Bartolus of Sassoferrato: His Position in the History of Medieval Political Thought

Cecil N. Sidney Woolf

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139343374

Cecil Nathan Sidney Woolf (1887–1917), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, was killed in the First World War. In this prize-winning book, published in 1913, Woolf examines the way in which the medieval jurist Bartolus of Sassoferrato (1314–57) interprets the Roman Law to make it relevant to fourteenth-century Italian political reality. Considering Bartolus's treatment of the relationships between the Roman Empire and the papacy, kingdoms and city-republics, Woolf places Bartolus's thought in its wider historical context by surveying the complex problem of the empire from the mid-thirteenth century onwards. In particular, he assesses Bartolus's most famous argument that the city is its own emperor. Arguing that Bartolus's influence lasted into the early modern period, both in the practice of law and in the use made of his works by writers like Bodin and Albericus Gentilis, this book also includes a useful table explaining Bartolus's distinctions between imperium and jurisdiction.

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His Position in the History of Medieval Political Thought

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

PREFACE
pp vii-xii

NOTE ON AUTHORITIES
pp xiii-xix

Contents
pp xx-xxiv

CHAPTER I - INTRODUCTION
pp 1-20

CHAPTER II - THE POLITICAL THEORIES OF BARTOLUS
pp 21-207

CHAPTER III - THE PROBLEM OF THE EMPIRE
pp 208-383

CHAPTER IV - CONCLUSION
pp 384-394

APPENDIX A - Biographical
pp 395-402

APPENDIX B - Bartolus and the Canonists
pp 402-405

APPENDIX C - Jurisdictio and Imperium
pp 405-407

INDEX
pp 408-414

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