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Category : Heraldry
Languages : fr
Pages : 402
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Archives heraldiques suisses
Author: Archives heraldiques suisses
Author: Clovis
Author: Michel RouchePublisher: Presses Paris Sorbonne
ISBN: 9782840500797
Category : History
Languages : fr
Pages : 956
Book Description
Journal
Author: Ex Libris Society (London, England)Publisher:
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Category : Bookplates
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Heraldic Hierarchies
Author: Steven ThiryPublisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9462702438
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
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 developments are all too often described in terms of decadence and stifling formality, recent studies rightly stress the dynamic capacity of bearing arms. Heraldic Hierarchies aims to correct former misconceptions. Contributing authors rethink the influence of shifting notions of nobility on armorial display and expand this topic to heraldry’s share in shaping and contesting status. Moreover, addressing a common thread, the volume explores how emerging states turned the heraldic experience into an instrument of power and policy. Contributing to debates on social and noble identity, Heraldic Hierarchies uncovers a vital and surprising aspect of the pre-modern hierarchical world.
The International Genealogical Directory
Author: The Queen of Sicily and Gothic Stained Glass in Mussy and Tonnerre
Author: Meredith P. LillichPublisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871698834
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Following the death of St. Louis, a new court fashion of ostentatious display was introduced into French stained glass with the advent of Queen Marie de Brabant, who in 1274 became the second wife of St. Louis's heir Philippe le hardi. Little stained glass in this new style survives, since the very motifs that made it different -- large donor 'portraits, ' elaborate heraldry, lavish name-inscriptions -- were targets of vandalism. This study reconstructs two ensembles in the new style, at Mussy-sur-Seine in southern Champagne & at the medieval hospital of Tonnerre in Burgundy. Both can be connected with the extraordinary figure of Marguerite de Bourgogne. Titled the Queen of Sicily, she was a revered agent of Christian charity of the Gothic era. 50+ illustrations.
Author: Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0871693852
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Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Routledge Revivals: Medieval France (1995)
Author: William W. KiblerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351665650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2385
Book Description
First published in 1995, Medieval France: An Encyclopedia is the first single-volume reference work on the history and culture of medieval France. It covers the political, intellectual, literary, and musical history of the country from the early fifth to the late fifteenth century. The shorter entries offer succinct summaries of the lives of individuals, events, works, cities, monuments, and other important subjects, followed by essential bibliographies. Longer essay-length articles provide interpretive comments about significant institutions and important periods or events. The Encyclopedia is thoroughly cross-referenced and includes a generous selection of illustrations, maps, charts, and genealogies. It is especially strong in its coverage of economic issues, women, music, religion and literature. This comprehensive work of over 2,400 entries will be of key interest to students and scholars, as well as general readers.
The Performance of Self
Author: Susan CranePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201701
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture and costume as well as in speech. These events presumed that performance makes a self, in contrast to the modern belief that identity precedes social performance and, indeed, that performance falsifies the true, inner self. Susan Crane resists the longstanding convictions that medieval rituals were trivial affairs, and that personal identity remained unarticulated until a later period. Focusing on England and France during the Hundred Years War, Crane draws on wardrobe accounts, manuscript illuminations, chronicles, archaeological evidence, and literature to recover the material as well as the verbal constructions of identity. She seeks intersections between theories of practice and performance that explain how appearances and language connect when courtiers dress as wild men to interrupt a wedding feast, when knights choose crests and badges to supplement their coats of arms, and when Joan of Arc cross-dresses for the court of inquisition after her capture.