The relationship between cities and sovereigns in the kingdoms of southern Italy is investigated by the author from a European perspective, highlighting how libertas was equivalent to the submission of communities to monarchical power and the absence of lordly domination, making subjection the essential condition for obtain it or keep it under the guarantee of the sovereign; and how anti-monarchical revolts, both those connected with taxation and those intended to replace the dynasty, were bearers of a generic notion of freedom. The libertates of which the monarch was the guarantor were not only made up of the immunities and rights that contributed to defining the political space of the cities within the kingdom but founded the relationship of legitimation between the sovereigns and the city ruling groups that carried out public functions in his name.
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Chapter Title
Le libertà delle città dei regni. Mezzogiorno italiano ed Europa (secoli XIII-XV)
Authors
Pierluigi Terenzi
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0382-1.10
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Libertas e libertates nel tardo medioevo. Realtà italiane nel contesto europeo
Book Subtitle
Atti del XVI Convegno di studi San Miniato 11-13 ottobre 2018
Editors
Andrea Zorzi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
278
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
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
Series Title
Centro di Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo San Miniato
Series ISSN
2704-5692
Series E-ISSN
2704-5706