Peace through legislation: law codes and social control in Restoration Italy. During the Sattelzeit of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, all Western European countries (especially France, Prussia, the Habsburg Empire and those countries subjected to Napoleonic Rule) entered a phase that witnessed the intensive production of legal codes. It is worth considering, on the one hand, the dissemination of nineteenth century codes as episodes, within the context, of a wider process of ‘cultural translation’ of normative models. This occurred within newly formed webs of knowledge exchange that were both trans-national and local in scope. On the other hand, as demonstrated by the Austrian codes, as well as those adopted within Italy (these will be examined further in this paper), the twin goals of normative uniformity and standardisation did not necessitate the devastation of pre-existing territorial & geographic jurisdictions. Nor did these codes entail the destruction of certain privileges and local customs, nor the did they preclude the introduction of citizenship based on a generic notion of ‘nationhood.’ Italy during the first decades of the nineteenth century is a particularly good historiographical example of how such legal texts contributed to the reconstruction of social hierarchies and public order. One needs of course to bear in mind the differing geographic contexts -that is the different Italian regional states as well as those provinces ruled by the Habsburg Empire – but also the vision of the relationship between individual and society that was imagined by these legal codes.

Peace Through Legislation: Law Codes and Social Control in Restoration Italy / Bellabarba, Marco. - STAMPA. - (2019), pp. 277-286. [10.5040/9781788318044.ch-022]

Peace Through Legislation: Law Codes and Social Control in Restoration Italy

Bellabarba, Marco
2019-01-01

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Peace through legislation: law codes and social control in Restoration Italy. During the Sattelzeit of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, all Western European countries (especially France, Prussia, the Habsburg Empire and those countries subjected to Napoleonic Rule) entered a phase that witnessed the intensive production of legal codes. It is worth considering, on the one hand, the dissemination of nineteenth century codes as episodes, within the context, of a wider process of ‘cultural translation’ of normative models. This occurred within newly formed webs of knowledge exchange that were both trans-national and local in scope. On the other hand, as demonstrated by the Austrian codes, as well as those adopted within Italy (these will be examined further in this paper), the twin goals of normative uniformity and standardisation did not necessitate the devastation of pre-existing territorial & geographic jurisdictions. Nor did these codes entail the destruction of certain privileges and local customs, nor the did they preclude the introduction of citizenship based on a generic notion of ‘nationhood.’ Italy during the first decades of the nineteenth century is a particularly good historiographical example of how such legal texts contributed to the reconstruction of social hierarchies and public order. One needs of course to bear in mind the differing geographic contexts -that is the different Italian regional states as well as those provinces ruled by the Habsburg Empire – but also the vision of the relationship between individual and society that was imagined by these legal codes.
2019
A History of the European Restorations: 1: Governments, States and Monarchy
London
Bloomsbury Academic
9781788318037
978-1-7883-1804-4
978-1-7867-3658-1
Bellabarba, Marco
Peace Through Legislation: Law Codes and Social Control in Restoration Italy / Bellabarba, Marco. - STAMPA. - (2019), pp. 277-286. [10.5040/9781788318044.ch-022]
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