Tag: Medieval seals

Seals and Sealing Practices

 

Medieval seal matrix from Alderley Edge in Cheshire.
Medieval seal matrix from Alderley Edge in Cheshire.

A conference about Seals and sealing practices will be held at the British Museum from the 4th – 6th December 2015.

This conference is co-organised by John Cherry and Jessica Berenbeim in collaboration with Sigillvm, a network for the study of medieval European seals and sealing practices.

The aim of this conference is to foster discussions about seals and status, concentrating on three principal themes:

I. Seals and social status

II. Seals and institutional status

III. The status of seals as objects

there isn’t a website to visit to obtain more information but on the mailing I recieved it says that proposals are welcomed from a wide range of perspectives, such as: archaeology, history, art history, archival studies, literature and that submissions (in English, French, and German and no more than 300 words in length) should be sent to Lloyd de Beer (ldebeer@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk) by 30th January 2015.