Three well-defined nuclei of analysis - the revolts of the barons against the king, the people's movements against the magnates and the peasant uprisings against serfdom - are instead the object of the recognition of the imagination that mobilized these social groups carried out by the author by relying on the sources chronicles. The specific demands of libertas - whether those of the barons of the kingdom of Sicily, the popular Florentine Guelphs or the English rebels - always refer to a more universal and abstract conception of freedom, to be understood as a collective and not particular right. A freedom in the singular, therefore, brandished in conflicts that expressed requests for political participation in opposition to powers perceived as tyrannical or arbitrary, or to governments that excluded social groups from the political life of the community.
University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-4790-3576
Chapter Title
Gruppi sociali e libertà
Authors
Alessandro Barbero
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0382-1.09
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2024
Copyright Information
© 2024 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Book Title
Libertas e libertates nel tardo medioevo. Realtà italiane nel contesto europeo
Book Subtitle
Atti del XVI Convegno di studi San Miniato 11-13 ottobre 2018
Editors
Andrea Zorzi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
278
Publication Year
2024
Copyright Information
© 2024 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0382-1
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0381-4
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0382-1
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0383-8
Series Title
Centro di Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo San Miniato
Series ISSN
2704-5692
Series E-ISSN
2704-5706