
Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- List of Contributors
- Chapter 1: This is a seal
- Chapter 2: The seals of King Henry II and his court
- Chapter 3: The declaration on the Norman Church (1205): a study in Norman sigillography
- Chapter 4: Making an impression: seals as signifiers of individual and collective rank in the upper aristocracy in England and the Empire in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
- Chapter 5: Making a mark in medieval London: the social and economic status of seal-makers
- Chapter 6: Seals and stars. Law, magic, and the bureaucratic process (twelfth-thirteenth centuries)
- Chapter 7: Governmental seals of Richard I
- Chapter 8: Seals and the law in thirteenth century England
- Chapter 9: Iustitia, notaries and lawyers: the law and seals in late medieval Italy
- Chapter 10: Family identity: the seals of the Longespées
- Chapter 11: (Un)conventional images. A case-study of radial motifs on personal seals
- Chapter 12: Memorialising the Glorious Past. Thirteenth-century seals from English cathedral priories and their artistic contexts
- Chapter 13: Putting seals on the map: Francis Blomefield's Plan of the City of Norwich, 1746, and the constitution of civic history
- Chapter 14: Seal finds in Wales
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