Traktat o medalji – Treći memorijal Ive Kordića

The theoretical segments of this book are based on the synthesis of the study of medal-making with the principles and methods of semiology: namely, Mesinger elaborated his theoretical discussion on the medal in a completely original way - using the theory of signs. Semantic analysis and semiological approach to the medal phenomenon derive from the author's domiciled scientific field of activity, philology. Mesinger's comprehensive study is a polyvalent, interdisciplinary treatise that unites different fields, methodologies and discourses - historical art, historical, anthropological, linguistic, semiological - and this with an authentic stylistic expression where the expert-scientific form of presentation is combined with the author's characteristic prose and even poetic style. In a lucid and intriguing way, the author shows how, through the mediation of a today marginal and marginalized, but by no means minor (despite its metric dimensions) medium, a special symbol-making microcosm was established during the centuries long past as a credible reflection, but also a value standard of an entire history and culture.