A companion to seals in the Middle Ages /

A companion to seals in the Middle Ages / / editor, Laura Whatley.

A Companion to Seals in the Middle Ages is a cross-disciplinary collection of fourteen essays on medieval sigillography. It is organized thematically, and it emphasizes important, often cutting-edge, methodologies for the study of medieval seals and sealing cultures. As the chronological, temporal a...

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Whatley, Laura J.
Place / Publishing House:Leiden,, Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Reading Medieval Sources 2.
Physical Description:1 online resource (431 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • Introduction: Approaches to Medieval Seals and Sealing Practices / Laura J. Whatley
  • Materiality and Seals
  • Analysis of the Materiality of Royal and Governmental Seals of England with a Focus on the Great Seals (1100–1300): Methodology and Findings / Elke Cwiertnia , Adrian Ailes and Paul Dryburgh
  • Material Analysis of Seals Attached to the Barons’ Letter to the Pope / Paul Dryburgh , Elke Cwiertnia and Adrian Ailes
  • Does Size Matter? Seals in England and Wales, circa1200–1500 / John A. McEwan
  • Historiography and Seals
  • Fragments of the Past: the Early Antiquarian Perception and Study of Seals in England / Oliver D. Harris
  • Medieval Armorial Seals in The National Archives (UK) / Adrian Ailes
  • Seals in Bureaucracy and Diplomatic
  • The Seals of the Judges of the Hippodrome: Drawing Data from Seals without Context / Jonathan Shea
  • Administration and Identity: Episcopal Seals in England from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Century / Philippa Hoskin
  • Power and Aspiration on Medieval Seals
  • Power, Family, and Identity: Social and Personal Elements in Byzantine Sigillography / Angelina Anne Volkoff
  • Two Seals of Muskinus the Jew (Moshe born Yeḥiel, d. 1336), the Archbishop of Trier’s Negociator / Andreas Lehnertz
  • ‘Creatio Regni’ in the Great Seal of Bosnian King Tvrtko Kotromanić / Emir O. Filipović
  • Elusive Seal Owners and Users
  • Reconsidering the Silent Majority: Non-Heraldic Personal Seals in Medieval Britain / Elizabeth A. New
  • Seals of the Wives of Silesian Knights in the Pre-Hussite Age (1259–1414) / Marek L. Wójcik
  • Visual Culture and Seals
  • Coins as Seals in Lombard Italy / Ashley Jones
  • The (Re-)Use of Ancient Gems and Coins: the Presence of Antiquity in Medieval Sigillography / Caroline Simonet
  • Back Matter
  • Select Bibliography.

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