Seals - Making and Marking Connections Across the Medieval World

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-64189-256-8
Verlag: ARC Humanities Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: The Medieval Globe Books

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 flexible idiom, selectively deployed to mediate entangled identities: the introduction of Buddhism in early medieval China; the Islamization of Sasanian and Byzantine cultures; even the advancement of diplomacy from northern Europe to Indonesia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte

Symes, Carol

Weitere Mitwirkende

Symes, Carol

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Mediengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Cultural Transactions: An Introduction to Medieval Seals from a Global Perspective, Brigitte Bedos-RezakSeals as Conceptual and Ritual Tools in Chinese Buddhism, ca. 700-1000 CE, Paul Copp
Imprinting Powers: The Astrological Seal and Its Doctrinal Meanings in the Latin West, Nicolas Weill-Parot
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 Formulation of Urban Identity on Byzantine Seals, Claudia Sode
A Mark of Quality: The Rise and Fall of the Cloth Seal, John Cherry
Archeology and Sigillography in Northern Europe, Michael Andersen
Medieval Treaties and the Diplomatic Aesthetic, Jessica Berenbeim

Über Autor(innen)

Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte
Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak is a Professor of History at New York University. Her most recent research on seals, signing practices, imagistic scripts, and charismatic art has appeared in When Ego was Imago. Signs of Identity in the Middle Ages (2011), Sign and Design. Script as Image in a Cross-Cultural Perspective (2016, co-edited with Jeffrey Hamburger), and The Faces of Charisma: Image, Text, Object in Byzantium and the Medieval West (2018, co-edited with Martha Rust).

Symes, Carol
Carol Symes is the Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the history of documentary practices and communication media in medieval Europe.