Lecture

The body of law, " Corpus Iuris ". Imagining law through bodily metaphors in Roman legal literature

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The lecture explores how Roman jurists, who were also writers, used metaphors to express and even forge their concepts, some of which are still ours today. Metaphors are a cognitive matrix, a way of thinking, not just speaking. Body, head, ears, hands, feet, birth, growth, death, movement : so many metaphors and comparisons to " dire le droit " and to move it forward. This year's lecture will hunt for these figures in Justinian's Corpus Iuris , that " body of law " to be explored for a better understanding of the extent to which legal thought is also linked to language and imagination.

Colossal statue of Constantine, right hand (courtyard). Capitoline Museum (Rome) ─ Valéry Hugotte, 2015
Colossal statue of Constantine, right hand (courtyard). Capitoline Museum (Rome) ─ Valéry Hugotte, 2015.

A doctoral seminar linked to the lecture is also planned : interested parties are invited to contact the professor.

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