General Outline
Wednesday April, 7: General introduction to the theme ‘Law and Iconography’
Thursday April, 8: The representation of ‘justice’ and ‘law’ in court rooms through the ages
Friday April, 9: The image of judge, advocate and proctor: exaltation and criticism…
Readings
1) As general introduction to the ‘law and arts/iconography’ theme:
Christine HAIGHT FARLEY, Imagining the law, in: A. SARAT, M. ANDERSON & C.O. FRANK (eds.), Law and the Humanities. An introduction, Cambridge, University Press, 2010, 292-312.
2) For some medieval examples:
Susan L’ENGLE, Legal iconography, in: L’ENGLE, S. and GIBBS, R. (eds.), Illuminating the Law. Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections (Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum 3 November – 16 December 2001), London, 2001.
3) Dennis E. CURTIS and Judith RESNIK, Images of Justice, in “Yale Law Review”, 96, 1986-87, 1727-1772 (also available on Heinonline).
4) Georges MARTYN, Painted Exempla Iustitiae in the Southern Netherlands, in SCHULZE, R. (ed.), Symbolische Kommunikation voor Gericht in der Frühen Neuzeit (= Schriften zur Europäischen Rechts- und Verfassungsgeschichte, LI), Berlin, 2006, 335-356.
Georges Martyn's CV
Georges Martyn (Avelgem (Belgium), 1966) studied Law (1984-89) and Medieval Studies (1989-91) in Leuven and received his Ph.D. in Legal History at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1996. He has been an ‘advocaat’ (barrister/lawyer) between 1992 and 2008 and is a substitute justice of the peace in Kortrijk (B) since 1999. He is professor at the University of Ghent (Department of Jurisprudence and Legal History) since 1999. He teaches ‘History of Politics and Public Law’, ‘General Introduction to Belgian Law’ and ‘Legal Methodology’. His scientific articles consider the history of legislation in the Netherlands in early modern times, the reception of Roman law, the legal professions, the evolution of the sources of the law in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and legal iconography (www.rechtsgeschiedenis.be).
I was impressionta evolution that took in painting the picture of law and iustitia.
ReplyDeleterepresented the beginning with a sword in his hand as if to signal the passage of the divine in the hands of those judges, then represented as a tree symbol and guardian of certainty of knowledge that is there for centuries and knows what happened, we saw the figure of a tree surrounded by barriers and what were depicted in the courts and the delimitation within this indicated the absence of violence, another example S. Louis.
Furthermore, some representations were taken from the Egyptian tradition as the scale.
subsequently it has come to represent not with a woman but as a man with a sword and in the turtle, a symbol of slowness and calm that is the right justice. later with a bandage over his eyes so as not to see the rich and poor and unable to judge without being influenced by the firm, but the bandage if justice should be impartial in itself, I think it is irrelevant because even without such a good court is able to judge the individual case without being influenced by what he sees.
Finally, justice has been attached to the concept of peace.
Monica Di Silvestro