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This article considers the development of the individual subject of law and his constitutional status in the early modern
English State, within the context of sumptuary legislation enacted by the Crown and the Inns of Court. During the sixteenth
century, the legal community took upon itself the role of exemplifying the correct use of symbols and of elucidating the purpose
of sumptuary law. The image of the lawyer was manipulated to represent the inherent divinity of common law. The reformation
of the image was inevitably influenced by the doctrinal concepts of the European Reformation and is a graphic indication of
the centrality of Anglicanism to the development of early modern common law. I discuss these developments with reference to
theories of the image proposed by Goodrich, Legendre and Marin. I refer also to Carlyle's satirical treatise on the symbolism
of clothes,Sartor Resartus. The constitution of clothes represents the idea of citizenship and the centrality of reason to the body-politic. The rediscovery
of classical texts during the Renaissance was instrumental in shaping a constitution in which an embryonic social contract
was apparent, as represented in the sumptuary legislation of the Inns of Court.
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This article addresses the architecture of the four Inns of Court inLondon as repositories for the body of law (corpus iuris). Thebuildings are perceived as visual representations of the unwrittenconstitution; evidence that the sign, not the text, remains thepredominant form through which the constitution manifests its content.It is in this context that the self-governing Inns are interpreted asmicrocosms of the City of God, envisaged by Saint Augustine andprefigured in ancient Greece by the Republic of Plato. The Innssynthesise these classical and Christian precepts; thereby creatinga unique commonwealth whose Utopian ideals are based on the applicationof Justitia, or righteousness: an ethical rather than alegal concept which underpins the English constitution. The argumentproposes a correlation between architectural development at the Inns andthe challenge posed to the institutional authority of the law by the newlearning of the Renaissance. It is the semiotics of legal architecturerather than its historical provenance which is central to my analysis. Iattempt to comprehend the effect of the influences outlined above on theform and content of the common law, the legal institution and theancient constitution. 相似文献
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