A lecture by Fabrizio Ricciardelli
The language of justice adopted in the political trials that took place in the city states of Italy during the age of the communes is an important starting point for understanding the imposition of discipline throughout Europe in the late medieval age. Strongly emotional language was used to create consent by repressing dissent. The numerous public trials staged in communal Italy, and the exemplary sentences meted out, reveal the need of those in power to legitimise themselves. They were symbolic acts whose purpose was to exert control on a city-state in the grip of violent emotions and warring political factions
Fabrizio Ricciardelli earned his undergraduate degree in Medieval History at the University of Florence (Italy) and his Ph.D. at the University of Warwick (England). In 2012 he was appointed Director of the Kent State University program in Florence. His latest publications are A Short History of Florence (2019), The Medici. The Power of a Dynasty (2021), and The City-States in Late Medieval Italy (2024).
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