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The Medieval History Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1, 67-89 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/097194580000300104

Introduction

Vidal Mayor: A Visualisation of the Juridical Miniature

Gwendollyn Gout Grautoff

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 54 Boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris

Encompassing one of the richest programmes of illumination in a customary law code, the manuscript Vidal Mayor is a thirteenth-century compilation of Aragonese law. Its illumination programme, which includes numerous court scenes, is a perfect laboratory for a serial analysis. This essay explains the structure of the image space and its function. It also analyses the represen tation of the miniatures' main characters: the providers of justice.


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