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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    14 November 2024
    21 November 2024
    ISBN:
    9781009019583
    9781316519899
    9781009011457
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009019583
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 138 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.39kg, 214 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 138 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.28kg, 214 Pages
    • Series:
    Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, European Studies, Politics and International Relations, Texts in Political Thought, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, European Studies, Politics and International Relations, Texts in Political Thought, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    The medieval jurist Bartolus of Sassoferrato (d. 1357) has long been accorded seminal importance by historians of political thought. This volume provides the first complete English translation of his three most celebrated tracts: On Guelfs and Ghibellines, On the Government of a City, and On the Tyrant, which constituted the first consolidated response by a medieval lawyer to the problem of tyranny in the city republics of central and northern Italy. Crucial sections of Bartolus' academic commentaries on Roman law are also translated in an appendix. George Garnett and Magnus Ryan make the writings of Bartolus accessible to an expanded audience, situating his political theory in its original context and explaining his arguments. Footnotes to the translation explain all Bartolus' references to normative sources, legal and otherwise, and a detailed glossary of legal terms and institutions is provided. This translation allows readers to understand how Bartolus mobilised the Roman and canon laws to address immediate political developments, and why he was the most famous and enduringly influential medieval lawyer.

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