Bonjour
Je suis en train de lire le livre de Charles Dalli :'Malta The medieval millenium'
A plusieurs reprises dans ce livre il est question des 'Capitoli'
exemple page 199
:' The Maltese Università confessed its anguish at the death of Martin I and demanded a confirmation of Malta's place in the royal demanio. The capitoli claimed to address injustices undermining the island's written law as well as non-written customs.' (mais il y a plusieurs autres passages où ce mot est employé).
La définition du mot capitoli n'est pas donnée dans le livre. S'agit-il des membres de l'Università ou d'une autre institution.
Quelqu'un du groupe pourrait-il m'éclairer sur ce poin ?
Merci d'avance
Jean Pierre Balzan
Here you are.
Apparently you read English
Malta Historical Society (MHS)
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Source: Proceedings
of History Week 1992. (1993)(1-18)
[p.1] Capitoli: The Voice of an Elite
Charles
Dalli
The capitoli have
long been recognised as an essential source of information for late medieval
historians whose work relates in any important way to the Kingdom of Sicily. [1] In
the fifteenth century the ambassadors of various universitates or
town councils governing the different localities in the Kingdom presented capitoli to
the King or his Viceroy every now and then. Each capitulum would
contain a demand, complaint or some other remark which the particular town
council presenting it would have thought fit to make in the circumstances of
the time. The Crowns reply to each individual capitulum would be
noted down at the bottom of every entry, and later on the Royal Chancellery
normally issued the official instruction for measures which had met with royal
consent to be executed. Capitoli became an established form of
communication between the municipalities of the royal demesne and the Crown. [2] Similarly, universitates which
existed under feudal jurisdiction presented capitoli to their
feudal lord, and Jewish universitates sent their own capitoli to
the King. The role of the capitoli as a major medium of
interaction between Crown and community makes them an indispensable source for
a thorough examination of this political relationship, as well as of the
different aspects of Southern life at ground level. [3]
[p.2] Capitoli were introduced as an official form of
communication after 1282 and therefore they were not an institutional
innovation of the 1390s. However, it was from the 1390s onwards that they
became extremely important. The revolution of 1282 had created a new sociopolitical
order it the Kingdom but the first phase of Aragonese rule was dominated by
political instability, as well as economic and demographic contraction. In a
period of constant Angevin threats to Aragonese rule in Sicily from across the
straits, as well as the related warfare between different magnate factions
within the island, the feudal strata in Sicily won social pre-eminence. The
principal aristocratic families carved the island between themselves. After
1376, with the death of Frederick IV, the Kingdom became kingless. Sicily was
divided into four spheres of influence, each ruled by a vicar. It was only in
the last decade of the 14th century that the mother country, Catalonia-Aragon,
decided upon military intervention to reconquer the island for Barcelona. [4]
Also see
Maltese
Late Medieval Capitoli: A Study, B.A. Honours Thesis,
University of Malta, 1991. Charles
Dalli
TRust it helps
Serge H Borg