Seals to shed light on life in Wales in Middle Ages
HISTORIANS will be reviewing more than 5,000 medieval seals relating to Wales, held at the National Library of Wales, as part of a new research project.
The team from Bangor and Aberystwyth Universities will look at the seals – used to authenticate and close documents – to find out what they actually tell us about the people who commissioned them, interpreting how they saw themselves and wanted others to see them and what they can tell us about the society that produced them.
Uniquely, one strand of the project will also be concentrating on images of medieval women.
I have too many puns that could be lobbed at this so I shall defer.
Rusty | 24-Mar-09 at 8:33 pm | Permalink
He told me I’d blown a seal.
I said, ‘fix the damn thing and leave my private life out of it, okay pal?’