Sulla storiografia giuridica europea dell’Ottocento in tema di diritto longobardo

The relationship between Lombard and Roman law has been the centre of important debates among Italian and German scholars during the 19th century. In particular, the attention drawn by the celebrated writer Alessandro Manzoni on the condition of the conquered people under Lombard rule gave rise to scholarly quarrels, which were sometimes biased by the national pride heightened by the contemporary political background. Other European legal historians, though, have all but rarely entered into such questions, whose nationalistic pattern was clearly perceived even at the time: few of the French followers of the German historical school of law treated the subject, albeit significantly, and only a shallow reflection of it touched the Angloamerican tradition of historical studies