Brigitte Bedos-Rezak
Series
Medieval globe volume Volume 4
Publisher
ARC Humanities Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
By placing medieval sealing practices in a global and comparative perspective, the essays gathered in this volume challenge the traditional understanding of seals as tools of closure and validation in use since the dawn of civilization. Far from being a universal technique, sealing is revealed as a flexible idiom, selectively deployed to mediate entangled identities: the introduction of Buddhism in early medieval China; the Islamization of Sasanian...
Series
Explorations in medieval culture volume Volume 9
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English