Build and legitimize father’s and comunal’s authority in a trial in San Severino (marche) in the middle of the fifteenth century

• Autor(a) principal: Lett, Didier
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Anos 90 (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/40864
• topic: Itália; Autoridade; Normas/práticas; Italy; Authority; Norms/practices

In August 1458, in San Severino (Marche of Ancona), during a gioco della battagliola, battle of stones very ritualized in which the children of the city fight against each over, a child is seriously wounded. The victim’s father triggers an inquisitorial trial, forcing the guilty’s one to come, with witnesses, to defend his son, trying to prove, among other things, that her child, under the age of ten years, is not legally responsible. This paternal defense shows that to protect their kinfolk, social actors use the statutory norms and legal machinery set up by the municipality. It also allows us to observe the manifestations of various authority figures and uncover the various instances of explicit or implicit legitimation. This type of event built paternal authority and communal’s authority. This study of micro-history still can reveal, all the representations, rules of conduct, values attached to the person or to the actions, major components “ideational” of social life, and to question the relevance of a sweeping opposition between norms and practices.