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Constitutions of Melfi

Italy [1231]
Also known as: Liber Augustalis

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  • effect on Italy
    • Italy
      In Italy: The Sicilian kingdom

      The Constitutions of Melfi, or Liber Augustalis, promulgated by Frederick in 1231, was a model of the new legislation developing from the study of Roman and canon law. The intent of this legislation was to bring together the disparate elements within the kingdom and to unify…

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  • opposition by Gregory IX
    • Gregory IX consecrating the chapel of St. Gregory, detail of a fresco, 13th century; in the lower church of Sacro Speco, Subiaco, Italy
      In Gregory IX

      …of the Liber Augustalis, or Constitutions of Melfi, a code of laws for the Kingdom of Sicily. Though there was little in these laws that was actually objectionable, their thrust in the direction of a strong monarchy contained a threat to the church.

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contribution by

    • Frederick II
      • Frederick II
        In Frederick II: Years as a Crusader

        In August 1231, at Melfi, the emperor issued his new constitutions for the Kingdom of Sicily. Not since the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I in the 6th century had the administrative law of a European state been codified. Frederick’s codes contained many ideas that anticipated enlightened absolutism…

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    • Pietro della Vigna
      • In Pietro Della Vigna

        …author of the constitution of Melfi (1231), a legal code that systematized Norman law, superimposing the new Hohenstaufen absolutism. The code was written in the elegant Latin style for which Pietro became famous. An exponent of the rhetorical ars dictaminis (“craft of composition”), Pietro influenced the literary form of Frederick’s…

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