The Virgin in the Ghent Altarpiece and the Revelations of Saint Bridget of Sweden
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22059461 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Angela Maria La Delfa (0000-0002-9752-442X, University of Maryland Global Campus, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Pages | 83-98 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | De Medio Aevo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2255-5889 • E-ISSN: 2255-5889 |
| Publisher | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5209/dmae.69616 |
| OpenAlex | W3042219478 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Why not see the law as a Roman tale analogically and imperialistically projected inside the study of “primitive” societies by anthropologists? This article’s main topic is firstly the capacity of law to be the science of its own rationales and practices, and secondly the biases drove into anthropological thinking while borrowing legal concepts and modes of reasoning. Altogether descriptive and prescriptive, the law depicts and organizes human realities in a single move. That thus creates a major epistemological difficulty when and where indigenous confession occurs, i.e. the phenomenon by which local cultural schemes are locally formulated in the alienating terms originated in the legal corpus. Beyond a law-dependent legal anthropology, the anthropology of law is aware of the importance of legal fictions and reaches the substance of the law as a western and westernized set of concepts, logics
Art history · Epistemology · Indigenous · Phenomenon · Political science · SAINT · Sociology · Historical Legal Studies and Society · History · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |