1st Edition
Form and Order in Medieval France Studies in Social and Quantitative Sigillography
By Brigitte Bedos–Rezak
Copyright 1993
328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
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By the early 13th century the use of seals in Northern Europe was a generalized phenomenon which involved society as a whole, crossing boundaries of gender, age, religion, and social and professional status. The function traditionally ascribed to seals is the validation of the documents to which they were affixed, but the phenomenon has far wider implications, as is brought out in this collection... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Signes et insignes du pouvoir royal et seigneurial au Moyen Age: le témoignage des sceaux; Les sceaux au temps de Philippe Auguste; Idéologie royale, ambitions princières et rivalités politiques d’après le témoignage des sceaux (France, 1380-1461); The King enthroned, a new theme an Anglo-Saxon royal iconography: the seal of Edward the Confessor and its political implications; Suger and the symbolism of royal power: the seal of Louis VII; The social implications of the art of chivalry: the sigillographic evidence (France, 1050-1250); L’apparition des armoiries sur les sceaux en Ile-de-France et en Picardie (1130-1230); Sceaux seigneuriaux et structures sociales en Dauphiné de 1170 à 1349; Women, seals and power in medieval France, 1150-1350; Medieval women in French sigillographic sources; Les sceaux juifs français; Towns and seals: representation and signification in medieval France; Index to seal illustrations; general Index.
Biography
Brigitte Bedos–Rezak
