09/07/2025 08:30
- 09:30
HALL: Lecture Hall 33
Proponent:
De Lorenzo L.,
Impagnatiello M.
Chair:
Badini F.
Speaker:
De Lorenzo L.,
Impagnatiello M.
The panel's objective is to examine the pivotal function of legal and canonical production in European culture between the 12th and 14th centuries, commencing with the production, dissemination and application processes of legal texts. In greater detail, the panel will analyse the networks of exchange between study centres, cathedral schools and monasteries, as well as the role of emerging universities. Specific focus will be given to the study of material culture, encompassing the production and tradition of manuscripts, glossaries, and collections of decretales. Additionally, the mechanisms of institutional and local implementation of legal norms will be subjected to analysis. This investigation will consider research based on manuscript and archival sources, with a preference for a historical-critical approach, as well as a more purely codicological and palaeographical analysis. The objective is to demonstrate how legal production, in its various dimensions, has contributed to the formation of a network of knowledge and practices capable of shaping the identity of medieval Europe.