Educational objectives In line with the objectives of the degree program, the teaching aims to analyze the roots, notably Romanist of the system of legal protection of cultural property.
Although the concepts of "cultural heritage" or "cultural property" are foreign to Roman legal experience, in Roman law, and in the jurisprudential elaboration developed over millennia, we find the basis of that collective, social and, finally, legal consciousness, by virtue of which the community reserves special protection for identity, cultural and/or aesthetic elements.
In the course of the lectures, students will acquire the fundamentals of the main institutes pertaining to this elaboration, such as that of res publicae (in usu publico), res communes omnium, actiones populares and interdicta popularia, while also verifying how some of its cornerstones persist even in contemporary reflections relating to the management of public heritage, particularly cultural heritage.
Similarly, within the framework of the teaching it will be possible to analyze the regulatory interventions of republican and imperial institutions aimed at safeguarding urban decorum, the natural environment, and the agrarian context; interventions that, in addition to sometimes still proving relevant in their informing principles, conceal a valuable balancing effort between the interests of individuals and those of the community. Alongside them, the emergence of figures deputed to safeguard the aesthetics, ornamentation, functionality and healthfulness of urban and nonurban places will shed light on the tasks entrusted to them, and on the evolution of the instruments of care and protection of assets relevant to the community.
Thanks to the knowledge acquired in the course of the lectures, students will be able to grasp the fundamental points of the evolution of the system of protection accorded to the field of culture-which, starting from the Roman experience, will be projected with new impulses into the Middle Ages and the modern age, finally acquiring its present form-by fully understanding its rationality and reasonableness, as well as its informing principles.
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Educational objectives In line with the objectives of the CdS, the teaching aims to develop, in students, an acute vision multidisciplinary view of the field of cultural heritage, through the analysis of new perspectives of research and valorization of antiquity through the adoption of interpretative models grounded in Roman law.
In the course of the lectures, students will be able to verify how the connection between the notions of Roman law and the great ancient archaeological heritage constitutes a source of interesting new data on past civilizations and their history, and enables the elaboration of new models of valorization capable of impacting, both culturally and economically, contemporary society.
The study of Roman law will prove fundamental in order to know the function, and the real social value, of ancient res and loca, the study of which is often limited to historical or aesthetic notions; with such critical awareness, students will acquire the necessary skills to develop projects with a multidisciplinary declination, which take into account the ever-increasing and varied demand for information posed by the general public for archaeological sites.
During the course of the lectures, students will also be able to enter into the merits of projects already underway, which have as their lowest common denominator precisely the combination of Roman law and cultural heritage: Sapienza University of Rome is in fact engaged, together with various cultural entities such as the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum, in the realization of numerous projects in which Roman Law contributes to enriching the heritage of knowledge disseminated to the general public, complementing with a judicious component the cultural offer of archaeological, artistic, architectural and literary matrix.
Within the framework of the above initiatives, there is also the first National Edition achieved by Sapienza, admitted for funding by the MIC in 2023, which will edit translation and commentary of the texts of the Gromatici Veteres; through the analytical study of the heritage of information betrayed by the land surveyors, it will be possible to realize new models of landscape enhancement, particularly of the agrarian one.
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