Seals : making and marking connections across the medieval world /
By placing medieval sealing practices in a global and comparative perspective, the essays gathered in this volume challenge the traditional understanding of seals as tools of closure and validation in use since the dawn of civilization. Far from being a universal technique, sealing is revealed as a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
Leeds [England] : Arc Humanities Press, 2018 |
| Series: | Medieval globe ;
v. 4. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cultural transactions : an introduction to medieval seals from a global perspective / Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak
- Seals as conceptual and ritual tools in Chinese Buddhism, ca. 600-1000 CE / Paul Copp
- Imprinting powers : the astrological seal and its doctrinal meanings in the Latin West / Nicolas Weill-Parot
- A medieval solution to an early modern problem? : the royal animal seals of Jambi / Annabel Teh Gallop
- Expressing new rule : seals from early Islamic Egypt and Syria, 600-800 CE / Petra M. Sijpesteijn
- The formation of urban identity on Byzantine seals / Claudia Sode
- The cloth seal : a mark of quality, identification or taxation? / John Cherry
- Archaeology and sigillography in Northern Europe / Michael Andersen
- Medieval treaties and the diplomatic aesthetic / Jessica Berenbeim.
