Seals in medieval Wales, 1200-1550 (SiMeW)
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Grant Holder:
Professor Phillipp Schofield
Seals have been used for authentication across different cultures and to validate documents throughout Europe and the wider world for many centuries. Medieval seals provide a special view of institutional and individual concerns and support interdisciplinary interests for today’s researchers at all levels. Seals also offer unique insight into those who used them and the context in which they were used. Yet, though a key resource, they remain an underexploited source of images and words from the past. Seals in Medieval Wales investigates seals from across Wales and the Marches to explore aspects of medieval society and economy, politics, religion and expressions of identity in new ways. While the focus is Wales and its border, SiMeW’s scale will enable this project to inform future studies of the use of seals in the UK and beyond in terms of methodology and the interpretative content of the outputs.
| Project start date: 2009-09 | Project end date: 2012-08 |
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Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Digital resource created:
A searchable record of all the seals recorded by SiMeW will be made publically accessible through CADAIR, Aberystwyth University’s Online Research Repository, at the end of the project, while a significant number of high-resolution images of seals will be hosted by the National Library of Wales. A virtual education pack for teachers and students will also be provided by SiMeW in 2012.
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
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| Principal staff member: | Professor Phillipp Schofield |
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| Author(s) of record | Anna Winterbottom |
| Title | Seals in medieval Wales, 1200-1550 (SiMeW) |
| Record created | 2010-04-27 |
| Record updated | 2011-03-25 11:47 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3653 |
| Citation of record | Anna Winterbottom: Seals in medieval Wales, 1200-1550 (SiMeW). <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3653> created: 2010-04-27, last updated 2011-03-25 11:47 |