[Project:] In the service of the Crown: The use of heraldry in royal political communication in late medieval Portugal

The Sala dos Brasões in the royal palace in Sintra, ca. 1515-1518. (Photo: HenGomes via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) Portuguese heraldry seems to have taken a rather peculiar development. Compared to other regions like France, England and Germany, in Portugal heraldry evolved quite late and astonishingly different. Despite the wealth of the sources and the surprising insights it could provide, heraldic communication in late medieval Portugal remains understudied, particularly in the rest ..