Seals and Society: Medieval Wales, the Welsh Marches and Their English Border Region - Couverture souple

Schofield, Phillipp R.; McEwan, John; New, Elizabeth; Johns, Sue

 
9781783168750: Seals and Society: Medieval Wales, the Welsh Marches and Their English Border Region
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1783168757 ISBN 13 : 9781783168750
Editeur : University of Wales Press, 2018

Synopsis

Seals and Society arises from a major project investigating seals and their use in medieval Wales, the Welsh March and neighbouring counties in England. The first major study of seals in the context of one part of medieval Western European society, the volume also offers a new perspective on the history of medieval Wales and its periphery by addressing a variety of themes in terms of the insight that seals can offer the historian. Though the present study suggests important regional distinctions in the take-up of seals in medieval Wales, it is also clear that seal usage increased from the later twelfth century and spread widely in Welsh society, especially in those parts of Wales neighbouring England or where there had been an early English incursion. Through a series of chapters, the authors examine the ways in which seals can shed light on the legal, administrative, social and economic history of the period in Wales and its border region. Seals provide unique insights into the choices individuals, men and women, made in representing themselves to the wider world, and this issue is examined closely. Supported by almost 100 images gathered by the project team, the volume is of great interest to those working on seals, their motifs, their use and developments in their usage over the high and later Middle Ages.

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À propos de l?auteur

Senior school, college and university readership, as well as academic and specialist readers, and a wider public interested in the latest research on sigillography and aspects of medieval Wales and its place in a wider British and European context.

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Éditeur
University of Wales Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1783168757
ISBN 13 
9781783168750
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9781783168712: Seals and Society: Medieval Wales, the Welsh Marches and Their Border Region

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1783168714 ISBN 13 :  9781783168712
Editeur : University of Wales Press, 2016
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