Books by Cristina Costantini
Papers by Cristina Costantini
The Cardozo Electronic Law Bulletin - Global Frontiers of Comparative Law, 2018
Subliminal Tensions in Law and Literature, 2013
Biblioteca Della Liberta, 2009
Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, 2014
Polemos Rivista Semestrale Di Diritto Politica E Cultura, 2010
Methods of Comparative Law, 2012
Representing Sovereignty in Renaissance England. Pictorial Metaphors and the Visibility of Law. In R. Sherwin, A. Wagner (eds.) Law, Culture and Visual Studies, Springer Netherlands: 79-103, 2013
This chapter investigates some of the multifarious ways used to represent and to communicate what... more This chapter investigates some of the multifarious ways used to represent and to communicate what the body of law is and how the law has to be understood. The analysis is based on an interdisciplinary approach, aimed to interpret political concepts and legal practices according to the more recent results of cognitive science. Pictorial metaphors are described as the outcomes of a general mode of thought operating in various spheres of human cognition expressed through pictorial languages. In the background to the recognition theory of depiction and to pragmatic research about contextual factors of evaluation, the cognitive characteristics of pictorial metaphors as well as a sketch of their understanding are given, and their persuasive potential and their role in shaping organizations are hinted at. Examples of pictorial metaphors in the Renaissance England iconography of law are then examined through these analytical tools. In particular, dress of law and allegorical portraits of sovereignty are considered. The purpose of this study is to discover the bulk of symbols and signs used to shape the English Legal Tradition and to justify the inner structure of its proper narrative. The aesthetics of Renaissance Common Law is scrutinized beyond the conventional accounts with the aim to bring to the surface the contending images sustaining antagonistic claims to sovereignty.
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Seminar:
SCULT18 TUESDAY 2.9.2014 11.00–13.00 ROOM A6
SCULPTING THE OTHER: INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN LAW, LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Convenors:
Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Chiara Battisti, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy
Sidia Fiorato, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy
The purpose of this seminar is to investigate the relationship between law and the Other in English literature and culture. Law has developed historically around figures of denial, prohibition and interdiction; juridical language aims at clearing reality of all its contradictions, reconducing it to univocal categories, defined roles and behaviour. However, the repressed Other threatens inexorably to return and it threatens to disrupt the order and reason of the legal system. The seminar will take into consideration the above-described issues from different theoretical perspectives fostering interdisciplinary approaches in the following fields: law and literature, visual arts, film studies, performing arts, ecocriticism.