The Webinars Cycle “Dialogues of Art, History and Law” is organized by the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM – NOVA FCSH), together with the IUS ILLUMINATUM research team and in partnership with the Portuguese Heraldry Institute (IPH), the Capitular Library of Verona and the Capitular Library of Vercelli. 

This initiative, organized by a scientific and organizational committee composed of members of the IUS ILLUMINATUM research team, coordinated by researcher Maria Alessandra Bilotta, PI of the team, aims to establish a fruitful dialogue between different scientific disciplines, namely History of Art, History and History of Law, necessary for the study of illuminated legal manuscripts and documents. 

 
This initiative also aims to facilitate synergies between different areas of knowledge and to disseminate the results of research to a wider audience, always maintaining scientific rigor, in order to promote the importance of an interdisciplinary approach in the study of manuscripts and medieval legal documents, drawing attention to the importance of conserving that heritage. 

Next session: April 1st 2022
“Images and Texts in Medieval Legal Manuscripts and Documents” 

(coord. Gianluca del Monaco, Università di Bologna – Marta Mangini, Università degli Studi di Milano Statale) 

Moderator: Giulia Orofino (Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale) 

Giuseppa Z. Zanichelli (Università degli Studi di Salerno) – L’illustrazione dei codici giuridici miniati altomedievali: schemi e narrazione 

Valentina Ruzzin (Università degli Studi di Genova) – Le ‘mani’ dei notai: registri notarili e di cancelleria come fonte per lo studio della cultura grafico-figurativa (secc. XII-XV) 

 Calendar of sessions:
 – February 4 2022 
– March 4 2022 
– April 1 2022 
– May 6 2022 
– June 3 2022 

Scientific-organizational commitee: 
Maria Alessandra Bilotta (IEM-NOVA/FCSH) – General Coordinator 
Maria João Branco (IEM-NOVA/FCSH) 
Fabio Barberini (IEM-NOVA/FCSH) 
André Miguel da Cunha Vitória (IEM-NOVA/FCSH) 
Bertrand Cosnet (Université Lille 3) 
Gianluca del Monaco (Università di Bologna) 
Miguel Metelo de Seixas (IEM-NOVA/FCSH) 
Silvia Faccin (Fondazione Museo del Duomo di Vercelli) 
Timoty Leonardi (Fondazione Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona) 
Jorge Jiménez López (Universidad de Zaragoza) 
Marta Mangini (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale) 
Jorge Prádanos Fernández (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 
 
Organizing institutions: 
Oficina de investigação IUS ILLUMINATUM 
IEM-NOVA/FCSH 
Biblioteca Capitolare di Vercelli 
Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona 
Instituto Português de Heráldica (IPH) 

 

Past session recordings:
March 4th 2022 [Youtube] 
Justice and Final Judgment: Some Questions of Monumental Representations in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (coord. Maria Alessandra Bilotta) 

Moderator: Gerardo Boto Varela (Universitat de Girona) 

Marcello Angheben (Université de Poitiers; CESCM) – De un juicio a otro: la representación del juicio inmediato en los Juicios Finales de los siglos XII-XIII 

Bertrand Cosnet (Université de Lille; IRHiS) – Essor et variations de l’iconographie de la Justice à la balance dans les cités-états de l’Italie du XIVe siècle 

February 4th 2022 [Youtube] 
Heraldry in places and instruments of justice (coord. Miguel Metelo de Seixas) 

Moderator: Miguel Metelo de Seixas (IEM – NOVA FCSH) 
Laurent Hablot (EPHE), La mise en signe des espaces de justice aux XIVe-XVIe siècles, l’exemple breton 
João Portugal (IPH), Ivs Ædificaum. Le pilori : lieu de justice, miroir du pouvoir 
Matteo Ferrari (EPHE), Indiquer les juges, orienter les citoyens : les enseignes des tribunaux dans les palais des communes italiennes