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Project

Visual idea(l)s of Law & Justice: A legal, art & cultural historical inquiry into the iconology of Belgian law (1795-1914)

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

3F012815

Duration

01 October 2015 → 30 September 2019

Funding

Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Dirk Heirbaut

Fellow

Stefan Huygebaert

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- History
- Art studies and sciences
Social sciences
- Metalaw

Keywords

Belgium long nineteenth century legal iconography and iconology legal history

Project description

This research scrutinzes the top down communication of the notions of law, as an ideal, and justice, as one of the means to reach that ideal, from the legal and political elite towards the population via art and iconography. The focus is on Belgian legal iconography during the long nineteenth century.

English

Dutch

English

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