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Seals Making and Marking Connections across the Medieval World
Title
Seals [electronic resource] : Making and Marking Connections across the Medieval World / edited by Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak.
ISBN
9781641892575
9781641892568
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Leeds [England] : Arc Humanities Press, [2018] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (ix, 245 pages) :) illustrations.
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Summary
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.
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Project MUSE - 2019 Complete
Project MUSE - 2019 History
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 09, 2019
Series
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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