CALL FOR PAPERS : Law and image: illuminated legal manuscripts, Revue Clio@Themis (Deadline : 1 Sept. 2020)

(Source : ClioThemis)

We learned of a call for papers about Law and image: illuminated legal manuscripts. The electronic review, is preparing a thematic file on illuminations in legal manuscripts.

DEADLINES : An abstarct or title has to be sent before 1 September 2020, and the article before 31 December 2020.

NOTE :  The review is primarly in French, however, papers in English, Spanish and Italian are welcome as well.

Clio@Themis, in collaboration with the research team IUS ILLUMINATUM of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, has decided to devote a thematic dossier, planned for the year 2021, to Illuminated legal manuscripts. The dossier, placed under the scientific coordination of Maria Alessandra Bilotta (IEM-FCSH/NOVA, principal researcher of the IUS ILLUMINATUM team) and Serge Dauchy (Centre d’histoire judiciaire, CNRS, Lille), aims to create an opportunity for dialogue between historians of illumination and legal historians and an opportunity to explore the different aspects of the decoration and illustration of the medieval legal manuscript.

Papers (20 to 25 p.), will be written in French, English, Spanish or Italian. Only illustrations that are free of copyright or for which a free publication authorization has been granted may be published (in colour) online.
Contributions may include, but are not limited, to the following topics:

1. The relationship between text and image in legal manuscripts
2. Marginal decorations in illuminated legal manuscripts
3. The circulation of illuminated legal manuscripts in Europe in the Middle Ages
4. The study of fragments of illuminated legal manuscripts
5. The production of illuminated legal manuscripts
6. Peciae and illuminated legal manuscripts
7. Customary Law, ‘Oath Books’ and Illuminated Statuti
8. The transition from the illuminated legal manuscript to the printed book

CONTACT  :  Submissions have to be sent to scientific coordinators, Pr. S. Dauchy and M.A Bilotta.
serge.dauchy@univ-lille.fr
maria.bilotta@fcsh.unl.pt

MORE INFORMATION (in French and English) : http://www.cliothemis.com/Appel-a-contributions