OVERVIEW

The course is aimed at analyzing both legal texts and literary works reflecting Medieval Germanic legal concepts, paying particular attention to their language(s) from a historic and comparative perspective.

AIMS AND CONTENT

TEACHING METHODS

Tradional

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

1) Law among the Early Medieval Germanic peoples

2) Law in West Germanic legal texts

3) Women in Medieval Germanic legal texts

4) Christian influence on Germanic law

5) Selected examples of legal terms and concepts in Germanic legal texts

6) Selected examples of legal terms and concepts in Germanic literary texts

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

“Materiali inerenti al Corso LM dell’a.a. 2015-2016” ed.  C. Händl (see aulaweb);

- Marco Scovazzi, Le origini del diritto germanico, Fonti, preistoria, Diritto pubblico, Milano 1957, pp. 27-150;

- Claudia Händl (ed.), «Vom Rechte» // «Sul diritto», Pisa 1998;

- James A. Brundage, Law and Sex in Early Medieval Europe, 1987

- Daniela Fruscione, Zur Frage eines germanischen Rechtswortschatzes, in: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte / Germanistische Abteilung, 122 (2005), pp. 1-41

- Lisi Oliver, The Body Legal in Barbarian Law, Toronto et al., 2011, pp.164-202 (= chapter 6 “Insult and Injury”; chapter 7 “Assaults against Women”)

- Ruth Schmidt-Wiegand, Die volkssprachigen Wörter der Leges Barbarorum als Ausdruck sprachlicher Interferenz, in: Frühmittelalterliche Studien 13, 2010, pp. 56-87

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

CHIARA BENATI (President)

CLAUDIA THERESIA HANDL (President)

DAVIDE AGOSTINO FINCO

PAOLO MARELLI

LESSONS

Class schedule

GERMANIC PHILOLOGY LM

EXAMS

Exam schedule