Dr. Silvia Di Paolo
Silvia Di Paolo is Associate Professor of Medieval and Modern Legal History (2022) at Roma Tre University Law Department. She studied Law at Roma Tre University (2003, JD equivalent) and she obtained a PhD in History of Medieval and Modern Law (2008) from the University of Studies in Milan. She has received multiple fellowships in Germany (at Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte in Frankfurt A/M and at Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel). She has taught History of Medieval and Modern Legal History; History of Administrative Law and Ius Commune in the Law Department (Roma Tre) and History of Administrative and Judicial Systems in the Political Science Department (Roma Tre).
She was co-director of a Trilateral Project on “La Chiesa nella crisi e le risposte del diritto: dall’Alto medioevo alla Riforma” (“The Church in Crisis and the Responses of Law: From the Middle Ages to the Age of Reform”; Centro Italo-Tedesco per l’Eccellenza Europea “Villa Vigoni” (VV), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme). She was a member of the research project: “Religious Precept and Legal Norm: The Life and History of the Fundamental Dialectic of the Western Legal Tradition” and a senior staffs member of ERC Consolidator Grant 2020 “Migrating commercial law and language. Rethinking lex mercatoria (11th-17th cent.)” – MICOLL (P.I.: prof. S. Gialdroni). She has also been a member of several other European research projects (promoted by French, German and Italian academic institutions).
Her main research interests concern the History of Canon Law between the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age with a special focus on the administrative dimension of the Western Church and on the influence of ecclesiastical mechanisms on the formation of European Legal Culture. She is particularly interested in the birth of legal printed books and the formation of the Corpus Iuris Canonici at the beginning of the 16th century, investigating the transformations of the Church order in the transition from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Age. Her current research field concerns the historical foundations and the mechanisms around which European healthcare has been developed and has forged its own ethics and economic management. She investigates pious bequests as a tool of promotion and stabilization of corpora, i.e. causae piae, which have constituted a complex system of voluntary participation of the individuals in the economy of the communitas.
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Verso la modernità giuridica della Chiesa. Giovanni Francesco Pavini (ca. 1424–1485) : la stampa, le decisiones, le extravagantes e la disciplina amministrativa
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