Abstract
Extensive geographic coverage, including China, South East Asia, Arabia, Sasanian Persia, the Muslim Empire, the Byzantine empire, and Western Europe allows the essays gathered in this volume to offer a well differentiated examination of seals and sealing practices between 400 and 1500 CE. Contributors expose rather than assume the inter-subjective, transnational, and transcultural connectivity at work within the varied processes mediated by seals and sealing – representation, authorization, identification, and transmission. These essays encourage an understanding that seals operated in liminal, transitional situations arising from legal, administrative, martial, mercantile, or diplomatic encounters, creating cross-cultural sealing networks in which adaption and accommodation underlay the force of seals as objects and images that generate
Recommended Citation
Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte M.
(2018)
"Cultural Transactions: An Introduction to Medieval Seals from a Global Perspective,"
The Medieval Globe: Vol. 4:
No.
1, Article 2.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/tmg/vol4/iss1/2