EUTopia CoLeCo Legal History: The End(s) of War

(image: Warwick University, Humanities Building) Dear readers, We are delighted to share three new contributions to our connected learning community: Emma Wittens on the Belgian "Charity Bill" of 1857, Blue Vercauteren Trompet on the Belgian Abortion Act of 1990, and Lisa Gouellain on animal rights (in French, in keeping with our alliance's commitment to multilingualism). We will now take a summer break until 15 August. The virtual exhibition bringing together all our contributions- curated by Lewis Twiby (Warwick) - will be available after that date.

Referred to in Italian as La Serenissima, the ‘Most Serene Republic of Venice’ was outwardly portrayed by the state through a variety of different mechanisms. By the late fifteenth century, Venice had established herself at the heart of European commercial activity boasting an expansive empire which ranged expansively across the Istrian peninsula to the island of Cyprus. Central to this political and economic identity sat the Palazzo Ducale where the doge and his elected Great Council administered justice. Legal mechanisms by the sixteenth century were justified through a Renaissance ideal of architectural commissioning and the evolution of visual, iconographical messages.1 An increase in state patronage of the visual arts hinged around the damaging realities suffered by the state in the aftermath of the War of the League of Cambrai. Losing a sizable part of the maritime stato da mar and the majority of the mainland Terraferma, the empire was rapidly collapsing yet the city itself ...

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