Tabula Picta: Painting and Writing in Medieval Law - Rilegato

Madero, Marta

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ISBN 10: 081224186X ISBN 13: 9780812241860

Casa editrice: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 2009

Riassunto

To whom does a painted tablet—a tabula picta—belong? To the owner of the physical piece of wood on which an image is painted? Or to the person who made the painting on that piece of wood? By extension, one might ask, who is the owner of a text? Is it the person who has written the words, or the individual who possesses the piece of parchment or slab of stone on which those words are inscribed?

In Tabula Picta Marta Madero turns to the extensive glosses and commentaries that medieval jurists dedicated to the above questions when articulating a notion of intellectual and artistic property radically different from our own. The most important goal for these legal thinkers, Madero argues, was to situate things—whatever they might be—within a logical framework that would allow for their description, categorization, and placement within a proper hierarchical order. Only juridical reasoning, they claimed, was capable of sorting out the individual elements that nature or human art had brought together in a single unit; by establishing sets of distinctions and taxonomies worthy of Borges, legal discourse sought to demonstrate that behind the deceptive immediacy of things, lie the concepts and arguments of what one might call the artifices of the concrete.

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L'autore:

Marta Madero is Professor of Medieval History at Universidad Nacional de Gerneral Sarmiento in Argentina.

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Book by Madero Marta

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• Editore: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 081224186X
• ISBN 13: 9780812241860
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 141