La giustizia pubblica medievale

It is a common feature of much contemporary historiography to deconstruct standard depictions of historical phenomena in order to present them as constructions, not givens. This restores agency to the historical actors, while also complicating the story. Vallerani's approach to the history of Italian justice in the thirteenth century is just such a contribution. In this volume he gathers six of his essays on this theme, four of them already published between 1997 and 2001, and two published here for the first time. The target that he aims to dismantle is the ‘grand narrative’ of the evolution of criminal justice and its relation to the state. According to this narrative, the strengthening of state power in this period of the middle ages and the replacement of accusatory procedure by inquisition were linked developments: whereas trial by accusation was in the hands of the parties, and was slow and formulaic, inquisition

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