2 mai 2018
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Markus Spath, « The body and its parts iconographical metaphors of corporate identity in 13th century common seals », Publications de l’Institut de recherches historiques du Septentrion, ID : 10670/1.taysar
When corporations started adopting seals as authentification instruments of their charter communication from the 12th century onwards, the identification between the seal’s holder and the person represented on the seal’s surface, which by then had been characteristic for personal seals for centuries, became obsolete. However, a religious community could adopt the image of its patron saint in the manner of a personal seal. But in this case the legal owner of the house was transformed into an i...