HIST-1106EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Bartolus De Saxoferrato, Rory Bremner, Glossator
8 Nov 2020
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Bartolus of sassoferrato(1313-1357) is the jurist who gave his name to a new school of the practice of roman law, known as the school of the bartolists or the commentators. A defining characteristic of the bartolists was their practical orientation. Glossators, who focused on textual interpretation of the corpus iuris, the commentators saw the corpus iuris as a source of legal rules to apply to current issues in law. Roman law texts in an effort to give their opinions an air of the authority inherent in imperial law. Bartolus sought and found practical solutions for issues such as the nature of exercise of authority in the northern italian city-states. Bartolus set out his findings in tracts such as his tractatus de regimine civitatis (circa 1330. Ad), a treatment of the administration of city-states. His main work was an exhaustive commentary on all volumes of the corpus iuris.
