Lady Justice : : An Anatomy of Allegory / / Valérie Hayaert.
Dismembers and remembers the sensual and spiritual body of Lady Justice in a wholly novel interpretation of the optical allegory of IustitiaPresents an original theory of the blindfold on JusticeIncludes case studies of the allegorical significance of all of the attributes of JusticeDraws on early m...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023] 2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Law, Justice and the Visual
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Images of Justice
- 2 The paradoxes of Lady Justice's blindfold
- 3 Lady Justice's fingers: gesture and meaning
- 4 Lady Justice's posture: sitting, standing or walking?
- 5 Lady Justice and the judge's body: maimed hands, bare knee
- 6 Justitia's body movements: a sensual lesson in symbolic fascinatio
- 7 Lady Justice's fragility
- Epilogue: why has Lady Justice survived until now?
- Bibliography
- Index nominum
- Index rerum