Early modern heraldry was far from a nostalgic remnant from a feudal past. From the Reformation to the French Revolution, aspiring men seized on these signs to position themselves in a changing society, imbuing heraldic tradition with fresh meaning. Whereas post-medieval develop…
Early modern heraldry was far from a nostalgic remnant from a feudal past. From the Reformation to the French Revolution, aspiring men seized on these signs to position themselves in a changing society, imbuing heraldic tradition with fresh meaning. Whereas post-medieval develop…
Rich sourcebook of approximately 500 black-and-white designs traces history and meaning of the shield, symbols, crests, helmets, and blazonry, with special emphasis on such devices as beasts, monsters, human, and part-human figures. American, British, French, and Russian costs o…
Contains over five hundred drawings that describe and trace the history and heraldry of shields, crests, helmets, blazonry, and symbols in addition to the coats of arms for American, British, French, Russian and other nations.
An illustrated exploration of the design, meaning and symbolism of world football club crests. From the royal crown on the crest of Real Madrid to the riveting hammers of West Ham United, via Valencia's bat design and German club St Pauli's skull and cross bones emblem, behind e…
"An illustrated exploration of the design, meaning and symbolism of world football club crests. From the royal crown on the crest of Real Madrid to the riveting hammers of West Ham United, via Valencia's bat design and German club St Pauli's skull and cross bones emblem, behind …
An investigation into three of the best-known cases tried under the Court of Chivalry reveals much about gentry military society.
The subject of the dissertation is a book entitled Le blason des couleurs en armes, liurees et deuises which was printed by Pierre Sergent in 1505. The book, which contains two treatises, Le blason des couleurs en armes, liurees et deuises and Des couleurs en general et especial…
The significance of heraldic references in literature has been the subject of both antiquarian interest and recent scholarship. In the field of seventeenth-century poetry, there exists a small body of published work concerned with the use of heraldry by William Shakespeare, Ben …