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Heraldic Hierarchies
Author | : Steven Thiry,Luc Duerloo |
Publsiher | : Leuven University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2021-06-01 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9789462702431 |
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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.
Orders and Hierarchies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Author | : Jeffrey Howard Denton |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802082645 |
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Essays from a range of disciplines examine different, but linked aspects of the social organization of Europe from the 13th to 16th centuries.
The Waxing of the Middle Ages
Author | : Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier,Tracy Adams |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2023-04-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781644532928 |
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Johan Huizinga’s much-loved and much-contested Autumn of the Middle Ages, first published in 1919, encouraged an image of the Late French Middle Ages as a flamboyant but empty period of decline and nostalgia. Many studies, particularly literary studies, have challenged Huizinga’s perceptions of individual works or genres. Still, the vision of the Late French and Burgundian Middle Ages as a sad transitional phase between the High Middle Ages and the Renaissance persists. Yet, a series of exceptionally significant cultural developments mark the period. The Waxing of the Middle Ages sets out to provide a rich, complex, and diverse study of these developments and to reassert that late medieval France is crucial in its own right. The collection argues for an approach that views the late medieval period not as an afterthought, or a blind spot, but as a period that is key in understanding the fluidity of time, traditions, culture, and history. Each essay explores some “cultural form,” to borrow Huizinga’s expression, to expose the false divide that has dominated modern scholarship.
Art Patronage and Conflicting Memories in Early Modern Iberia
Author | : Maria Teresa Chicote Pompanin |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2023-12-20 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781003831617 |
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This volume investigates the mechanisms (artworks, treatises, and other forms of cultural patronage) that the Marquises of Villena and their opponents used to operate in the cultural battlefield of the time with the aim of understanding how their conflicting historical memories were constructed and manipulated. Concentrating on the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the book examines these two aristocrats and demonstrates that political tensions led not only to military conflicts during this period but also to conflicts fought on cultural grounds, through the promotion of artistic, religious, and literary programmes. Maria Teresa Chicote Pompanin investigates why the Marquises of Villena lost in both the military and cultural battlefields and explains how the negative historical memories forged by their opponents in the late fifteenth century managed to become the official historical truth that has remained unchallenged to this day. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, cultural history, medieval studies, Renaissance studies, Iberian studies, literary studies, and patronage studies.
Heraldry Pageantry and Social Display in Medieval England
Author | : Peter R. Coss,Maurice Keen |
Publsiher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1843830361 |
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Discussion of display through a range of artefacts and in a variety of contexts: family and lineage, social distinction and aspiration, ceremony and social bonding, and the expression of power and authority. Medieval culture was intensely visual. Although this has long been recognised by art historians and by enthusiasts for particular media, there has been little attempt to study social display as a subject in its own right. And yet, display takes us directly into the values, aspirations and, indeed, anxieties of past societies. In this illustrated volume a group of experts address a series of interrelated themes around the issue of display and do so in a waywhich avoids jargon and overly technical language. Among the themes are family and lineage, social distinction and aspiration, ceremony and social bonding, and the expression of power and authority. The media include monumental effigies, brasses, stained glass, rolls of arms, manuscripts, jewels, plate, seals and coins. Contributors: MAURICE KEEN, DAVID CROUCH, PETER COSS, CAROLINE SHENTON, ADRIAN AILES, FRÉDÉRIQUE LACHAUD, MARIAN CAMPBELL, BRIAN and MOIRA GITTOS, NIGEL SAUL, FIONN PILBROW, CAROLINE BARRON and JOHN WATTS.
Heraldry English and Foreign
Author | : Robert Charles Jenkins |
Publsiher | : London, K. Paul, Trench & Company |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : Heraldry |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HN5G96 |
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English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century
Author | : A. Brady |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2006-06-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230554870 |
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This book analyzes the political, aesthetic, moral and religious developments in the period 1606-1660 and discusses the works of Donne, Jonson, Milton and early modern women's writing. Brady combines Literary Theory, social and cultural History, Psychology and Anthropology to produce exciting and original readings of neglected source material.
A Complete Guide to Heraldry
Author | : Arthur Charles Fox-Davies |
Publsiher | : Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Total Pages | : 684 |
Release | : 2007-05-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1602390010 |
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The study of family crests and medieval coats of arms, is a science and art steeped in the tradition of familial honor and shaped by the cords of ancestry and origin. This book deciphers the world of symbols, knights, and history, bringing back a time when all gentlemen were soldiers and a coat of arms was the most cherished heirloom.