Companion to Seals in the Middle Ages

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).

''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.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsContributorsIntroduction: Approaches to Medieval Seals and Sealing PracticesLaura J. WhatleyPART 1Materiality and Seals1 Analysis of the Materiality of Royal and Governmental Seals of England with a Focus on the Great Seals (1100–1300): Methodology and FindingsElke Cwiertnia, Adrian Ailes and Paul Dryburgh2 Material Analysis of the Seals Attached to the Barons’ Letter to the PopePaul Dryburgh, Elke Cwiertnia and Adrian Ailes3 Does Size Matter? Social Standing and Seal Dimensions in Medieval BritainJohn McEwanPART 2Historiography and Seals4 Fragments of the Past: The Early Antiquarian Perception and Study of Seals in EnglandOliver D. Harris5 Medieval Armorial Seals in The National Archives (UK)Adrian AilesPART 3Seals in Bureaucracy and Diplomatic6 The Seals of the Judges of the Hippodrome: Drawing Data from Seals Without ContextJonathan Shea7 Administration and Identity: Episcopal Seals in England from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth CenturyPhilippa HoskinPART 4Power and Aspiration on Medieval Seals8 Power, Family, and Identity: Social and Individual Elements in Byzantine SigillographyAngelina Anne Volkoff9 Two Seals of Muskinus the Jew (Moshe b. Yeḥiel, d. 1336), The Archbishop of Trier’s NegociatorAndreas Lehnertz10 ‘Creatio Regni’ in the Great Seal of Bosnian King Tvrtko KotromanićEmir O. FilipovićPART 5Elusive Seal Owners and Users11 Reconsidering the Silent Majority: Non- Heraldic Personal Seals in Medieval BritainElizabeth New12 The Seals of Knights’ Wives in Medieval SilesiaMarek L. WójcikPART 6Visual Culture and Seals13 Coins as Seals in Lombard ItalyAshley Jones14 The Use of Ancient Gems and Coins: A Noticeable Presence of Antiquity in Medieval SigillographyCaroline SimonetSelect Bibliography