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.
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-8225-9697
Titolo del capitolo
Le libertà delle città dei regni. Mezzogiorno italiano ed Europa (secoli XIII-XV)
Autori
Pierluigi Terenzi
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0382-1.10
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Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 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