'Impressing People: seals and the study of non-elite medieval society', University of Lincoln History & Heritage research seminar, 26 April 2017 (original) (raw)

Abstract

'Seals, in the form of engraved stamps (matrices) and the impressions these make into wax, are small packages of image and text with a great deal to offer to those interested in past societies, having both individualised resonances and legal importance. These miniature works of art were owned and used by kings and nobles, bishops and monasteries, but also by merchants and craftsmen, and indeed men and women even at the lowest levels of society. This paper will focus upon what the evidence of seals and sealing practices can tell us about those below the highest levels of society (and why such evidence has been largely ignored for so long), and will incorporate new insights gained from the current AHRC Imprint project.'

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