Legal iconography

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The Rechtsikonographie is a research field in the intersection between legal history and art history with references to Heraldry , right Archeology and legal folklore . The subject of your research is the description and interpretation of pictorial representations (paintings, reliefs, sculptures, graphics, woodcuts, etc.) that have a legal content. It is about symbolic objects at historical courts , illustrations in law books , allegories or paintings with legal scenes (such as coronations , enfeoffments , court proceedings or punishments ). Legal iconography is traditionally a field of research and a sub-subject of legal history, but is now carried out on an interdisciplinary basis.

Research overview

As “Iurisprudentia picturata”, legal iconography was a subject of research as early as the 18th century. In the 19th century, Karl von Amira (1848–1930) dealt with figurative legal sources in an exposed manner. He advocated a separation of legal iconography from legal archeology, which he also researched. Nevertheless, his so-called “legal archaeological picture collection” contains large parts of legal iconographic material. Amira's picture collection was retro-digitized in a joint project between the Leopold-Wenger Institute for Legal History in Munich and the Digitization Center of the Bavarian State Library and is available online.

In the succession of Amira, legal iconographic research experienced a significant boom. Other important legal historians, such as the Heidelberg legal linguist and founder of legal folklore Eberhard Freiherr von Künßberg (1881–1941), the Bern professor Hans Fehr and the Giessen legal iconographer and legal archaeologist Karl Frölich (1877–1953), created extensive collections of legal iconographic images. In the 1990s, Gernot Kocher's “Legal Iconographical Database” was created .

On the initiative of Gernot Kocher and Clausdieter Schott , the " Working Group for Legal Iconography" was set up in 1988, which organizes specialist conferences on the subject at regular intervals. The research results are published in the series "Signa Iuris - Contributions to Legal Iconography, Legal Archeology and Legal Folklore".

Web links

literature

Legal iconographic monographs and articles

  • Karl von Amira, The hand gestures in the picture manuscripts of the Sachsenspiegel , in: Treatises of the philosophical-philological class of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences 23.2 (1909), pp. 161-263.
  • Karl von Amira, Der Stab in der Germanischen Rechtssymbolik , in: Treatises of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Philological and Historical Class 25 (1911), pp. 1–180.
  • Karl Siegfried Bader (among others), Art and Law - Festgabe for Hans Fehr , Karlsruhe 1948.
  • Andreas Bauer, Libri Pandectarum. Roman law in the picture of the 17th century , Göttingen 2005.
  • Colette Brunschwig, visualization of legal norms - legal design , Zurich 2001.
  • Colette Brunschwig, Legal Iconography, Legal Iconology and Legal Visualization: Discussion and Development Potential , in: Markus Steppan / Helmut Gebhardt (Eds.), On the History of Law. Festschrift for Gernot Kocher on his 65th birthday, Graz 2006, pp. 39–47.
  • Andreas Deutsch, Justitia, Prudentia and the wise Solomon. Visual justice postulates in court , in: Lena Kunz / Vivianne Ferreira Mese (ed.), Legal Language and Protection of Weaknesses, Baden-Baden 2018, pp. 233-272.
  • Andreas Deutsch, Das Rottweiler Hofgericht as reflected in its pictorial representations , in: Signa Iuris 16 (2018) [published 2019], pp. 173–224.
  • Paul De Win (Ed.), Legal archeology en legal iconography / legal archeology and legal iconography. Een kennismaking; handelingen van het colloquium gehouden te Brussel op April 27, 1990 , Brussels 1992.
  • Hans Fehr , Right in the picture , Zurich 1923.
  • Georg Frommhold , The Idea of ​​Justice in Fine Arts, an iconological study , Greifswald / Bamberg 1925.
  • Stefan Huygebaert / Georges Martyn / Vanessa Pracht / Eric Bousmar / Xavier Rousseaux (eds.), The Art of Law: Artistic Representations and Iconography of Law and Justice in Context, from the Middle Ages to the First World War , Cham (Switzerland) 2018 .
  • Gernot Kocher, Signs and Symbols of Law, a Historical Iconography , Munich 1992.
  • Gernot Kocher, Die Rechtsikonographie , in: Ruth Schmidt-Wiegand (Ed.), Die Wolfenbütteler Illuminated Handwriting of the Sachsenspiegel, Essays and Investigations, Commentary Volume on the Facsimile Edition, Berlin 1993, pp. 107–117.
  • Gernot Kocher, Realien as elements of legal imagery , in: Dieter Pötschke (Ed.), Stadtrecht, Roland and Pranger: on the legal history of Halberstadt, Goslar, Bremen and cities of the Mark Brandenburg, Berlin. 2002, pp. 166-176.
  • Gernot Kocher, pictures - a secondary source of legal history? , in: Festschrift for Wilhelm Brauneder on his 65th birthday: Legal history with an international perspective, Vienna 2008, pp. 223–228.
  • Gerhard Köbler, Pictures from German Legal History - from the Beginnings to the Present , Munich 1988.
  • Walter Koschorreck , Der Sachsenspiegel in Pictures, selected from the Heidelberg illuminated manuscript and explained , 1st edition, Frankfurt (Main) 1976.
  • Eberhard von Künßberg, The Sachsenspiegel - Pictures from the Heidelberg manuscript introduced and explained , 1st edition (?), Leipzig 1933.
  • Adolf Laufs , Die Fehr'sche legal archaeological picture collection , in: Gregor Richter (Ed.), From the work of the archivist, Festschrift for Eberhard Gönner, Stuttgart 1986, pp. 361–374.
  • Heiner Lück , Traces of the Right in the Home of Eikes von Repgow , Wettin-Dößel 2010.
  • Dietlinde Munzel-Everling , Rolande - The European Roland representations and Roland figures , Wettin-Dößel 2005.
  • Wolfgang Pleistern / Wolfgang Schild (eds.), Law and Justice in the Mirror of European Art , Cologne 1988.
  • Franziska Prinz, The use of images in printed law books from the 15th to the end of the 18th century , Hamburg 2006.
  • Wolfgang Schild , Old Jurisdiction from the Judgment of God to the Beginning of Modern Jurisprudence , Munich 1980.
  • Wolfgang Schild, Use and Value of Legal Archeology and Legal Iconography for Medieval Legal History , in: Paul De Win (Ed.), Rechtsarcheologie en rechtsiconografie / Rechtsarchäologie und Rechtsikonographie, Brussels 1992, pp. 59–74.
  • Wolfgang Schild, Pictures of Law and Justice , Cologne 1995.
  • Wolfgang Schild, Torture, Pillory, Stake: Jurisprudence in the Middle Ages , Munich 2010.
  • Ruth Schmidt-Wiegand / Wolfgang Milde, God is right himself - The four illuminated manuscripts of the Sachsenspiegel: Oldenburg, Heidelberg, Wolfenbüttel, Dresden , 2nd edition, Wolfenbüttel 1993.
  • Wolfgang Sellert, Law and Justice in Art , Göttingen 1993.
  • Heino Speer (Ed.), Word - Image - Sign, Contributions to Semiotics in Law , Heidelberg 2012.

Magazines and series on legal iconography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Legal Iconography - What is it? Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
  2. ^ Mathias Schmoeckel: Karl von Amira and the beginnings of legal archeology. The legal archaeological collection of Karl von Amiras at the Leopold Wenger Institute . In: Research on legal archeology and legal folklore . tape 17 , 1997, pp. 67–81 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de [PDF]).
  3. ↑ Adolf run: The Fehr'sche pretty archaeological picture collection . In: Gregor Richter (Ed.): From the work of the archivist, Festschrift for Eberhard Gönner . Stuttgart 1986, p. 361-374 .
  4. ^ Dieter Werkmüller: Frölich, Karl (1877-1953) . In: Concise dictionary of German legal history (HRG) . 2nd Edition. tape 1 . ESV, Berlin 2008, p. Sp. 1855-1856 ( hrgdigital.de ).
  5. ↑ An overview of the legal iconography working group. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .