The Heraldry of the Weavers’ Guild of Augsburg: Mythical Origins and Everyday Display of Corporate Heraldry in Clemens Jäger’s 'Weberchronik'

Fig. 1: The coat of arms of the weavers’ guild. Image from: Langenmantel, David, Historie des Regiments in des Heil. Röm. Reichs Stadt Augspurg [etc.] (Frankfurt [Oder]; Leipzig, 1725), plate m.Clemens Jäger’s Weberchronik [1], a sixteenth-century chronicle dedicated to the history of the weavers’ guild of Augsburg, is a formidable example to demonstrate how urban chronicles can be used to analyse the importance of heraldry in urban society, especially in terms of coats of arms as an element ..