The present study builds on Michel Pastoureau’s views about the origins of heraldry by proposing a reframing of the “ appearance phase” of heraldry. It is chiefly based on an updated catalogue of the earliest identifiable seals with heraldic or pre-heraldic emblems (presented in Part 1). The new data (as explored in Part 2) allow us to reaffirm the existence of a northern cradle for heraldry, which can be located in eastern Picardy and is visible from the 1110s onwards. It was further developed after 1130 in southern England, a development which can be accounted for by the links between prominent aristocratic families in the two regions, men who were responsible for popularizing the new fashion within the upper nobility. In Part 3 it is arg...
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze and discuss the changing ways in which the visual art of he...
International audienceAt the end of the Middle Ages, both theory and practice develops a specific he...
Feudal nobility and ruling dynasties are social categories which we would expect to use heraldry in ...
Heraldic Strategies and Changes in Coats of Arms Among 14th Century Florentine Magnates. For mediev...
Heraldry was an ubiquitous element of state-rooms. Whether in palaces of kings and princes, castles ...
(version française ; deutsche Fassung) The history of heralds is a largely underexplored one. In spi...
French version below. 18–20 September 2019 Antwerp: Grauwzusters Cloister of the University of Antwe...
Heraldry is a well-defined and, almost by definition, narrow subject; a “feudal language,” with codi...
This thesis brings to light the extraordinary artistic transformation of heraldic imagery in German-...
The question of the number of people allowed a coat of arms has long been debated in the heraldic fi...
(version française ; deutsche Fassung) The history of heralds is a largely underexplored one. In spi...
S. Thiry & L. Duerloo (eds.) Heraldic hierarchies. Identity, status and state intervention in Early ...
Whereas historians and heraldists tend to discuss heraldry in terms of the nobility, this thesis dem...
The debates between historians who study the feudal period,10th-12thc., relate on the seigneurie cas...
This thesis,"The Officers of Arms and Heraldic Art under King James Sixth and First" is contained i...
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze and discuss the changing ways in which the visual art of he...
International audienceAt the end of the Middle Ages, both theory and practice develops a specific he...
Feudal nobility and ruling dynasties are social categories which we would expect to use heraldry in ...
Heraldic Strategies and Changes in Coats of Arms Among 14th Century Florentine Magnates. For mediev...
Heraldry was an ubiquitous element of state-rooms. Whether in palaces of kings and princes, castles ...
(version française ; deutsche Fassung) The history of heralds is a largely underexplored one. In spi...
French version below. 18–20 September 2019 Antwerp: Grauwzusters Cloister of the University of Antwe...
Heraldry is a well-defined and, almost by definition, narrow subject; a “feudal language,” with codi...
This thesis brings to light the extraordinary artistic transformation of heraldic imagery in German-...
The question of the number of people allowed a coat of arms has long been debated in the heraldic fi...
(version française ; deutsche Fassung) The history of heralds is a largely underexplored one. In spi...
S. Thiry & L. Duerloo (eds.) Heraldic hierarchies. Identity, status and state intervention in Early ...
Whereas historians and heraldists tend to discuss heraldry in terms of the nobility, this thesis dem...
The debates between historians who study the feudal period,10th-12thc., relate on the seigneurie cas...
This thesis,"The Officers of Arms and Heraldic Art under King James Sixth and First" is contained i...
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze and discuss the changing ways in which the visual art of he...
International audienceAt the end of the Middle Ages, both theory and practice develops a specific he...
Feudal nobility and ruling dynasties are social categories which we would expect to use heraldry in ...