Water and the Law: Water Management in the Statutory Legislation of Later Communal Italy
Author:   Francesco Salvestrini (Professor of Medieval History, University of Florence)
Publisher:   Archaeopress
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9781803277363


Pages:   178
Publication Date:   21 March 2024
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Author:   Francesco Salvestrini (Professor of Medieval History, University of Florence)
Publisher:   Archaeopress
Imprint:   Archaeopress Archaeology
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781803277363


ISBN 10:   180327736
Pages:   178
Publication Date:   21 March 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction   I. Medieval Statutes and Water Management: The Italian Context   II. Verifying a Hypothesis   III. Legal Norms for Water Management: The Urban Context   IV. Legal Norms for Water Management: Rural Areas   V. Conflicts and Regulatory ‘Solutions’   VI. Water Quality   VII. Water-driven Machinery   VIII. Transportation of Merchandise and People. Timber Rafting   IX. Protection from Flooding and the Religious Dimension   XI. Concluding Remarks   List of statutes examined   Bibliography   Figures   Indexes

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Francesco Salvestrini is Full Professor in Medieval History at the University of Florence (IT), and has been visiting professor at the University of Bristol (UK), Universität Kassel (D), Hankuk University of Foreign Studies - Seoul (KOR), Université de Tours (F). He is especially interested in ecclesiastical, social and environmental history of Late Medieval Italy and Europe. He studied the Bendictine tradition, the Vallumbrosan monastic congregation, the Tuscan Cistercians, the Camaldule and Sylvestrine monastic orders, Italian Augustinians and Minorites; the municipal law of many Italian towns and cities, with attention to their translation from Latin into Vernacular; and the interrelations among medieval ecosystems, water resources and human settlements. He was the Director of the Project Erasmus+ UNINET in 2019. Among his main publications are: 2005: Libera città su fiume regale. Firenze e l’Arno dall’antichità al Quattrocento. Firenze: Nardini; 2017: Il carisma della magnificenza. L’abate vallombrosano Biagio Milanesi e la tradizione benedettina nell’Italia del Rinascimento. Roma: Viella.

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