Studies in Byzantine sigillography 11
by Cheynet, Jean-Claude, Sode, Claudia, Association internationale des études byzantines, Papadopoulou, Pagona, Laboratoire Orient et Méditerranée (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), Institut universitaire de France, International Colloquium on Byzantine Sigillography, Iōannina, Greece)
For several years now, sigillography as an independent subarea in the field of Byzantine studies has received increasing attention from both Byzantine studies and related disciplines, as it is the only area still able to provide academia with large amounts of material not previo…
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