Three-day international conference aims to foster a discussion about seals and status concentrating on three broad themes: seals and social status, seals and institutional status, and the status of seals as objects
Seals and Status 800-1700
Stevenson Lecture Theatre, The British Museum, London
04.12.2015 – 06.12.2015
Jointly organised by the British Museum and Sigillvm, this three-day international conference aims to foster a discussion about seals and status concentrating on three broad themes: social status, institutional status, and the status of seals as objects. Keynote speakers will include Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, David Crouch, Sandy Heslop and Adrian Ailes.
Themed sessions will include images and cultural history, politics, power and people, and ownership, authority and function. Speakers will include Simon Keynes, Nicholas Vincent, John Cherry, Martin Henig, Jessica Berenbeim, Ambre Vilain and Annabel Gallop.
This conference is generously supported by Dr John Rassweiler and organised collaboratively between the British Museum and Sigillvm with John Cherry and Jessica Berenbeim.
Contact:
ldebeer(at)britishmuseum.org
READ MORE:
Good impressions. Image and authority in Medieval seals
Edited by Noël Adams, John Cherry and James Robinson
British Museum Research Publication 168
ISBN 978-086159-168-8
© The Trustees of the British Museum 2008
Available as download.
FEATURED PHOTO:
The seal(s) of Robert fitz Walter © British Museum. The seals are the subject of a paper presented by Nicholas Vincent, University of East Anglia