Lesson 05 -- 2024-10-10

More early laws: ban on trade in military equipment and shipbuilding timber with the Saracens (971); ban on raising riots in the Palace (998). Linguistic borrowings from neighbouring areas and trading partners often are false friends, receiving an independent meaning in the Venetian language. The form of legislation, halfway between contract and impersonal obligation. Early signs of the principle of personal responsibility for crimes. Penalties preferably in the form of fines rather than corporal punishment. Factions made by groups of affiliated families vying for power; parties with programs based on principles only rose during the French revolution. The Venetian priest-notaries writing both private deeds (contracts, last wills...) and acts of government. The long fight against the Adriatic pirates. Competition with the Genoese. Three types of fontego: caravanserai along land trade routes, semi-extraterritorial area granted by treaty to a nation on a harbour, public warehouse for stores of cereals.