{"id":21449,"date":"2026-05-03T03:14:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T03:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=21449"},"modified":"2026-05-03T03:14:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T03:14:49","slug":"sorenson-2026-congress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/sorenson-2026-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorenson (2026 Congress)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">David W. Sorenson<br \/>\n(<em>Allen Berman, Numismatist<\/em>)<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Abstract of Paper<br \/>\npresented at the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies<br \/>\n(Kalamazoo, 2026)<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2026-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2026 International Congress on Medieval Studies: Program<\/a><\/h4>\n<h3>Session on<br \/>\n&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/icms.confex.com\/icms\/2026\/prelim.cgi\/Index\/SponsorList~Postal%20History%20at%20Kalamazoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moving the Mail: Letters, Couriers, and Post Offices in the Medieval World<\/a><strong>&#8220;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sponsored by <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Postal History at Kalamazoo<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Organized by<\/h4>\n<h3>David W. Sorenson (<em>Allen Berman, Numismatist<\/em>)<br \/>\nMildred Budny (<em>Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/em>)<\/h3>\n<h3>Paper Title:<\/h3>\n<h2>&#8220;The Livery of Delivery:<br \/>\nSome Depictions of Letter-Carriers<br \/>\nin Seventeenth- and Sixteenth-Century Paris&#8221;<\/h2>\n<h3>Abstract:<\/h3>\n<p>From the fifteenth century to the present postal services have dressed their personnel in various identifying ways<br \/>\n(&#8220;uniforms&#8221;). References to these uniforms are few and far between, but some do exist, and we will be able to<br \/>\nexamine a few of these to see what they can tell us, especially by reference to modern practice.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David W. Sorenson (Allen Berman, Numismatist) Abstract of Paper presented at the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 2026) 2026 International Congress on Medieval Studies: Program Session on &#8220;Moving the Mail: Letters, Couriers, and Post Offices in the Medieval World&#8220; Sponsored by Research Group on Manuscript Evidence Postal History at Kalamazoo Organized by David [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1023,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21451,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21449\/revisions\/21451"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}