Judiciary and administrative records: the urban chancery in Palermo (14th century)

Authors

  • Beatrice Pasciuta Università degli Studi di Palermo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/110

Keywords:

Middle Ages, 14th Century, Aragonese Sicily, Urban and royal institutions, Archives, Civil justice, Public written records

Abstract

The judiciary written records produced by the civil tribunal of Palermo during the 14th century join the administrative records about the city government in a superposition only apparent of functions of the same magistrature, the corte pretoriana. This coincidence is actually more the signal of the preminence and the political prestige of the corte than the result of a confusion of roles and competences. The corte pretoriana in fact is a urban magistrature entirely elective whose leading role in the city derives from a combination of peculiar prerogatives and the privilegies connected to the citizenship, exercised both on a local arena and within the royal institutions.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Published

2008-12-15

How to Cite

Pasciuta, Beatrice. 2008. “Judiciary and Administrative Records: The Urban Chancery in Palermo (14th Century)”. Reti Medievali Journal 9 (1):Art. #21. https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/110.

Issue

Section

Essayes in Monographic Section