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By the early 13th century the use of seals in Northern Europe was a
generalized phenomenon which involved society as a whole, crossing
boundaries of gender, age, religion, and social and professional
status. The function traditionally ascribed to seals is the
validation of the documents to which they were affixed, but the
phenomenon has far wider implications, as is brought out in this
collection of studies by Brigitte Bedos-Rezak. In itself a seal
could serve as a quasi-amuletic object or a personal adornment, the
image impressed from it functioned as a sign conveying identity and
power, and the ritual of sealing provided an occasion for the
affirmation of status. In her work the author has aimed to use the
approaches of statistics, cultural and women's history and
semiotics, as well as the 'traditional' skills of art history, law
and diplomatics, to show the numerous surviving seals can be used
to reach into the history of the Middle Ages, and at the same time
to explore and test the interpretative models suggested by
semiotics and postmodern theories on symbols, representation and
meaning.
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