Profile of Edoardo Ruffini
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https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/26Keywords:
Middle Ages, Juridical Historiography, Majority Principle, Memory, Edoardo RuffiniAbstract
Just thirty years old, when he was forced to leave the University for refusing to swear allegiance to the Fascist regime, Edoardo Ruffini had already fully completed the most original and fertile stretch of his experience of scientific research. Consumed in four years, between 1924 and 1927, about a common theme of inquiry: the history of the majority principle: it is still a witness at all isolated in the panorama of Italian legal history. This paper, after a brief presentation of the intellectual biography of the author, traces the themes of greatest interest in his work to a history of political thought and institutions of Italy during Middle Ages: period that Ruffini recognized as fundamental in the development of the dynamics that allowed majority principle to assert itself (even before that as a rule of law) as a practice of political action over other methods of deliberation, both within the Church and, since his very first appearances, in the ambit of communal assemblies and consulates.Downloads
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