Heraldic Hierarchies
Leuven University Press (Verlag)
978-94-6270-243-1 (ISBN)
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.
Contributors: Richard Cust (University of Birmingham); Dominique Delgrange (Lille); Luc Duerloo (University of Antwerp); Joseph McMillan (Alexandria VA); Camille Pollet (Universite de Nantes); Antoine Robin (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes); Simon Rousselot (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes); Clement Savary (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes); Hamish Scott (Jesus College, Oxford); Steven Thiry (University of Antwerp); Jose Manuel Valle Porras (Cordoba); Nicolas Vernot (Universite de Cergy-Pontoise)
Steven Thiry, PhD, is a voluntary member of 'Power in History: Centre for Political History' of the University of Antwerp. Luc Duerloo is professor at the Department of History of the University of Antwerp, where he teaches early modern political and institutional history.
Introduction: Identity, Status and State Intervention in Early Modern Heraldry
Steven Thiry and Luc Duerloo
PART 1 — HERALDRY AND NOBLE IDENTITY
‘Degrees of Nobles’:
The Aristocratisation of Europe’s Second Estate, c.1300-1700
Hamish Scott
The ‘Pennon’:
Heraldic Witness to Aristocratic Identities in Early Modern France
Clément Savary
Heraldry as a Nobiliary Sign:
What Treatises of Nobility Bring to a Historiographical Debate
Camille Pollet
Political Disruptions and Mamluk Emblematic Evolutions in the Fifteenth Century
Simon Rousselot
PART 2 — HERALDRY AND THE POLITICS OF STATUS
To Stand Out by Blazon:
Heraldry, Hierarchy and Social Competition during the Early Modern Period
Nicolas Vernot
‘Que en esa forma me lo haga vuestra merced’:
The Clients of the King of Arms Diego de Urbina and the Heraldic Forgeries in his Certifications of Arms (1584-1623)
José Manuel Valle Porras
L’autorité des hérauts d’armes en question à Lille au début du XVIIe siècle : La Remonstrance burlesque au Roy d’armes pour la noblesse lilloise et son contexte
Dominique Delgrange
PART 3 — HERALDRY AND STATE INTERVENTION
The Forge of Honour:
Interpreting Early Modern Policies on Heraldry
Steven Thiry
Emblematic Iconoclasm:
The Case of Charles of Bourbon in 1527
Antoine Robin
Lord Burghley and Displays of Collective Heraldry in Elizabethan England
Richard Cust
American Independence and the Privatisation of Heraldry, 1775-1800
Joseph McMillan
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.06.2021 |
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| Verlagsort | Leuven |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 415 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Heraldik |
| ISBN-10 | 94-6270-243-8 / 9462702438 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-94-6270-243-1 / 9789462702431 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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