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Strategic Decoration in the Persianate and Latinate Worlds c. 1500-1700

As the academic year draws slowly to a close, we are also approaching the concluding session of the 2012-2013 Rechtskulturen Colloquium. This  inaugural year of Rechtskulturen has been an exciting and challenging beginning, with a great group of fellows. On Monday, 25 June, historian Gijs Kruijtzer (2011-2012 Rechtskulturen Fellow at Humboldt University Law School) will talk in Recht im Kontext‘s Rechtskulturen Colloquium about Strategic Decoration in the Persianate and Latinate Worlds c. 1500-1700 Ever since Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the stone tablets, there has been a sense in all three of the Abrahamic religions that man-made likenesses of animated beings may in ... continue reading