Cultural History of Law

The course provides students with useful tools for a cultural approach to the legal dimension from a historical perspective, in order to:
-Recognise the different sources of medieval, modern and contemporary law (documentary and printed, written and oral)
-Outline the identity of the legal professional and its roles in society, in a long-term perspective
-Define the idea, image and representations of justice with reference to the social, political and economic contexts of medieval, modern and contemporary Europe.
-Present the routes of protection of individual and collective rights in European legal traditions from the Middle Ages to the present day.

At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Select and compare the different sources of law, in their materiality and content (normative, preceptive, discursive)
- Apply the acquired knowledge to the understanding of the legal phenomenon in social life, in its different articulations, both in the past and in the present day
- Critically analyse ideals and representations of justice in European history
- Relevantly discuss the founding paths of rights protection in Europe, in a diachronic perspective