Lady Justice
Lady Justice
An Anatomy of Allegory
Hayaert, Valerie
Edinburgh University Press
12/2025
400
Mole
Inglês
9781474487498
15 a 20 dias
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Introduction
Periodization; Terminus ante quem; Justitia and her siblings: the four cardinal virtues; Justitia's avatars: an art of gestural ethics; Lady Justice's polyonomy; Images in movement; Justicia and Vengeance; Before the Law; Sources; The two faces of Justice; Allegory as a medium for judicial reform; Interpretative plurality; Precellence' of women?An ethics of affects?
Chapter One: Images of Justice
Ekphrasis: Gregor Bersman; Ekphrastic epigrams of Justice; Goddess Justitia and the paradoxes of icones symbolicae; The Divine nature of Justice; A Judicial Ekphrasis; Bersman's emblemology: The Leipzig context; Justitia quadrata; Justice as Puritas; The Lorica Iustitiae; Books, Scales and Cornucopia; The Sword: Alienum Opus Facio; Bodily synecdoches; Conclusion; Appendix: Translation of Gregor Bersman's Imago Justitiae
Chapter Two: The paradoxes of Lady Justice's blindfold
The allegory as a composite body; A phenomenological approach to allegory; Early modern lawyers and their interpretation of the blindfold; Clarity and ecstasy; Is the blindfold an attribute? Clear-sighted Justice in Greek and Roman Antiquity; Sebastian Brandt and the fool blindfolding Justice; An astute interpretation by Pierre Ayrault; Jacob de Cater's emblematic verses; (Extra) Sensory Perception; The diaphanous blindfold; In praise of blindness; Continuing objections to the portrait of a blindfolded justice; Sculpting Justice: The co-existence of a clear-sighted and blindfolded Justice; The polysemy of the blindfold; Andre de Nesmond's Remonstrance; The Eye of the Law; Conclusion
Chapter Three: Lady Justice's Fingers: Gesture and Meaning
Gestural expressivity; The extended middle-finger as part of a mnemonic technique; Transitory Hieroglyphics; The horn gesture as apotropaic; Deictic index and judicial action; Gripping and handling; Hidden or discarded scales; Power-grip and precision-handling; The power-grip pattern as a visual rhetoric for a firm metrological order; Holding the scales: an archetype of honest weighing; The watchful eye combined with precision-handling; Conclusion
Chapter Four: Lady Justice's Posture: Sitting, Standing or Walking?
Judicial temperament; Sitting Judges; The Legal Status of the Sitting Judge; Sedendo et Dormiendo? The Judge as "Throne-Sharer of Dike"; Lady Justice's Throne; Standing Justices- The Myth of Astraea; Astraea as an Allegorical Body in Motion; Astraea as Justitia Victrix; The Departure of Astraea from Earth; Astraea, The Diva Fugax; The Countless Returns of the Goddess Astraea; Astraea before the Peasants; Seditious Lady Justice; Walking Justices; Fountains of Justice: Spatial Location and Communal Function; Reformed Cities: A New Vision of Justice; Divine Justice and Earthly Rulers; Lady Justice on the Forum; Conclusion: In the Orbit of Dame Justice
Chapter Five: Lady Justice and the Judge's Body: Maimed Hands, Bare Knee
The Effigy of the Amputated Judge; A case study: Lady Justice standing in front of the penitent judge; The Maimed Hands of the Bailiff; The Missing Hands: A Shaming Ritual? A Double Effigy of Justice; Marten de Vos' Adorodokia; Clemency; Knee Gestures; The Knee as 'Seat of Clemency'; Lady Justice's knee-gesture as an index of clemency; Justus Oldenkop's frontispiece as a judicial manifesto; The Bare Knee as a Sign of Virtue in General; George Reverdy's Allegory of Injustice; Nudity; Justitia meretrix: Lady Justice as a courtesan;Vanquishing Nudes; Conclusion
Chapter Six: Justitia's Body Movements: A Sensual Lesson in Symbolic Fascinatio
A fascinating introduction; Triangle; Justitia's Spatial Apparatus; Mechanical Justice; Kisses; The erotic kiss;The kiss in theology; The kiss in law; The kiss in politics; The kiss in economy; Polyglot and mystical kisses; Conclusion
Chapter Seven: Lady Justice's Fragility
The technology of inflicting death; Bruegel's Justitia; Sleeping Justice; Justitia's dispassion in the stage-management of capital punishment; The two swords of Lady Justice; Justice assaulted; Justice raped; Justice shackled and disheveled; The Michelfeldt Tapestry; Justitia inter arma; Justitia Vulnerata;Oppressed Justice; Justitia at the Crossroads
Epilogue: Why has Lady Justice survived until now?
Periodization; Terminus ante quem; Justitia and her siblings: the four cardinal virtues; Justitia's avatars: an art of gestural ethics; Lady Justice's polyonomy; Images in movement; Justicia and Vengeance; Before the Law; Sources; The two faces of Justice; Allegory as a medium for judicial reform; Interpretative plurality; Precellence' of women?An ethics of affects?
Chapter One: Images of Justice
Ekphrasis: Gregor Bersman; Ekphrastic epigrams of Justice; Goddess Justitia and the paradoxes of icones symbolicae; The Divine nature of Justice; A Judicial Ekphrasis; Bersman's emblemology: The Leipzig context; Justitia quadrata; Justice as Puritas; The Lorica Iustitiae; Books, Scales and Cornucopia; The Sword: Alienum Opus Facio; Bodily synecdoches; Conclusion; Appendix: Translation of Gregor Bersman's Imago Justitiae
Chapter Two: The paradoxes of Lady Justice's blindfold
The allegory as a composite body; A phenomenological approach to allegory; Early modern lawyers and their interpretation of the blindfold; Clarity and ecstasy; Is the blindfold an attribute? Clear-sighted Justice in Greek and Roman Antiquity; Sebastian Brandt and the fool blindfolding Justice; An astute interpretation by Pierre Ayrault; Jacob de Cater's emblematic verses; (Extra) Sensory Perception; The diaphanous blindfold; In praise of blindness; Continuing objections to the portrait of a blindfolded justice; Sculpting Justice: The co-existence of a clear-sighted and blindfolded Justice; The polysemy of the blindfold; Andre de Nesmond's Remonstrance; The Eye of the Law; Conclusion
Chapter Three: Lady Justice's Fingers: Gesture and Meaning
Gestural expressivity; The extended middle-finger as part of a mnemonic technique; Transitory Hieroglyphics; The horn gesture as apotropaic; Deictic index and judicial action; Gripping and handling; Hidden or discarded scales; Power-grip and precision-handling; The power-grip pattern as a visual rhetoric for a firm metrological order; Holding the scales: an archetype of honest weighing; The watchful eye combined with precision-handling; Conclusion
Chapter Four: Lady Justice's Posture: Sitting, Standing or Walking?
Judicial temperament; Sitting Judges; The Legal Status of the Sitting Judge; Sedendo et Dormiendo? The Judge as "Throne-Sharer of Dike"; Lady Justice's Throne; Standing Justices- The Myth of Astraea; Astraea as an Allegorical Body in Motion; Astraea as Justitia Victrix; The Departure of Astraea from Earth; Astraea, The Diva Fugax; The Countless Returns of the Goddess Astraea; Astraea before the Peasants; Seditious Lady Justice; Walking Justices; Fountains of Justice: Spatial Location and Communal Function; Reformed Cities: A New Vision of Justice; Divine Justice and Earthly Rulers; Lady Justice on the Forum; Conclusion: In the Orbit of Dame Justice
Chapter Five: Lady Justice and the Judge's Body: Maimed Hands, Bare Knee
The Effigy of the Amputated Judge; A case study: Lady Justice standing in front of the penitent judge; The Maimed Hands of the Bailiff; The Missing Hands: A Shaming Ritual? A Double Effigy of Justice; Marten de Vos' Adorodokia; Clemency; Knee Gestures; The Knee as 'Seat of Clemency'; Lady Justice's knee-gesture as an index of clemency; Justus Oldenkop's frontispiece as a judicial manifesto; The Bare Knee as a Sign of Virtue in General; George Reverdy's Allegory of Injustice; Nudity; Justitia meretrix: Lady Justice as a courtesan;Vanquishing Nudes; Conclusion
Chapter Six: Justitia's Body Movements: A Sensual Lesson in Symbolic Fascinatio
A fascinating introduction; Triangle; Justitia's Spatial Apparatus; Mechanical Justice; Kisses; The erotic kiss;The kiss in theology; The kiss in law; The kiss in politics; The kiss in economy; Polyglot and mystical kisses; Conclusion
Chapter Seven: Lady Justice's Fragility
The technology of inflicting death; Bruegel's Justitia; Sleeping Justice; Justitia's dispassion in the stage-management of capital punishment; The two swords of Lady Justice; Justice assaulted; Justice raped; Justice shackled and disheveled; The Michelfeldt Tapestry; Justitia inter arma; Justitia Vulnerata;Oppressed Justice; Justitia at the Crossroads
Epilogue: Why has Lady Justice survived until now?
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cultural studies; jurisprudence; justice; law and the humanities; legal aesthetics; legal history; legal philosophy; legal symbolism; visual allegory; Visual legal studies; visual studies
Introduction
Periodization; Terminus ante quem; Justitia and her siblings: the four cardinal virtues; Justitia's avatars: an art of gestural ethics; Lady Justice's polyonomy; Images in movement; Justicia and Vengeance; Before the Law; Sources; The two faces of Justice; Allegory as a medium for judicial reform; Interpretative plurality; Precellence' of women?An ethics of affects?
Chapter One: Images of Justice
Ekphrasis: Gregor Bersman; Ekphrastic epigrams of Justice; Goddess Justitia and the paradoxes of icones symbolicae; The Divine nature of Justice; A Judicial Ekphrasis; Bersman's emblemology: The Leipzig context; Justitia quadrata; Justice as Puritas; The Lorica Iustitiae; Books, Scales and Cornucopia; The Sword: Alienum Opus Facio; Bodily synecdoches; Conclusion; Appendix: Translation of Gregor Bersman's Imago Justitiae
Chapter Two: The paradoxes of Lady Justice's blindfold
The allegory as a composite body; A phenomenological approach to allegory; Early modern lawyers and their interpretation of the blindfold; Clarity and ecstasy; Is the blindfold an attribute? Clear-sighted Justice in Greek and Roman Antiquity; Sebastian Brandt and the fool blindfolding Justice; An astute interpretation by Pierre Ayrault; Jacob de Cater's emblematic verses; (Extra) Sensory Perception; The diaphanous blindfold; In praise of blindness; Continuing objections to the portrait of a blindfolded justice; Sculpting Justice: The co-existence of a clear-sighted and blindfolded Justice; The polysemy of the blindfold; Andre de Nesmond's Remonstrance; The Eye of the Law; Conclusion
Chapter Three: Lady Justice's Fingers: Gesture and Meaning
Gestural expressivity; The extended middle-finger as part of a mnemonic technique; Transitory Hieroglyphics; The horn gesture as apotropaic; Deictic index and judicial action; Gripping and handling; Hidden or discarded scales; Power-grip and precision-handling; The power-grip pattern as a visual rhetoric for a firm metrological order; Holding the scales: an archetype of honest weighing; The watchful eye combined with precision-handling; Conclusion
Chapter Four: Lady Justice's Posture: Sitting, Standing or Walking?
Judicial temperament; Sitting Judges; The Legal Status of the Sitting Judge; Sedendo et Dormiendo? The Judge as "Throne-Sharer of Dike"; Lady Justice's Throne; Standing Justices- The Myth of Astraea; Astraea as an Allegorical Body in Motion; Astraea as Justitia Victrix; The Departure of Astraea from Earth; Astraea, The Diva Fugax; The Countless Returns of the Goddess Astraea; Astraea before the Peasants; Seditious Lady Justice; Walking Justices; Fountains of Justice: Spatial Location and Communal Function; Reformed Cities: A New Vision of Justice; Divine Justice and Earthly Rulers; Lady Justice on the Forum; Conclusion: In the Orbit of Dame Justice
Chapter Five: Lady Justice and the Judge's Body: Maimed Hands, Bare Knee
The Effigy of the Amputated Judge; A case study: Lady Justice standing in front of the penitent judge; The Maimed Hands of the Bailiff; The Missing Hands: A Shaming Ritual? A Double Effigy of Justice; Marten de Vos' Adorodokia; Clemency; Knee Gestures; The Knee as 'Seat of Clemency'; Lady Justice's knee-gesture as an index of clemency; Justus Oldenkop's frontispiece as a judicial manifesto; The Bare Knee as a Sign of Virtue in General; George Reverdy's Allegory of Injustice; Nudity; Justitia meretrix: Lady Justice as a courtesan;Vanquishing Nudes; Conclusion
Chapter Six: Justitia's Body Movements: A Sensual Lesson in Symbolic Fascinatio
A fascinating introduction; Triangle; Justitia's Spatial Apparatus; Mechanical Justice; Kisses; The erotic kiss;The kiss in theology; The kiss in law; The kiss in politics; The kiss in economy; Polyglot and mystical kisses; Conclusion
Chapter Seven: Lady Justice's Fragility
The technology of inflicting death; Bruegel's Justitia; Sleeping Justice; Justitia's dispassion in the stage-management of capital punishment; The two swords of Lady Justice; Justice assaulted; Justice raped; Justice shackled and disheveled; The Michelfeldt Tapestry; Justitia inter arma; Justitia Vulnerata;Oppressed Justice; Justitia at the Crossroads
Epilogue: Why has Lady Justice survived until now?
Periodization; Terminus ante quem; Justitia and her siblings: the four cardinal virtues; Justitia's avatars: an art of gestural ethics; Lady Justice's polyonomy; Images in movement; Justicia and Vengeance; Before the Law; Sources; The two faces of Justice; Allegory as a medium for judicial reform; Interpretative plurality; Precellence' of women?An ethics of affects?
Chapter One: Images of Justice
Ekphrasis: Gregor Bersman; Ekphrastic epigrams of Justice; Goddess Justitia and the paradoxes of icones symbolicae; The Divine nature of Justice; A Judicial Ekphrasis; Bersman's emblemology: The Leipzig context; Justitia quadrata; Justice as Puritas; The Lorica Iustitiae; Books, Scales and Cornucopia; The Sword: Alienum Opus Facio; Bodily synecdoches; Conclusion; Appendix: Translation of Gregor Bersman's Imago Justitiae
Chapter Two: The paradoxes of Lady Justice's blindfold
The allegory as a composite body; A phenomenological approach to allegory; Early modern lawyers and their interpretation of the blindfold; Clarity and ecstasy; Is the blindfold an attribute? Clear-sighted Justice in Greek and Roman Antiquity; Sebastian Brandt and the fool blindfolding Justice; An astute interpretation by Pierre Ayrault; Jacob de Cater's emblematic verses; (Extra) Sensory Perception; The diaphanous blindfold; In praise of blindness; Continuing objections to the portrait of a blindfolded justice; Sculpting Justice: The co-existence of a clear-sighted and blindfolded Justice; The polysemy of the blindfold; Andre de Nesmond's Remonstrance; The Eye of the Law; Conclusion
Chapter Three: Lady Justice's Fingers: Gesture and Meaning
Gestural expressivity; The extended middle-finger as part of a mnemonic technique; Transitory Hieroglyphics; The horn gesture as apotropaic; Deictic index and judicial action; Gripping and handling; Hidden or discarded scales; Power-grip and precision-handling; The power-grip pattern as a visual rhetoric for a firm metrological order; Holding the scales: an archetype of honest weighing; The watchful eye combined with precision-handling; Conclusion
Chapter Four: Lady Justice's Posture: Sitting, Standing or Walking?
Judicial temperament; Sitting Judges; The Legal Status of the Sitting Judge; Sedendo et Dormiendo? The Judge as "Throne-Sharer of Dike"; Lady Justice's Throne; Standing Justices- The Myth of Astraea; Astraea as an Allegorical Body in Motion; Astraea as Justitia Victrix; The Departure of Astraea from Earth; Astraea, The Diva Fugax; The Countless Returns of the Goddess Astraea; Astraea before the Peasants; Seditious Lady Justice; Walking Justices; Fountains of Justice: Spatial Location and Communal Function; Reformed Cities: A New Vision of Justice; Divine Justice and Earthly Rulers; Lady Justice on the Forum; Conclusion: In the Orbit of Dame Justice
Chapter Five: Lady Justice and the Judge's Body: Maimed Hands, Bare Knee
The Effigy of the Amputated Judge; A case study: Lady Justice standing in front of the penitent judge; The Maimed Hands of the Bailiff; The Missing Hands: A Shaming Ritual? A Double Effigy of Justice; Marten de Vos' Adorodokia; Clemency; Knee Gestures; The Knee as 'Seat of Clemency'; Lady Justice's knee-gesture as an index of clemency; Justus Oldenkop's frontispiece as a judicial manifesto; The Bare Knee as a Sign of Virtue in General; George Reverdy's Allegory of Injustice; Nudity; Justitia meretrix: Lady Justice as a courtesan;Vanquishing Nudes; Conclusion
Chapter Six: Justitia's Body Movements: A Sensual Lesson in Symbolic Fascinatio
A fascinating introduction; Triangle; Justitia's Spatial Apparatus; Mechanical Justice; Kisses; The erotic kiss;The kiss in theology; The kiss in law; The kiss in politics; The kiss in economy; Polyglot and mystical kisses; Conclusion
Chapter Seven: Lady Justice's Fragility
The technology of inflicting death; Bruegel's Justitia; Sleeping Justice; Justitia's dispassion in the stage-management of capital punishment; The two swords of Lady Justice; Justice assaulted; Justice raped; Justice shackled and disheveled; The Michelfeldt Tapestry; Justitia inter arma; Justitia Vulnerata;Oppressed Justice; Justitia at the Crossroads
Epilogue: Why has Lady Justice survived until now?
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