When ego was imago signs of identity in the Middle Ages - Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte 1953- (Brill, 2011)
Twelfth-century individuals negotiated personal relationships along a continuum connecting rather than polarizing immediacy and mediated representation. Their markers of individuation, signs of identity and media of communication thus evidence practical engagement with contemporary medieval sign theory and perceptions of reality. In this study, the relevance of modern theory for the interpretation of medieval artifacts is shown to depend upon the parallel existence of theoretical activity by the producers and users of such artifacts
pt. 1. Sources and methods -- pt. 2. Imago -- pt. 3. Ego