During the Modern Age, the University of Perugia’s administration was overseen by three bodies: representatives of central government and the Church, civic magistrature and doctoral guilds – jurists, physicians, philosophers and theologians. The latter groups enjoyed wide-ranging powers, in part provided by statutes and in part from the relative degree of disinterest shown by the other groups involved in the running of the University. The paper considers the role of the doctoral guilds as an expression of the relations between the city’s patriciate and State power. Even during the years in which the city was under Papal State rule, the city’s élites maintained the greater control of the University and contributed to its cultural isolation. Such power relations were not undermined either by the urban reform of 1625, or by the series of reforms carried out in the eighteenth century. The vacuum created as a result of revolutionary and Napoleonic events caused, however, the definitive decline of the power of the doctoral guilds.
L’UNIVERSITÀ DI PERUGIA IN ETÀ MODERNA: UNA DIALETTICA TRA STATO E CORPORAZIONI URBANE
LUPI, Regina
2014
Abstract
During the Modern Age, the University of Perugia’s administration was overseen by three bodies: representatives of central government and the Church, civic magistrature and doctoral guilds – jurists, physicians, philosophers and theologians. The latter groups enjoyed wide-ranging powers, in part provided by statutes and in part from the relative degree of disinterest shown by the other groups involved in the running of the University. The paper considers the role of the doctoral guilds as an expression of the relations between the city’s patriciate and State power. Even during the years in which the city was under Papal State rule, the city’s élites maintained the greater control of the University and contributed to its cultural isolation. Such power relations were not undermined either by the urban reform of 1625, or by the series of reforms carried out in the eighteenth century. The vacuum created as a result of revolutionary and Napoleonic events caused, however, the definitive decline of the power of the doctoral guilds.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
