Abstract
Manzoni can be considered a legal historian like Dickens and so many other novelists. In fact,
he has succeeded in humanizing stereotyped formulas of law in Renzo and Lucia’s novel. What he is
concerned with is the machinery by which the law is enforced, the men who enforced it, the conditions
in which these men lived and the actual effects of the rules of law, substantive and adjective, upon
the men and the women of his day. Hence we get in “Promessi Sposi” that account of the human side
of the rules of law and their working, which is essential to the legal historian and, in this case, to
the ecclesiastical historian. Also the relations between Church and State in XVIth are painted with
extraordinary powers observation
Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] Clerics and public authorities in Alessandro Manzoni's Promessi Sposi |
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Lingua originale | Italian |
pagine (da-a) | 83-106 |
Numero di pagine | 24 |
Rivista | JUS |
Volume | LXIV |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2017 |
Keywords
- diritto e letteratura
- ecclesiastical law
- history of ecclesiastical law
- law and humanities
- law and literature
- storia del diritto