Form and Order in Medieval France: Studies in Social and Quantitative Sigillography - Couverture rigide

Livre 51 sur 54: Variorum Collected Studies

Bedos–Rezak, Brigitte

 
9780860783558: Form and Order in Medieval France: Studies in Social and Quantitative Sigillography
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0860783553 ISBN 13 : 9780860783558
Editeur : Variorum, 1993

Synopsis

By the early 13th century the use of seals in Northern Europe was a generalized phenomenon which involved society as a whole, crossing boundaries of gender, age, religion, and social and professional status. The function traditionally ascribed to seals is the validation of the documents to which they were affixed, but the phenomenon has far wider implications, as is brought out in this collection of studies by Brigitte Bedos-Rezak. In itself a seal could serve as a quasi-amuletic object or a personal adornment, the image impressed from it functioned as a sign conveying identity and power, and the ritual of sealing provided an occasion for the affirmation of status. In her work the author has aimed to use the approaches of statistics, cultural and women's history and semiotics, as well as the 'traditional' skills of art history, law and diplomatics, to show the numerous surviving seals can be used to reach into the history of the Middle Ages, and at the same time to explore and test the interpretative models suggested by semiotics and postmodern theories on symbols, representation and meaning.

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À propos de l?auteur

Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, University of Maryland at College Park, USA

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Éditeur
Variorum
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0860783553
ISBN 13 
9780860783558
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
328
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