A Companion to Seals in the Middle Ages

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-38064-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 809 g

Reihe: Reading Medieval Sources

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 and geographic scope of the essays in the volume suggests, the study of the medieval seal—its manufacture, materiality, usage, iconography, inscription, and preservation—is a rich endeavour that demands collaboration across disciplines as well as between scholars working on material from different regions and periods. It is hoped that this collection will make the study of medieval seals more accessible and will stimulate students and scholars to employ and further develop these material and methodological approaches to seals.
Contributors are Adrian Ailes, Elka Cwiertnia, Paul Dryburgh, Emir O. Filipovi, Oliver Harris, Philippa Hoskin, Ashley Jones, Andreas Lehnertz, John McEwan, Elizabeth A. New, Jonathan Shea, Caroline Simonet, Angelina A. Volkoff, and Marek L. Wójcik.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Whatley, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Hilfswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Contributors
Introduction: Approaches to Medieval Seals and Sealing Practices
Laura J. Whatley
PART 1
Materiality and Seals
1 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
2 Material Analysis of the Seals Attached to the Barons’ Letter to the Pope
Paul Dryburgh, Elke Cwiertnia and Adrian Ailes
3 Does Size Matter? Social Standing and Seal Dimensions in Medieval Britain
John McEwan
PART 2
Historiography and Seals
4 Fragments of the Past: The Early Antiquarian Perception and Study of Seals in England
Oliver D. Harris
5 Medieval Armorial Seals in The National Archives (UK)
Adrian Ailes
PART 3
Seals in Bureaucracy and Diplomatic
6 The Seals of the Judges of the Hippodrome: Drawing Data from Seals Without Context
Jonathan Shea
7 Administration and Identity: Episcopal Seals in England from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Century
Philippa Hoskin
PART 4
Power and Aspiration on Medieval Seals
8 Power, Family, and Identity: Social and Individual Elements in Byzantine Sigillography
Angelina Anne Volkoff
9 Two Seals of Muskinus the Jew (Moshe b. Yehiel, d. 1336), The Archbishop of Trier’s Negociator
Andreas Lehnertz
10 ‘Creatio Regni’ in the Great Seal of Bosnian King Tvrtko Kotromanic
Emir O. Filipovic
PART 5
Elusive Seal Owners and Users
11 Reconsidering the Silent Majority: Non- Heraldic Personal Seals in Medieval Britain
Elizabeth New
12 The Seals of Knights’ Wives in Medieval Silesia
Marek L. Wójcik
PART 6
Visual Culture and Seals
13 Coins as Seals in Lombard Italy
Ashley Jones
14 The Use of Ancient Gems and Coins: A Noticeable Presence of Antiquity in Medieval Sigillography
Caroline Simonet
Select Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Laura J. Whatley, Ph.D. (2010), University of Illinois, is Assistant Professor of Art History at Auburn University Montgomery. She has published articles on crusader and military seals and crusading visual culture in medieval England. She also co-edited the volume The Crusades and Visual Culture (Routledge, 2015).