The Violence of the Law: Aesthetics of Justice in Early Modern England
In the twenty-first century, as in the sixteenth, a blindfolded woman holding a sword and scales personifies justice; her blindfold conveys impartiality, her scales evenhandedness, and her sword the authority to compel obedience. In pre-democratic early modern England, Justice’s iconography was ofte...
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ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University
2013
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