Justice Blindfolded - The Historical Course of an Image

A history of "justice" and its iconography, that gives a full account of the ways that justice has been described, portrayed and imagined through the centuries, and how it looks like today.

About the author

Adriano Prosperi, Ph.D. (1968), Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy, is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History. He has published extensively on the Reformation, the Tridentine Council, and the idea of faith in Western Europe. His most recent books are a study of Luther, Lutero. Gli anni della fede e della libertà (Milan 2017) and a history of the death penalty, Crime and Forgiveness: Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe (Harvard University Press 2018).

Product details

• Authors: Adriano Prosperi
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.10.2018
• EAN: 9789004362208
• ISBN: 978-90-04-36220-8
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 243 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 537 g
• Series: Catholic Christendom, 1300-170
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries