‘Sealing (in the) Border: Seals and sealing practices in the medieval Welsh Marches’

Mortimer Society Lectures

Dr Elizabeth New, Aberystwyth University 

The paper will consider the ‘sealing culture’ of the medieval Marches and parts of south Wales under Anglo-Norman influence, with a particular focus on the manufacture and availability of seal matrices, and by whom they were used, and what this reveals about trade, communication, and regional and local identity. 

Dr Elizabeth New is Reader in Medieval History at Aberystwyth University, and currently holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. Elizabeth has been involved in two major AHRC seal-related projects, including as Co-Investigator for Imprint https://www.imprintseals.org/, and has published widely on British seals and sealing practices, and on Christocentric devotion in medieval England and Wales. 

Meeting ID:  892 5053 0295 
Passcode: 374055