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21 septembre 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.efr.41615
- isbn: 9782728315611
- eisbn: 9782728315628
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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diplomatics documentary practices iconoclasm identity images middle ages personhood law semiotics seals sigillography droit à l’image droit et art communication visuelle Art Law (General) SOC000000 GTGSujets proches
Medieval history History, Medieval Middle Ages--History Medieval period World history, Medieval Dark Ages Legislative acts Legislative enactments Acts, Legislative Enactments, Legislative Laws (Statutes) Western art (Western countries) Fine arts Iconography Arts, Fine Art, Occidental Arts, Visual Visual arts Occidental art Art, Visual Art, Western (Western countries) ArtsCiter ce document
Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak, « Broken seals, defaced images », Publications de l’École française de Rome, ID : 10.4000/books.efr.41615
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Images and iconographic objects, such as coins, weights, jetons, pilgrim badges and seal-matrices were broken and buried on a large scale during the European Middle Ages (11th-15th centuries). In this essay, the focus on the circumstances and the manner in which seal-matrices were broken into fragments and discarded casts light on a particular medieval understanding of the overlapping boundaries of human and artefactual agency. Specifically, the imprinting process at work in the production of seal impressions created a logic of replication that assigned to the imprints the status of originals and the task of verification. The destruction of Seal-matrices, thus, targeted replication, a technique that, experienced as empowering the agency of replicated objects, was also capable of substituting for personal intentionality.