Abstract
The present essay on 'Court-house iconography of the laterMiddleAges' pleads for a rather wide relation between text and image to provide a more differ entiated understanding of allegories like those of justice or of power. City-hall iconography should be interpreted without making extensive use of the para digm of republicanism. Medieval citizens were always proud to integrate heroes, saints, nobles, emperors and kings into their history and to turn them into citizens. City-hall iconography was not an expression of medieval re publicanism. Its motifs and programmes rather document the attempt to incorporate the city into medieval theology and into the theory of good rule.
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