Editors:
- Features over one hundred colour photographs of well-known and less well-known works of art
- Includes contributions on western iconology, from Scandinavia to Italy, and even India
- Written by top scholars in the interdisciplinary field of ‘law and art’
- Allows jurists to broaden their horizons, and art historians to gain new perspectives on law and justice
Part of the book series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (IUSGENT, volume 66)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Law, Justice and Art in Historical Perspective
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Moralising Law and Justice Representations in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Era
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Lawyers and Justices: Their Books, Their Work, Their Symbols
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Criminal Justice: Art, Object and Locus
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About this book
Reviews
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Art, Ghent Legal History Institute, FWO (Research Foundation Flanders), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Stefan Huygebaert
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Ghent Legal History Institute, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Georges Martyn
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Flemish research centre for the arts of the Burgundian Netherlands, Musea Brugge, Bruges, Belgium
Vanessa Paumen
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Centre de recherches en histoire du droit et des institutions, Université Saint-Louis, Brussels, Belgium
Eric Bousmar
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Centre d’histoire du droit et de la justice, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Xavier Rousseaux
About the editors
Georges Martyn studied Law (1984-89) and Medieval Studies (1989-91) in Leuven (Belgium) and obtained a PhD degree in Law at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1996, with a dissertation on private law legislation in the early modern Netherlands. He has been an ‘advocaat’ (barrister/lawyer) between 1992 and 2008 at the bar of Kortrijk, is now honorary member of the Ghent bar, and is a substitute justice of the peace. He is full professor at the Law Faculty of Ghent University, teaching ‘History of Politics and Public Law’, ‘General Introduction to Belgian Law’ and ‘Law & the Humanities’. His publications deal with legal history in the Netherlands in the Early Modern Era, 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 and iconology. He is a member of the Belgian Royal Commission for the Edition of the Old Law, the Flemish editor-in-chief of the Belgian-Dutch legal history review Pro Memorie and co-editor of the series Studies in the History of Law and Justice.
Vanessa Paumen is an art historian focused on Northern Renaissance art. Since 2010, she has been the coordinator of The Flemish research centre for the arts in the Burgundian Netherlands at the Groeningemuseum in Bruges (Belgium). Its mission is to initiate, facilitate, stimulate and disseminate research related to Flemish art of the 15th-16th centuries. She was curator of the exhibition "The art of law. Three centuries of justice depicted" at the Groeningemuseum (27 October 2016 – 5 February 2017) and author/editor of the accompanying catalogue, published by Lannoo Publishers, 2016.
Eric Bousmar is full professeur at the Université Saint-Louis in Brussels, where he is co-director of the Centre de Recherches en Histoire du Droit et des Institutions. He has got a doctoral degree in history from the Université catholique de Louvain, and a degree in medieval studies from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He mainly publishes on power, society and mentality in the Southern Low Countries, particularly in the Burgundian era (XV-XVI c.), as well as on the art of history writing throughout the ages, stressing the interaction of literature and history, especially in relation to the Burgundian State, Belgium and Brabant.
Xavier Rousseaux is research director at the National Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS) and professor at the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Centre for Law & Justice History. Working extensively on of the history of crime and justice, in 2007-2012, he coordinated the BELSPO Network Justice and Society, and Justice and Populations. The Belgian experience in international Perspective, 1795-1950.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Art of Law
Book Subtitle: Artistic Representations and Iconography of Law and Justice in Context, from the Middle Ages to the First World War
Editors: Stefan Huygebaert, Georges Martyn, Vanessa Paumen, Eric Bousmar, Xavier Rousseaux
Series Title: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90787-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90786-4Published: 10 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08100-3Published: 11 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90787-1Published: 27 September 2018
Series ISSN: 1534-6781
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9902
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 458
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 92 illustrations in colour
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law , Cultural Studies