Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Contributors
Introduction: Approaches to Medieval Seals and Sealing Practices
Laura J. Whatley
PART 1
Materiality and Seals
1 Analysis of the Materiality of Royal and Governmental Seals of England with a Focus on the Great Seals (1100–1300): Methodology and Findings
Elke Cwiertnia, Adrian Ailes and Paul Dryburgh
2 Material Analysis of the Seals Attached to the Barons’ Letter to the Pope
Paul Dryburgh, Elke Cwiertnia and Adrian Ailes
3 Does Size Matter? Social Standing and Seal Dimensions in Medieval Britain
John McEwan
PART 2
Historiography and Seals
4 Fragments of the Past: The Early Antiquarian Perception and Study of Seals in England
Oliver D. Harris
5 Medieval Armorial Seals in The National Archives (UK)
Adrian Ailes
PART 3
Seals in Bureaucracy and Diplomatic
6 The Seals of the Judges of the Hippodrome: Drawing Data from Seals Without Context
Jonathan Shea
7 Administration and Identity: Episcopal Seals in England from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Century
Philippa Hoskin
PART 4
Power and Aspiration on Medieval Seals
8 Power, Family, and Identity: Social and Individual Elements in Byzantine Sigillography
Angelina Anne Volkoff
9 Two Seals of Muskinus the Jew (Moshe b. Yeḥiel, d. 1336), The Archbishop of Trier’s Negociator
Andreas Lehnertz
10 ‘Creatio Regni’ in the Great Seal of Bosnian King Tvrtko Kotromanić
Emir O. Filipović
PART 5
Elusive Seal Owners and Users
11 Reconsidering the Silent Majority: Non- Heraldic Personal Seals in Medieval Britain
Elizabeth New
12 The Seals of Knights’ Wives in Medieval Silesia
Marek L. Wójcik
PART 6
Visual Culture and Seals
13 Coins as Seals in Lombard Italy
Ashley Jones
14 The Use of Ancient Gems and Coins: A Noticeable Presence of Antiquity in Medieval Sigillography
Caroline Simonet
Select Bibliography

About the Author

Laura J. Whatley, Ph.D. (2010), University of Illinois, is Assistant Professor of Art History at Auburn University Montgomery. She has published articles on crusader and military seals and crusading visual culture in medieval England. She also co-edited the volume The Crusades and Visual Culture (Routledge, 2015).

Reviews

''Un ouvrage transversal, véritable outil de développement de la recherche en sigillographie [...] Clairement présenté et abondamment illustré de nombreuses planches en couleur, cet ouvrage d’une grande richesse intellectuelle est aussi très agréable à consulter. Ainsi, comme son titre l’affirme, il se veut le fidèle compagnon de qui s’intéresse aux sceaux et à la sigillographie, ambitionnant de devenir un indispensable livre de chevet. Il est à espérer qu’il rendra plus accessible encore l’étude des sceaux et suscitera, parmi les professionnels comme les étudiants, de nouvelles et nombreuses recherches dans ce domaine''. Marie-Adélaïde Nielen, in Francia Recensio , 3, 2019.