Background
Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte Miriam was born on June 3, 1953 in Paris. Daughter of Jacques and Anne (Labatcahn) Bedos. came to the United States, 1980.
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By the early 13th century the use of seals in Northern Europe was a generalized phenomenon which involved society as a whole, crossing boundaries of gender, age, religion, and social and professional status. The function traditionally ascribed to seals is the validation of the documents to which they were affixed, but the phenomenon has far wider implications, as is brought out in this collection of studies by Brigitte Bedos-Rezak. In itself a seal could serve as a quasi-amuletic object or a personal adornment, the image impressed from it functioned as a sign conveying identity and power, and the ritual of sealing provided an occasion for the affirmation of status. In her work the author has aimed to use the approaches of statistics, cultural and women’s history and semiotics, as well as the ’traditional’ skills of art history, law and diplomatics, to show the numerous surviving seals can be used to reach into the history of the Middle Ages, and at the same time to explore and test the interpretative models suggested by semiotics and postmodern theories on symbols, representation and meaning.
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Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte Miriam was born on June 3, 1953 in Paris. Daughter of Jacques and Anne (Labatcahn) Bedos. came to the United States, 1980.
Doctor of Philosophy, Ecole Nationale des Chartes, France, 1977.
Archival and curatorial trainee, National Archives of France, Paris, 1977;
head Control Department of Seals, National Archives of France, Paris, 1978-1980;
fellow Department Medieval Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 1982-1987;
adjunct associate professor of history, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1985-1987;
director summer seminar for college teachers, National Endowment for Humanities, 1987;
visiting associate professor of history, U. Maryland., College Park, 1987-1989;
associate professor of history, U. Maryland., College Park, 1989-1994;
director graduate studies department history, U. Maryland., College Park, 1990-1993;
professor of history, U. Maryland., College Park, since 1994;
professor of history, U. Maryland., College Park, since 1994. Reviewer and panelist National Endowment for Humanities Fellowships for University Teachers: Panels on European History, 1988, 89, 90. National Endowment for Humanities grant reveiwer.
Director International Center for Medieval Art, 1990-1993. Mentor for 1991 National Endowment for Humanities/Reader's Digest Teachers-Scholar from District of Columbia, 1991-1992. External reviewer Medieval Institute's Grad.Program, U. Notre Dame, 1993.
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Member American History Association, Association of French Archivists, International Center for Medieval Art, Majestas, Medieval Academy of America, Society for French History Studies, Société de l'Ecole des Chartes, Société française d'héraldique et de sigillographie, Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France.
Married Ira Loeb Rezak, September 6, 1980.