Seals and Society by Elizabeth New, John McEwan, Phillipp R. ... - 9781783168750

Seals and SocietyMedieval Wales, the Welsh Marches and their English Border Region\nAuthor(s): Elizabeth New, John McEwan, Phillipp R. Schofield, Sue Johns, Elizabeth New, J. A. McEwan, Phillipp R. Schofield, Sue Johns\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Wales Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: University of Wales Press\nISBN-13: 9781783168750, 978-1783168750\nSynopsis\nSeals and Society arises from a major project investigating seals and their use in medieval Wales, the Welsh March and neighbouring counties in England. The first major study of seals in the context of one part of medieval Western European society, the volume also offers a new perspective on the history of medieval Wales and its periphery by addressing a variety of themes in terms of the insight that seals can offer the historian. Though the present study suggests important regional distinctions in the take-up of seals in medieval Wales, it is also clear that seal usage increased from the later twelfth century a.