Privileges and Immunities in a Sacramentalizing Order
This chapter outlines a "feudal transformation" in medieval Europe, which originality and creativity became activities to be protected encouraged through grants of legal privileges. A Venetian statute that many have seen as Europe's first patent law is here placed the context religious reforms overseen by Carolingian bishops rulers. The trajectory these traced development universities education, are linked, turn, an idealizing social vision morally binding force, drawing people together into communities promises oaths. With birth European profession, Roman Biblical traditions synthesized foundation for city-states, guilds, universities, with prebend system provides material support clerics various kinds. In city-state Venice, become basis transformation privileges, emphasizing value novelty providing early precursors later copyright law.
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