Bologna - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 12 Jan 2023 09:59:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Bologna - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The Bolognese School of Glossators https://historylab.es/the-bolognese-school-of-glossators/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-bolognese-school-of-glossators Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:42 +0000 https://historylab.es/the-bolognese-school-of-glossators/ The funerary monuments of the glossators depict them in the act of teaching their students

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]]> The era of the legal glossators – scholars who annotated (glossed) and interpreted Roman legal texts – began with the resumption of the study of Roman law in Bologna at the end of the 11th century; one of their first tasks was to reconstruct Justinian’s Digest, the 6th-century compilation of Roman law, by comparing existing manuscripts. The work of the jurists and the birth of the ‘Bolognese School of Glossators’ were decisive for the development of European society. For this reason, from this time onwards, it became customary to dedicate sculpted funerary monuments in honour of the doctors of law, in most cases depicted in the act of teaching an audience of attentive students. You can explore these works in 3D, and learn about their descriptive and technical details

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]]> Privileges of Bologna students https://historylab.es/privileges-of-bologna-students/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=privileges-of-bologna-students Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:24 +0000 https://historylab.es/privileges-of-bologna-students/ The students' privileges of Bologna carved on a plaque, affixed in a public place, in the early 15th century

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]]> The presence of students from all over Europe in Bologna has always represented a cultural and economic resource for the city, worthy of specific political and legal choices. Evidence of this can be found in a plaque commemorating the exemption from duties on books and provisions, decided in 1417, for the Studio’s Italian and transalpine students. The plaque was placed in a public place – on the side façade of the Palazzo della Mercanzia, seat of the Mercantile Court – so that the people of Bologna would be aware of the rule protecting students.

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]]> Liber Paradisus https://historylab.es/liber-paradisus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=liber-paradisus Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:10 +0000 https://historylab.es/liber-paradisus/ Bologna was the first city in the world to abolish slavery and free the serfs through the enactment of the "Liber Paradisus".

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]]> The “Liber Paradisus” (Book of Paradise) is a book containing the text of the law issued in 1259 by the Municipality of Bologna which proclaimed the abolition of slavery and the liberation of serfs.

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