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Q&A with the author of Performing Worlds at the Baroque Court of Christine of France
Read more: Q&A with the author of Performing Worlds at the Baroque Court of Christine of FranceThis interview explores how Christine of France used Baroque court spectacles to shape political authority, global imagination, and cultures of consumption.
Lady Justice as an Allegory in Motion
by Valérie Hayaert Animated by signs that are in essence mutable, Justitia (Lady Justice) may be perceived as an allegory in motion. Scholars who pretend to master the intricacies of this “science of images” (iconology) forget an important fact: allegories…
Hector MacQueen on David Sellar’s Essays (Part 3)
by Hector L. MacQueen Missed Part 1 and 2? Read it here first! Part 1Part 2 Each of the chapters after the first is an in-depth study of its topic which at the same time, and in David’s characteristically fluent…
Hector MacQueen on David Sellar’s Essays (Part 2)
by Hector L. MacQueen Missed Part 1? Read it here first! Another starting point on which David made common ground with Cooper was the importance for Scotland of the development of the law of the western Church – Canon law…
Hector MacQueen on David Sellar’s Essays (Part 1)
by Hector L. MacQueen David Sellar (1941-2019) was a pioneering historian of Scots law who convincingly and conclusively rejected previous interpretations of the subject as a series of false starts and rejected experiments. Instead, he emphasised the continuity of legal…
It should not be ‘a matter of £ s d.’: The Crown estate, foreshore and the public interest
One of the reasons for the devolution of the management of the Scottish Crown estate property to the Scottish government in April 2017 was because of the perception that the Crown Estate Commissioners in London focussed too narrowly on securing…