Marty Slaughter

• email: m.slaughter@law.bbk.ac.uk

Marty Slaughter has been appointed as an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Law until 30 September 2011.

Research area

Broadly, the relation between visual art and law/ethics. Specifically, the development of forgiveness and mercy in the late medieval and early modern periods as manifested in religious painting. This research focuses on two kinds of representation:

• the passion of Christ
• Mary as the Mother of Mercy

An ancillary study focuses on ugliness in Reformation art.