The public records of Southern Italy universitates. Production and preservation
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/108Keywords:
Middle Ages, 15th Century, Naples, Capua, Political institution, Local community, ArchivesAbstract
The communication focuses on an empiric classification of the public written records produced and preserved by the universitates of the Southern Italy between late middle ages and early modern. Following the contemporary distinctions, we may order these sources in three groups: the privilegi (the acts produced by the royal, feudal or urban authority over the city), the cautele (legal acts produced for the city), le scritture (the acts produced by the city itself in its daily administrative tasks). Only the first acts in this sequence were locally carefully preserved, even if they were not produced by the city chancery. The opposition between centre and periphery is completely useless in explaining the documentary and political continuum between central authority and universitas. The social and political emergence of a family group in the urban society, for instance, was not possible or even conceivable without a strong connection with the royal court.
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