Lady Justice: An Anatomy of Allegory

Valérie Hayaert

Lady Justice: An Anatomy of Allegory leaves conventional readings of this pivotal figure in European legal history far behind. Hayaert’s study brings together an analysis of thousands of images from the period 1400 – 1600, many of them previously overlooked, including artwork, frontispieces, legal texts, sculptures and statues in public spaces and in court buildings scattered across six countries. Lady Justice is taken apart and considered afresh - organ by organ, limb by limb, digit by digit, making a case for a treatment of allegory in all its complexity, ambiguity and affective force.

This unique interdisciplinary study exceeds the iconographic orthodoxy of art historians and the reductive interpretations of legal historians alike. Setting aside styles and schools, ranging widely across time and space, Hayaert identifies Lady Justice as the seat of law’s conscience, an archetype of the judge’s daimon, and an affective, numinous address to all who, over the course of seven centuries, have found themselves moved by her redolent and inextinguishable presence.

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Dedication
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List of figures
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Introduction
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1 - Images of Justice
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2 - The paradoxes of Lady Justice’s blindfold
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3 - Lady Justice’s fingers: gesture and meaning
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4 - Lady Justice’s posture: sitting, standing or walking?
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5 - Lady Justice and the judge’s body: maimed hands, bare knee
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6 - Justitia’s body movements: a sensual lesson in symbolic fascinatio
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7 - Lady Justice’s fragility
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Epilogue: why has Lady Justice survived until now?
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Bibliography
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Index nominum
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of figures
pp ix-xix

Acknowledgements
pp xx-xxii

Introduction
pp 1-31

1 - Images of Justice
pp 32-69

2 - The paradoxes of Lady Justice’s blindfold
pp 70-105

3 - Lady Justice’s fingers: gesture and meaning
pp 106-137

4 - Lady Justice’s posture: sitting, standing or walking?
pp 138-184

5 - Lady Justice and the judge’s body: maimed hands, bare knee
pp 185-227

6 - Justitia’s body movements: a sensual lesson in symbolic fascinatio
pp 228-274

7 - Lady Justice’s fragility
pp 275-317

Epilogue: why has Lady Justice survived until now?
pp 318-336

Bibliography
pp 337-360

Index nominum
pp 361-366

Index rerum
pp 367-370

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