IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 1117: Emotion and the Law
Wednesday 12 July 2006, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Madeline H. Caviness, Department of Art & Art History, Tufts University, Massachusetts |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Daniel Smail, Department of History, Harvard University |
| Paper 1117-a | All the Court's a Stage: Acting out the Law (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1117-b | The Face(s) of the Law in the Sachsenspiegel (Language: English) Index terms: Law |
| Paper 1117-c | Picturing Emotion and Just Punishments: Contrition or Martyrdom? (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Gender Studies, Law |
| Abstract | Three scholars of high medieval illustrated law books will consider and debate the performative roles of representations of emotion. The interaction of lawyers, judges, and plaintiffs is ordered and posed in all the manuscripts under consideration, even though they deal with highly charged events, such as murder hanging, and exile. Whereas in the books of canon and Roman law many figures pictorially evoke a wide range of emotions, those in the secular book known as the Sachsenspiegel are generally without affect. In two German books of town law, executioners rather than their victims exhibit violent body language and contorted faces. |