Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 UNIVERSAL AND TERRITORIAL POWERS: THE FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURE OF BALDUS' POLITICAL THOUGHT
- 2 THE NATURE AND LIMITATIONS OF THE EMPEROR'S POWER
- 3 THE SOVEREIGNTY OF INDEPENDENT CITY-REPUBLICS
- 4 MEMBERSHIP OF THE CITY-COMMUNITY: POLITICAL MAN AND CITIZENSHIP
- 5 THE CITY-‘POPULUS’ AS A SELF-GOVERNING CORPORATION
- 6 KINGSHIP AND ‘SIGNORIE’
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX I Latin text of passages translated into English and of part of Baldus' commentary on D.1.1.9
- APPENDIX II Notes on civilians and canonists mentioned in the text
- Bibliography
- Index
APPENDIX II - Notes on civilians and canonists mentioned in the text
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 UNIVERSAL AND TERRITORIAL POWERS: THE FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURE OF BALDUS' POLITICAL THOUGHT
- 2 THE NATURE AND LIMITATIONS OF THE EMPEROR'S POWER
- 3 THE SOVEREIGNTY OF INDEPENDENT CITY-REPUBLICS
- 4 MEMBERSHIP OF THE CITY-COMMUNITY: POLITICAL MAN AND CITIZENSHIP
- 5 THE CITY-‘POPULUS’ AS A SELF-GOVERNING CORPORATION
- 6 KINGSHIP AND ‘SIGNORIE’
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX I Latin text of passages translated into English and of part of Baldus' commentary on D.1.1.9
- APPENDIX II Notes on civilians and canonists mentioned in the text
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
ACCURSIUS, FRANCISCUS
b. 1181/5 into a family from the Florentine contado. Student of Azo at Bologna. Professor at Bologna, d. 1259/63.
WORKS: Produced the Glossa ordinaria on all parts of the Corpus Iuris Civilis. He transcribed, condensed and conflated all he thought worthwhile from his predecessors' work: main sources, Azo and Hugolinus. Accursius' Gloss was the culmination of the work of the school of Glossators, and remained the fundamental text for the scholastic theory and practice of law until the early seventeenth century.
ALBERICUS DE ROSCIATE
b. ca. 1290 near Bergamo. Studied at Padua under Oldradus de Ponte and Ricardus Malumbra. Lived at Bergamo, where he was a practising lawyer and took part in public life. There is no mention of any academic post held by him. Reformed the statutes of Bergamo in a sense favourable to the signorial regime. In his legal commentaries influenced by the scholastic methods of the early French Commentators, d. 1360.
WORKS: Commentarium de statutis: a most important and informed contribution to the early development of the study of private international law. Commentaria on the Digest and the Code. Dictionarium iuris: first great lexicographical undertaking in jurisprudence.
d. ca. 1316. Judge at the Magna regia curia at Naples from 1288. Professor of civil law, University of Naples from 1289. Magistrate. Juridical adviser to the Neapolitan monarchy. 1309: accompanied King Robert of Naples on embassy to Avignon.
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- The Political Thought of Baldus de Ubaldis , pp. 271 - 277Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1987