion of Summary Justice: Its Significance......Page 466
12. Implementation of the Querela......Page 473
13. Suspension of Due Process: Resistance by the Judges......Page 495
Epilogue......Page 510
Map of Bologna......Page 520
A. Jurisdictions of the Courts of the Capitano del Popolo......Page 522
B. Table for Chapter One......Page 538
C. Table for Chapter Two......Page 540
D. Tables for Chapter Three......Page 542
E. Tables for Chapter Four......Page 576
F. Tables for Chapter Five......Page 608
Bibliography......Page 652
Index......Page 666