Justice Gone Awry in Medieval Art and Culture
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
Organizer Name
Toy-Fung Tung
Organizer Affiliation
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Presider Name
Toy-Fung Tung
Paper Title 1
Is It Unlawful for a Man to Mourn for His Wife? Widowhood, Misogyny,and the Double Standard in the Lamentations of "Matheolus"
Presenter 1 Name
Linda Burke
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Elmhurst College
Paper Title 2
Madonna Isabella Astride Lambertuccio's Horse: Setting the Pace in Decameron 7.6
Presenter 2 Name
Margaret Escher
Presenter 2 Affiliation
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Paper Title 3
The Madonna, a Medieval Advocate for Justice: An Examination through Art, Song, and Prayer
Presenter 3 Name
Marilyn Gasparini
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Independent Scholar
Start Date
11-5-2018 1:30 PM
Session Location
Sangren 1720
Description
How were miscarriages of justice portrayed in different medieval literary genres, and also in history, law, and the arts? Did the medieval portrayal of justice and injustice vary depending on genre conventions, and even differences within the same genre, for example the Tristan and Lancelot tales? What about works like Malory’s, Chaucer’s, and Christine de Pizan’s that cross genre boundaries? In what way was the concept of justice affected by the polemical aims of historiography or the politics of law? How was injustice portrayed in art versus literary works? This interdisciplinary panel queries whether a concept of ideal justice broadly prevailed in medieval culture, or whether it belonged only to the domain of theologians and canon lawyers. Did the medieval portrayal of justice and injustice vary depending on genre conventions, and even differences within the same genre? In what way was the concept of justice affected by the polemical aims of historiography or the politics of law? Of special interest is the question of whether Foucault’s characterization of a “philosophico-juridical discourse” is substantiated in specific works and contexts from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth-century.
Alison (Ganze) Langdon
Justice Gone Awry in Medieval Art and Culture
Sangren 1720
How were miscarriages of justice portrayed in different medieval literary genres, and also in history, law, and the arts? Did the medieval portrayal of justice and injustice vary depending on genre conventions, and even differences within the same genre, for example the Tristan and Lancelot tales? What about works like Malory’s, Chaucer’s, and Christine de Pizan’s that cross genre boundaries? In what way was the concept of justice affected by the polemical aims of historiography or the politics of law? How was injustice portrayed in art versus literary works? This interdisciplinary panel queries whether a concept of ideal justice broadly prevailed in medieval culture, or whether it belonged only to the domain of theologians and canon lawyers. Did the medieval portrayal of justice and injustice vary depending on genre conventions, and even differences within the same genre? In what way was the concept of justice affected by the polemical aims of historiography or the politics of law? Of special interest is the question of whether Foucault’s characterization of a “philosophico-juridical discourse” is substantiated in specific works and contexts from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth-century.
Alison (Ganze) Langdon