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From Introspection to Self-Exposure in the Middle AgesComing out of the MEDIEVARS (Medieval and Renaissant Self-Representation) research project, this paper highlights the variety of concepts and practices in medieval self-representation. Following clarification of concepts of the person, as individual and as subject, the paper reviews the expressions – literary and pictorial, symbolic and figurative – that are evidence of self-reflection aimed at public exhibition of the self. Seals, signatures, coats of arms, devices, paintings, illuminations, statuaries, and literary self-portraits are combined because of the intentionality they presuppose. They make it possible to assess the emergence of personal awareness and the need to use interdisciplinarity to understand it in proper context. Without being exhaustive, the corpus is representative; though limited to France from the 12th to the 15th centuries, it does not ignore the influence of foreign models (Italy, Germany, Holland).