Hi everybody!
First of all, it would be really great even if a little group of students could go to the Teatro India to see Civica's version of the MOV (as Emanuela suggested) which seems to be absolutely original. You now know the play quite well, I'm sure you will enjoy it!
Second, if you happen to go to London, especially after these talks about Law and Architecture, try to visit the Inns of Court too. Maybe you are not all aware that you can visit them. I suggest Lincoln's Inn (with lovely law bookshop) and, of course, Inner and Middle Temple (with the famous Temple Church...). They are all in the very centre of London, not far away from Trafalgar Square and near the High Courts of Justice too. I'm sure that the architecture will give you an idea of the barristers' status in England! By the way, if you have really patient friends/family, you can also see a criminal case in the Old Bailey (http://www.touruk.co.uk/london_sights/oldbailey1.htm). It's quite fun.
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I returned yesterday from London and although it was a short trip (I stopped only 3 days and a half) I tried to see more places as possible and for to do it I took the big bus with guide! So, although I have missed the lessons of nice Prof. Gary Watt, I'm happy to tell you something:
the city boasts one of the greatest monuments of Gothic-primitive-English, the Abbey of Westminster was rebuilt between 1245 and 1270 under Henry III and completed in the XIV century., after being destroyed by the Danes.
Westminster is the church where by 1066, with William the conqueror, take place all the coronations of royals of England and and where many kings are buried up to 1760. Overall, the chapel collects a hundred statues and tombs, most of the sovereign of England. On the bottom, behind the tomb of Henry VII, the R.A.F Chapel, dedicated to the memory of the fallen of the Royal Air Force. At the east corner of the nave southern access to the big cloister of the XI century, which houses many tombs and through which one comes to the chapter room, or Chapter House. This hall is considered the cradle of free parliaments,because here met in 1257 the Great Council and the meetings were held of the English from the XIV to the XVII century.
After the confiscation of the monasteries during the reign of Henry VIII in the XVI century. religious architecture was almost completely abandoned for over a century and the lands were intended for the construction of public buildings, home and construction of private gardens.
London is one of the richest cities of museums and cultural institutions in the world, important is the British Museum (just near the hotel where I stayed), home to important collections of works of art (and collection of manuscripts), for painting important is the National Gallery and the whole of Victoria and Albert Museum for jewelry, ceramics, ivory, furniture and furnishings.
London is also full of theaters, including the Covent Garden dedicated to opera.
Beautiful ... the London eye which is seen throughout the city (for who do not suffer from vertigo!).
I could dwell on many other things like Buckingham Palace, residence of the royal, in Saint James Park, but I think it is better to dwell on the Inn's of Court as suggested by Dott.ssa Gialdroni.
The Inn's of Court are the building where, centuries ago, lawyers and judges ex lawyers accommodation, did practice and place the legal profession.
These controlled the members, gave food, paper and residential accommodation (such as college). From XX century. lawyers developed their activities outside the Inn's of Court.
The Inn's of Court are near the Royal Court of Justice (1882) and consist of a library, chapel, rooms and garden. Over the centuries the Inn's of Court became four, one of these is the Lincoln's Inn, located in the district of Holdborn, which takes its name from the Count that founded it in the XIV century. Were students of this school some important people as Horace Walpole, Sir Thomas More and Benjamin Disraeli.
I have not entered into the Lincoln's Inn because I was on the big bus but I can decrivere what I saw and what the guide said: entry you notice the arms of Henry VIII and the Duke's founder, at the left there are the old buildings and to the right there is the chapel . In front there is the Old Hall, built in 1491 and used until 1883 as Chancellor of the court. Besides the chapel there is a large legal library, and near there are the homes of lawyers and a small garden used during breaks.
London is certainly a city to visit!
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hello stefania..
as I wrote further about law& architecture, I would like to see if my analizing could be interesting, althouh kind of new...
when we talked about how cities and monuments reflected the law in that precise civilization, I though how coulb be simbolized the tribunals. We saw how the french court, with a great analyse of professor from uk -sorry can't remember his name, I'm a terrible student- was inviting to get justice,the "face" of the law with the "facade" (french word for face) of the Palais de Justice, the feminine statues, themasculine orders (columns) and how the arches were breaking the classicla, doric columns whitch were corinthian AND doric columns. This to simbolize the fact of "breaking "the classical columns, so that we could get in it a kind of evolution in the same law. Then we saw that the law& order (not talkin' about a soap here, lol) were symbolized by MEN, and the justice was symbolized by women (truth, protection, force, punishment..)
That was really interesting because i thought about our old tribunal in Piazza cavour (whitch is my favourite monument ever)that has Jurists on the front, so that gaio, Giustiniano and Co. symbolize the knowledge of the law, before the law itself..That monument is enoumous and very, very, complicated: it is plenty of columns, and symbols, and statues (male statues!!) : the imponence of law is remarquable.
However, how can recent tribunals be built without any law & justice symbols?? Have a look at the piazzale Clodio's Tribunal : an ordinany, grey, inform building. Think about the Maxiprocesso in Palermo : a special building for the trial was created for that sad occasion, near Ucciardone (Palermo's prison) where 474 people were called in the tribunal for mafia crimes in 1986-1987. Tha special trial was build at least only for that specific occasion, and had octagonal form, and was build in very strong materials to prevent the trial from air.armed attacks and so on. Why eight walls? Firts to contain all of he 474 suspected, and second as a symbol: maybe the architect didi'nt build a tribunal with 4 normal walls because the 8 walls could signify hat the State was ready to defend himself even in the most vulnerable parts, so the same State was ready to defend and to attack the Mafia not only in the normal way (4 walls) but with all the weapons that could be used, multi-lateral weapons because he realized that the Mafia wasn't a normal advesary, but a very powerful illness that had to be cought in every, single direction. That is my personal interpretation..what do you (and Prof.Conte9 think about it?
thank you for reading!
see you soon
P.S : sorry for the mistakes while taping, I write so fast as my brain goes on and just send everything, althouh I think that you realized that my mistakes weren't caused by bad english but by fast taping!!
thanks for yout comprehension!
Dear Astrid,
I think that what you wrote about our Italian tribunals and the connections about Law and Architecture is very interesting, even if I'm not sure that the 8 walls (you mean double walls and not an octagonal building, I suppose) of the Palermo Tribunal aren't there to symbolise anything but just to protect. But I have to admit that I really don't know anything about that building and I'm sure that your comment is a good starting point for a discussion about the idea of Justice or, in this particular case, about the power of the State against a pseudo-statal criminal organisation like Mafia.
About our criminal court in P.le Clodio I have so many things to say that I think the space that I have on the blog isn't enough. I was always struck by its ugliness and I used to think that it was build in that way to prevent people from committing crimes: An ugly building to represent the horror of crimes, a kind of prison before the prison. No monuments, no writings on or representations of justice, only a statue of the god Mercury hidden in one of the courtyards, which should represent the rapidity of justice. It sounds like a joke! It would be really interesting to study better all the (very different) tribunals that we have in Rome or compare tribunals in different parts of Italy in a systematical way!
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