The author highlights the characteristics of servitude and personal emancipation in the last centuries of the Middle Ages, tracing them not only to their legal dimension but to the decisive influence of economic and social changes that often escaped the control of the lords, for example with the settling of serfs and with the recognition of the possession of lands under concession for an indefinite period and the right to cede them which offered them the possibility of mixing with the free peasants. Personal manumissions having disappeared in the 12th century, collective manumissions which were still widespread in the following century show precisely how some of them, for example the one promoted by the municipality of Vercelli in 1243, ended up being limited to mere fiscal emancipation because the interested parties were already free men.
University of Turin, Italy
Chapter Title
Servitù ed emancipazione
Authors
Francesco Panero
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0382-1.13
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