The third book in the Brill Visualising the Middle Ages series delivers just what its publication mandate promises: a multifaceted vision of medieval thought. Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak presents an argument grounded in a stated desire to better understand the vision of personification, representation and authority invested in the seal. In the introduction to the book, the author explains that this task requires the use of a “...diverse range of interpretive tools derived from diplomatics, semiotic anthropology, cultural history, material culture, and literary criticism” (p.4).