A Heraldic Miscellany

Fifteenth-Century Treatises on Blazon and the Office of Arms in English and Scots

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2018
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-78138-248-6 (ISBN)

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The fifteenth-century texts edited here for the first time describe the changing relationship between heraldic design and heralds themselves. They describe the rules of heraldry and the meaning of colours and charges, the diplomatic and martial roles performed by heralds, and the imagined, illustrious history of the office of arms.

It is difficult to envision the Middle Ages without heraldry; knights and ladies are routinely depicted with elaborate arms gracing their shields and clothing. The herald himself is also pervasive in the popular imagination, as he announces the arrival of some grandee. Edited here for the first time are some of the texts which detail the relationship between heraldic design and working heralds. That relationship changed dramatically over the fifteenth century as heralds claimed the right to design, interpret and grant arms according to an elaborate interpretive system. These texts, the work of clerics, heralds and even a future pope, describe the rules of heraldic design and the meaning of colours and charges. They also focus on the role of the herald himself, whether he is serving as a political or personal confidant, or organizing a trial by combat. Finally, they outline an imagined history of the office of arms, claiming that the herald’s authority could be traced to Julius Caesar, the Trojan hero Hector, or even the god Dionysus. These texts, little known in contemporary scholarship, provide valuable insight into the intellectual and visual culture of fifteenth-century chivalric society.

Richard J. Moll is Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. His previous publications include an edition of William Caxton’s The Booke of Ovyde Named Methamorphose (Bodleian Library, 2013) and Before Malory: Reading Arthur in Later Medieval England (University of Toronto Press, 2003).

Acknowledgements
List of figures
List of abbreviations
1. General Introduction
2. Johannes de Bado Aureo’s Tractatus de armis
Introduction
b) Text
3. Eneas Silvio Piccolomini’s Eneas de heraldis
a) Introduction
b) Text
4. Dionisius, furst institutore
a) Introduction
b) Text
5. Adam Loutfut’s manuscript
a) Loutfut Introduction
Þe lawe of armes within listis
b) Introduction
c) Text
The Persewant
d) Introduction
e) Text
The Origynall Determynyng of Blasonyng of Armes
f) Introduction
g) Text
Works Cited
Glossary
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.08.2018
Reihe/Serie	Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
Zusatzinfo	colour illustrations
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	English, Middle (1100-1500)
Maße	163 x 239 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Heraldik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-78138-248-4 / 1781382484
ISBN-13	978-1-78138-248-6 / 9781781382486
Zustand	Neuware