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Heraldic imagery in seventeenth-century English poetry
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 Jonson and Jolin Cleveland. The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate the existence and significance of heraldic references in a wider range of seventeenth-century verse and poetry. It eschews assumptions regarding the use of heraldry by, or with reference to, a narrow social elite, and examines heraldic references published in broadsheets and used in songs, as well as in the privately- circulated manuscripts of the nobility. Chapter One offers a critical examination of a range of current scholarship concerned with heraldic readings of literature. Chapter Two demonstrates that formal heraldic references, affirming or celebrating their subject’s identity, were used in diverse genres, including dedicatory verses.
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Staroskolskaia (Ryzhova), Daria "Modern Criticism of Earlier Heraldic Sources." ISTORIYA. 11.9 (95) (2020).
The main concern of the article is the reevaluation of significance and potential of earlier heraldic textual sources. In opposition to “classic” views of purposes and authorship of first armorials, narrative sources of non-heraldic character may change our ideas of heraldic environment of the 13th century. The fact that correct blazon can be found in a number of poems and romances can be interpreted as a proof that heraldic knowledge was available not only to heralds, as it is now widely accepted, but also to the poets who could use it for their literary goals. And what is of more importance it suggests that the audience was able to perceive the blazon in the text and probably it was their demand.
Download Free PDF View PDF Download Free PDF View PDFHeraldic images pervaded early modern politics. In particular, the king’s bearings embodied sovereignty and advanced dynastic claims. They became the stuff of legends, as well as the cause of fierce disputes. But when did heraldic adaptation occur? Why was a disrespectful treatment damaging to the political fabric? By comparing armorial appropriation in the French and Spanish monarchies, Steven Thiry challenges the dominant view of princely image control. Eagles, lilies and lions not only visualized political virtues and vices. Their visual and material dimension imbued them with an agency of their own. Matter(s) of State offers a new insight into the symbolic mindset of the political process. Mystical exaltation, subversive adaptation, and even violent »heraldic« iconoclasm appear as significant means of debating and even questioning rule.
Download Free PDF View PDFEmblems and Enigma: The Heraldic Imagination. London Society of Antiquaries, 26 April 2014
Download Free PDF View PDFEvidently, a coat of arms is associated with an image, and heraldry is primarily a system of visual signs. However, not long after appearance of first coats of arms painted on shields, they started to be described by means of language and thus their verbal equivalent, blazon, appeared. Heraldic signs in a textual form easily found their way into contemporary narratives. The research of narrative heraldic sources started only in the early 20 th century, and studies of blazon are relatively few compared to the massive of works on heraldry. However, heraldic narrations can become a source of completely new data. Modern heraldic science addresses deeper anthropologic issues, and besides the arms themselves, it investigates the cultural and social aspects of their application. Visual sources are not always able to fulfill such needs. Thus, the research of heraldry in literature of different epochs is a promising direction, further forming our idea of coats of arms in historical context.
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Review of Steven Thiry and Luc Duerloo, eds, Heraldic hierarchies. Identity, status and state intervention in early modern heraldry (Louvain: Leuven University Press, 2021, 273 p., ill.).
Download Free PDF View PDF Download Free PDF View PDFHeralds and heraldry are generally thought to have a close, even essential relationship, dating back to their origins. However, recent research on the office of heralds has demonstrated that this close connection between ‘heralds’ and ‘heraldry’ did not exist in the Middle Ages, and that for the most part the two institutions developed independently of each other. Only over the course of the history of the herald’s office—and only at the end of the Middle Ages—did heraldry become one of their more important duties. Our understanding of ‘the herald’ as a historical phenomenon, therefore, has to be reconsidered in the same way as the proliferation and impact of heraldry as a means of communication in the Middle Ages needs to be reevaluated. Such insights allow the herald’s office to be reconsidered in its own right, separately from heraldry, and heraldry to be assessed as a means of mass communication that was available to the whole of medieval society, far from being the ‘secret science’ of heralds. But how did the misconception that equated and confused ‘heralds’ and ‘heraldry’ originate? In this paper, I suggest three reasons for the tendency of modern historiography to run together heralds and heraldry. The first reasons lies in the shared historical roots of heralds and heraldry: They both came to life in the context of the twelfth century tournaments, which lured historians into equating them from their very beginning. Although their common origins are evident, I argue that at the time heraldry was not at all the heralds’ primary occupation. The second reason that seems to be responsible for the misconception is the etymological origin of both terms. Here, I demonstrate that the definition of ‘heraldry’ as the study or science of coats of arms is in fact a modern interpretation that did not(!) exist in the Middle Ages, where ‘heraldry’ (if used at all) had a much broader sense. The third reason, finally, lies in the fact that for a long time heralds were almost exclusively studied by heraldists who, following their research interests, were primarily concerned with coats of arms. This misconception of the relationship between ‘heralds’ and ‘heraldry’ points to the importance of close sensitivity to the evolving terminological and historiographical background, and invites us to reconsider our perspectives on heralds and heraldry.
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