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Thoroughly interdisciplinary in approach, this volume examines how
concepts such as the exercising of power, the distribution of
justice, and transgression against the law were treated in both
textual and pictorial terms in works produced and circulated in
medieval French manuscripts and early printed books. Analysing
texts ranging from romances, political allegories, chivalric
biographies, and catalogues of famous men and women, through
saints' lives, mystery plays and Books of Hours, to works of Roman,
canon and customary law, these studies offer new insights into the
diverse ways in which the language and imagery of politics and
justice permeated French culture, particularly in the later Middle
Ages. Organized around three closely related themes - the prince as
a just ruler, the figure of the judge, and the role of the queen in
relation to matters of justice - the issues addressed in these
studies, such as what constitutes a just war, what treatment should
be meted out to prisoners, what personal qualities are needed for
the role of lawgiver, and what limits are placed on women's
participation in judicial processes, are ones that are still the
subject of debate today. What the contributors show above all is
the degree of political engagement on the part of writers and
artists responsible for cultural production in this period. With
their textual strategies of exemplification, allegorization, and
satirical deprecation, and their visual strategies of hierarchical
ordering, spatial organization and symbolic allusion, these figures
aimed to show that the pen and paintbrush could aspire to being as
mighty as the sword wielded by Lady Justice herself.
Thoroughly interdisciplinary in approach, this volume examines how
concepts such as the exercising of power, the distribution of
justice, and transgression against the law were treated in both
textual and pictorial terms in works produced and circulated in
medieval French manuscripts and early printed books. Analysing
texts ranging from romances, political allegories, chivalric
biographies, and catalogues of famous men and women, through
saints' lives, mystery plays and Books of Hours, to works of Roman,
canon and customary law, these studies offer new insights into the
diverse ways in which the language and imagery of politics and
justice permeated French culture, particularly in the later Middle
Ages. Organized around three closely related themes - the prince as
a just ruler, the figure of the judge, and the role of the queen in
relation to matters of justice - the issues addressed in these
studies, such as what constitutes a just war, what treatment should
be meted out to prisoners, what personal qualities are needed for
the role of lawgiver, and what limits are placed on women's
participation in judicial processes, are ones that are still the
subject of debate today. What the contributors show above all is
the degree of political engagement on the part of writers and
artists responsible for cultural production in this period. With
their textual strategies of exemplification, allegorization, and
satirical deprecation, and their visual strategies of hierarchical
ordering, spatial organization and symbolic allusion, these figures
aimed to show that the pen and paintbrush could aspire to being as
mighty as the sword wielded by Lady Justice herself.
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