History of Law and Other Humanities.Views of the legal world across the time

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The collection of essays presented here examines the links forged throughthe ages between the realm of law and the expressions of the humanistic culture.We collected thirty-five essays by international scholars and organizedthem into sections of ten chapters based around ten different themes. Twomain perspectives emerged: in some articles the topic relates to the conventionalapproach of law and/in humanities (iconography, literature, architecture,cinema, music), other articles are about more traditional connectionsbetween fields of knowledge (in particular, philosophy, political experiences,didactics).We decided not to confine authors to one particular methodologicalframework, preferring instead to promote historiographical openness. Ourintention was to create a patchwork of different approaches, with each articledrawing on a different area of culture to provide a new angle to the historybeing told. The variety of authorial nationalities gives the collection a multiculturalcharacter and the breadth of the chronological period it deals with from antiquity to the contemporary age adds further depth of insight.As the element that unites the collection is historiographical interpretation, we wanted to bring to the fore its historical depth. Thus for every chapterwe organized the articles in chronological order according to the historicalcontext covered.Looking at the final outcome, it was interesting to learn that more oftenthan not the connection between law and humanities is not simply a relationbetween a specific branch of the law and a single field of the humanities, butrather a relation that could be developed in many directions at once, involvingdifferent fields of knowledge, and of arts and popular culture.We are grateful to Luigi Lacchè for his contribution to this collection. Hisessay outlines the coordinates of the law and humanities world, laying outthe instruments necessary for an understanding of the origins of a complexmethodology and the different approaches that exist within it.This project is the result of discussions that took place during the XXIIIForum of the Association of Young Legal Historians held in Naples in thespring of 2017. The book was made possible thanks to the advice and supportof Cristina Vano.The Editors