{"id":13188,"date":"2020-11-20T18:27:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T18:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=13188"},"modified":"2020-11-20T22:27:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T22:27:59","slug":"budny-2021-congress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/budny-2021-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Budny (2021 Congress)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mildred Budny<\/strong>
\n(Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/em>)<\/h2>\n

“Seals, Matrices, and Signatories<\/strong>“<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Abstract of Response
\nIntended<\/em><\/span> To be presented at the 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies [CONGRESS CANCELLED]<\/span>
\n(Kalamazoo, 2020)<\/h3>\n

Rescheduled<\/span> for the 56th International Congress on Medieval Studies
\n(Kalamazoo, 2021)<\/h3>\n

Session II of II on
\n\u201cSeal the Real: Documentary Records, Seals, and Authentications\u201d<\/h4>\n

Part I:\u00a0 Signed & Sealed<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Part II:\u00a0 “\u00d7 Marks the Spot”<\/h4>\n

Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong>
\nOrganized by Mildred Budny
\n2020 Congress Program Archived<\/a> \/ 2020 Congress Program<\/a><\/h4>\n

2021 Congress Program Planning<\/a><\/h4>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/h4>\n

Complementing the other presentations in this pair or series of Sessions on “Seal the Real”, which I have organized, my Response aims briefly to survey some case-studies involving a range of materials and forms of authentications encountered in the long transition to the modern custom of signatures as autographs.\u00a0 The trajectory involves documents (such as charters), correspondence, cartularies, seals, signet rings, and literary and historical works of multiple kinds.<\/p>\n

The papers in the pair of Sessions examine poignant cases from a range of settings.\u00a0 These cases are represented \u2014 or posed \u2014 by<\/p>\n