enforce contracts and status relationships. The Art of Law edifies but also (and perhaps intentionally) leaves readers wanting more direction and analyses. The ever-present question is about what was put on view. Are we, twenty-first-century viewers, looking at decisions dictated by a governing legal body, or are these artefacts of artistic choice and (as some chapters suggest) whimsy? How are we to understand what the different spectators took to be the messages of the objects we look at now? Furthermore, how do we, living in a world awash with images, glimpse (a word chosen advisedly) the impact on those who looked at the images when put on display. What were the directives judges were supposed to take, for example, when assigned to rooms inscribed with the words ‘Judge ye, as ye shall be judged’? In sum, readers of this volume will learn a great deal about the history of iconography associated with law but less about the translocal political and social forces that render ‘Justice’ legible, that built impressive structures, and that pressed certain narratives into public consciousness. Furthermore, the haunting question addressed by some, but not all, of the authors remains: how to think about the continued legibility of much of this imagery, given that social movements have transformed adjudication into a practice embedded in democracies and, in many countries, have produced courthouses as an icon not only of adjudication but also of government more generally?

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爱、正义和法律：基督教的爱如何塑造法律？

强制执行合同和地位关系。《法律艺术》具有启发性，但也（或许是有意地）让读者需要更多的指导和分析。永远存在的问题是关于什么被放在了视野中。我们，二十一世纪的观众，是在看由管理法律机构决定的决定，还是这些艺术选择的人工制品和（如某些章节所暗示的）奇思妙想？我们如何理解不同的观众认为我们现在看到的物体所传达的信息？此外，我们生活在一个充斥着图像的世界中，如何瞥见（谨慎选择的词）对那些观看图像的人的影响。例如，当法官被分配到刻有“审判你们，你们将受到审判”的房间时，他们应该采取什么指示？总共，本书的读者将了解与法律相关的图像学的大量历史，但较少了解使“正义”清晰易读、建造令人印象深刻的结构以及将某些叙述压入公众意识的跨地域政治和社会力量。此外，一些（但不是全部）作者提出的令人难以忘怀的问题仍然存在：鉴于社会运动已将裁决转变为嵌入民主国家的实践，并且在许多国家，如何考虑这些图像的持续易读性，法院是否不仅作为审判的象征，而且更普遍地作为政府的象征？这将某些叙述压入了公众意识。此外，一些（但不是全部）作者提出的令人难以忘怀的问题仍然存在：鉴于社会运动已将裁决转变为嵌入民主国家的实践，并且在许多国家，如何考虑这些图像的持续易读性，法院是否不仅作为审判的象征，而且更普遍地作为政府的象征？这将某些叙述压入了公众意识。此外，一些（但不是全部）作者提出的令人难以忘怀的问题仍然存在：鉴于社会运动已将裁决转变为嵌入民主国家的实践，并且在许多国家，如何考虑这些图像的持续易读性，法院是否不仅作为审判的象征，而且更普遍地作为政府的象征？