Contents

Introduction Phillipp R. Schofield

List of Contributors

1. This is a seal

P. D. A. Harvey

I. SEALS, STATUS AND POWER

2. The seals of King Henry II and his court

Nicholas Vincent

3. The declaration on the Norman Church (1205): a study in Norman sigillography

Daniel Power

4. Making an impression: seals as signifiers of individual and collective rank in the upper aristocracy in England and the Empire in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

Jörg Peltzer

5.  Making a mark in medieval London: the social and economic status of seal-makers

John McEwan

II. SEALS, LAW AND PRACTICE

6. Seals and stars. Law, magic, and the bureaucratic process (twelfth–thirteenth centuries)

Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak

7. Governmental seals of Richard I

Adrian Ailes

8. Seals and the law in thirteenth century England

Paul Brand

9. Iustitia, notaries and lawyers: the law and seals in late medieval Italy

John Cherry

10. Family identity: the seals of the Longespées

Brian Kemp

III. SEALS, SOURCES AND THEIR CONTEXT

11.  (Un)conventional images. A case-study of radial motifs on personal seals

Elizabeth A. New

12.  Memorialising the Glorious Past. Thirteenth-century seals from English cathedral priories and their artistic contexts

Markus Späth

13.  Putting seals on the map: Francis Blomefield’s Plan of the City of Norwich, 1746, and the constitution of civic history

T. A. Heslop and Matthew Sillence

14.  Seal finds in Wales

David H. Williams