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![]() Primarily through a historical analysis of Renaissance and Reformation debates on the history, uses, and laws governing images. The following study will thus interpret the foundation of common law It also wrote itself against women, the living images which threatened to confuse the spirit or truth of law through mere appearance and "carnal pretence." It built its doctrine and identity against the ornaments of Rome and the sophistries of the Continentals. In doctrinal terms it developed initially as an aspect of the protest against images and established itself through discourses against the distraction of images and the idols of the mind. The Anglican legal tradition was born of the Reformation and of the new form of letters, the printed text. The common law too can be studied in terms of an originary trauma or misrecognition of identity. It will be argued that the inaugural doctrinal discourses or treatises of common law inherit or replicate the structures of classical Western patristic writings and their theological and latterly secular narratives of legality. This study will pursue this narrative or trauma of social foundation primarily through the example of early modern discourses of foundation of common law. The story of foundation establishes an iconic order of legality as writing, speech, or text whose letters or literae will banish both the use and the meaning of images and the other idols or figures of thought. The foundational story of the writing of law is predicated upon destroying or outlawing idols, the images of other laws, of different forms of representation and of gender. The idol in question, the golden calf or Osiris, has been variously interpreted as representing Egypt, plurality, or feminine deities and cults of creativity. ![]() The writing and rewriting of the law took place around the destruction of an idol. The most ancient of the Western mythologies of the foundation of law, that of the decalogue, tells the story of an order of legal writing established against the disorder of images.
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