“History of Heralds” Workshop Part II (25-27 March 2015, Münster)

The extent to which heralds contributed to the political and cultural life of the medieval and early modern periods has been underestimated, even neglected by historical scholarship so far. In 2014, the first part of the workshop series "History of Heralds" set out to change this, aiming to establish the foundation towards a renewed study of the function, importance and habitus of heralds from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries, which has remained untapped until now. Scholars from all ov..