Moneta e cultura giuridica : Un brocardo di Azzone nella costruzione del diritto pecuniario medievale

Abstract

This paper gives an account of the medieval legal theories on coinage and money in the Glossators’ era, and especially of the role played by a brocard of the jurist Azo (12th-13th century) in the elaboration of this theories. The matter is not unknown to the scholarship, but the scope of the legal contribution to a monetary thought has been underestimated so far. This article seeks to re-evaluate the Glossators’ contribution on coinage starting from the textual reconstruction and the edition of Azo’s brocard, then stressing its importance to the developing of a legal monetary thought.