Three well-defined nuclei of analysis - the revolts of the barons against the king, the people's movements against the magnates and the peasant uprisings against serfdom - are instead the object of the recognition of the imagination that mobilized these social groups carried out by the author by relying on the sources chronicles. The specific demands of libertas - whether those of the barons of the kingdom of Sicily, the popular Florentine Guelphs or the English rebels - always refer to a more universal and abstract conception of freedom, to be understood as a collective and not particular right. A freedom in the singular, therefore, brandished in conflicts that expressed requests for political participation in opposition to powers perceived as tyrannical or arbitrary, or to governments that excluded social groups from the political life of the community.
University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-4790-3576
Titolo del capitolo
Gruppi sociali e libertà
Autori
Alessandro Barbero
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0382-1.09
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Libertas e libertates nel tardo medioevo. Realtà italiane nel contesto europeo
Sottotitolo del libro
Atti del XVI Convegno di studi San Miniato 11-13 ottobre 2018
Curatori
Andrea Zorzi
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
278
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0382-1
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0381-4
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0382-1
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0383-8
Collana
Centro di Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo San Miniato
ISSN della collana
2704-5692
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5706