The role of Embassies in the Italian communal statutory legislation and in the Cronicle of Salimbene of Adam (XIIth- XIVth centuries)

• Grant number: 12/16475-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: February 01, 2013
• End date: August 13, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Ancient and Medieval History
• Principal Investigator: Marcelo Cândido da Silva
• Grantee: Edward Dettmam Loss
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 13/07721-5 - The Italian statutory legislation: manuscript tradition and methodological specificities (XIIth to XIVth century), BE.EP.MS

Abstract

Debates developed in the last decades about the concept of Diplomacy allowed the negotiation and mediation practices from the medieval period to be considered as diplomatic practices, a title once reserved only to realities related to the Modern State. In this scenario, the Italian Communal Period (XIIth to XIVth centuries) has arisen the interest of historians as a privileged field to study Diplomacy, remarkably due to the conflict experiences between most cities and the Holy Roman German Empire. In this process, documents produced in the Penisula went through an intense process of revision and exploration in the point of view of Diplomacy, however, the Statutory Communal Legislation did not have the same luck as other texts on this sort of inquire, mainly because they were considered too rigid to be used in the exploration of such matter. Apart from the works of Angelini and Gilli, who signaled to the possibilities of studying the statutes in a Diplomatic point of view, these documents continue to be mostly unedited and unexplored, especially the relationship of these rubricae dedicated to ambassadors with the political movements of the period. Therefore, this research aims to analyses the different redactions of the communal statutes of Bologna, Florence, Ferrara, Verona and Modena, written between the XIIIth and the XVth century, in order to try to understand how these texts regulated the organization of embassies and the choice of ambassadors to represent communal interests abroad, and what was the relationship established between the rubricae dedicated to this figure and the political disputes in the interior of each one of these communes and in them as a group. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

LOSS, Edward Dettmam. Ambassadors and urban politics in the Italian communal statutes between the 13th and the 15th centuries. 2015. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.