When Ego Was Imago : Signs of Identity in the Middle Ages
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| Title: | When Ego Was Imago : Signs of Identity in the Middle Ages |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Brigitte Bedos-Rezak |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Visual communication--Europe--History--To 1500, Signs and symbols--Social aspects--Europe--History--To 1500, Individuality--Europe--History--To 1500, Interpersonal communication--Europe--History--To 1500, Middle Ages--Sources, Middle Ages, Charters--Europe--History--To 1500, Identity (Psychology)--Europe--History--To 1500, Seals (Numismatics)--Europe--History--To 1500 |
| Categories: | ART / Movements / Medieval, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9789004192171 9789004192256 |
