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When ego was imago : signs of identity in the Middle Ages / Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte.
- Series:
- Visualising the Middle Ages ; 3.
- Visualising the Middle Ages, 1874-0448 ; v. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle Ages.
- Middle Ages--Sources.
- Charters--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Charters.
- Seals (Numismatics)--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Seals (Numismatics).
- Identity (Psychology)--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Signs and symbols--Social aspects--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Signs and symbols.
- Visual communication--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Visual communication.
- Individuality--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Individuality.
- Interpersonal communication--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Interpersonal communication.
- Europe--Social conditions--To 1492.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxix, 295 pages, 23 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Twelfth-century individuals negotiated personal relationships along a continuum connecting rather than polarizing immediacy and mediated representation. Their markers of individuation, signs of identity and media of communication thus evidence practical engagement with contemporary medieval sign theory and perceptions of reality. In this study, the relevance of modern theory for the interpretation of medieval artifacts is shown to depend upon the parallel existence of theoretical activity by the producers and users of such artifacts. In the cultural landscape of the central Middle Ages, the axes of iconicity, semantics and materiality traced by charters, seals, and by both concrete and metaphorical images of the imprint, dynamically shaped the boundaries within which a sense of self was formulated, modulated, experienced, and enacted.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Sources and methods
- pt. 2. Imago
- pt. 3. Ego.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-12040-2
- 9786613120403
- 90-04-19225-5
- OCLC:
- 727951334
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9789004192171.i-322 DOI
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