The words of majesty. Notes about the lexicon of the normative sources of Norman Europe
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Abstract
The essay analyses the topic of majesty in Sicilian Norman legislation, rereading it in a comparative perspective with the contemporary sources of the English Norman Kingdom. The comparison points out the use of a common lexicon of the concept of potestas. It can’t be ascribed only to Sicilian kings but, on the contrary, circulated in Europe before the foundation of the same Norman Regna.
Keywords
- majesty
- legislative sources
- Norman systems
- Europe
- Middle Ages
