Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak

Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak is a historian of medieval northern France. She has been a professor of history at New York University since 2002.

Bedos-Rezak focuses on medieval seals, studying what they can tell us about the culture that produced them and the individuals who used them. She researches how the meaning and significance of seals has changed over time and what those changes can tell us about personal and social identity. More generally, she is an expert in semiotics, i.e., how signs are constructed and function metaphorically and actually in religious and other contexts.

Philippa Hoskin and Elizabeth New called her work on seals as "pioneering", noting how both the matrix and the impression express the owner's will. Provided by Wikipedia