- Editorial:
- DYKINSON
- Año de edición:
- 2019
- Materia:
- Historia
- ISBN:
- 978-84-1324-239-2
- Páginas:
- 588
- Encuadernación:
- Rústica
HISTORY OF LAW AND OTHER HUMANITIES
VIEWS OF THE LEGAL WORLD ACROSS THE TIME
AMOROSI, VIRGINIA / MASSIMO MINALE, VALERIO
The collection of essays presented here examines the links forged through the ages between the realm of law and the expressions of the humanistic culture. We collected thirty-five essays by international scholars and organized them into sections of ten chapters based around ten different themes. Two main perspectives emerged: in some articles the topic relates to the conventional approach of law and/in humanities (iconography, literature, architecture, cinema, music), other articles are about more traditional connections between fields of knowledge (in particular, philosophy, political experiences, didactics). We decided not to confine authors to one particular methodological framework, preferring instead to promote historiographical openness. Our intention was to create a patchwork of different approaches, with each article drawing on a different area of culture to provide a new angle to the history being told. The variety of authorial nationalities gives the collection a multicultural character and the breadth of the chronological period it deals with ?from antiquity to the contemporary age? adds further
