TOWARDS THE COMMUNAL AUTONOMY

During the domination longobarda Agerola, combined Earth to Amalfi, had just baiulo with being able civil and criminal and surveillance on the swindles. Under normanno the Ruggiero one not only approached the autonomy, because its conserved also the period of infeudamento baiulo, as magistrate, but also like defensor. In fact these exercised competence on the civil suits, on the food prices, the observance of the weights and measures, on the respect of the penalties inflicted to the offenders.

In the period svevo, also surviving all this apparatus, the regal power made to feel with it assured the Frederic the Great absolutism. Of the agerolese autonomy it will come thrown the seed with the advent angioino, when Agerola has the first elect ones of the people to which Roberto d'Angiò will recognize, in 1339, the partial right to the administration. The elect ones will have only little tasks at the beginnig: the formation of the food regulations, the imposition of the excise taxes, the surveillance on the order, the guard of the actions private publics and, the release of licences and the imposition of collette for donated the monarchs to you. But they formed the civic parliament, that is the university.

In fact we find that in 1269, to the times of Carlo of Angiò, a document will come addressed to the “Universitati Ageroli”. Therefore like under Queen Giovanna I, towards the half of 1300, decisions, decrees and other norms they will come addressed to the University of Agerola.