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Genealogies of Legal Vision

Genealogies of Legal Vision

Author: Peter Goodrich; Valerie Hayaert
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415749060

Published In: June 2015
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Hardback Edition ISBN: 9780415749077

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This collection focuses on the history of legal emblems and the genealogy of law’s visual structures. The growing interest in law and the visual has tended to focus in a somewhat lazy fashion upon film and law, rather than addressing the actual history of law’s regimes of visual control.

But early modern lawyers, civilian and common alike, developed their very own ars iuris or art of law. A variety of legal disciplines always relied in part upon the use of visual representations, upon images and statuary to convey authority and sovereign norm.

Military, religious, administrative and legal images found juridical codification and expression in collections of signs of office, in heraldic codes, in genealogical devices, and then finally in the juridical invention in the mid-sixteenth century of the legal emblem book.

This book traces the complex lineage of the legal emblem and argues that the mens emblematica of the humanist lawyers was the inauguration of a visiocratic regime that continues in significant part into the present and multiple technologies of vision.

Bringing together leading experts on the history of legal emblems to address the critical question of why it was lawyers who authored the emblemata, and correlatively, what was the relation and role of these visual depictions of norms to the practice and performance of law, this collection provides a ground-breaking account of the long relationship between visibility, meaning and normativity.

Valerie Hayaert, Legal Emblems inserted in the Corpus Juris Civilis

Peter Goodrich, The Evidence of Things not Seen

Paul Raffield, Metamorphosis, Mythography, and the Nature of English Law

Anselm Haverkamp, On Emblems: Iconic Difference

Bradin Cormack, The Emblem of Emblems: A Theory of the Frontispiece

Agnes Guideroni, The heart and the law in the balance

Christian Biet, The Interpretation of Emblems

Piyel Haldar, Tongue and Eye

Alick M McLean, Don't Screw with the Law: Visual and Spatial Defenses against Judicial and Political Corruption in Communal Italy

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Bill Eggington, Crime Shows: CSI in Habsburg Spain

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