Book Description
A comprehensive guide to the authorized unit insignia from the American Revolution through the Persian Gulf War.
Author : Barry Jason Stein
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780872499638
A comprehensive guide to the authorized unit insignia from the American Revolution through the Persian Gulf War.
Author : Albert Charles Hamilton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 21,1 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780802079237
A reference book for scholarship on Edmund Spenser offering a detailed, literary guide to his life, works and influence. Over 700 entries by 422 contributors, an index and extensive bibliography.
Author : Stephen Slater
Publisher : Lorenz Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Heraldry
ISBN : 9780754834601
Comprehensively covers every aspect of the history, language and use of heraldry.
Author : William Newton
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 25,97 MB
Release : 1846
Category : Heraldry
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Author : Peter R. Coss
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,37 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781843830368
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.
Author : J. C. Cirlot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 11,24 MB
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134958897
The unvarying essential meanings of around 1,000 symbols and symbolic themes commonly found in the art, literature and thought of all cultures through the ages are clarified.
Author : Steven Thiry
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9462702438
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.
Author : William-Smith Ellis
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 1869
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Author : J. E. Cirlot
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1504085655
This classic encyclopedia of symbols by the renowned Spanish poet illuminates the imagery of myth, modern psychology, literature, and art. J. E. Cirlot’s A Dictionary of Symbols is a feat of scholarship, an act of the imagination, and a tool for contemplation, as well as a work of literature—a reference book that is as indispensable as it is brilliant and learned. Cirlot was a composer, poet, critic, and champion of modern art whose interest in surrealism helped introduce him to the study of symbolism. This volume explores the space between the world at large and the world within, where nothing is meaningless, and everything is in some way related to something else. Running from “abandonment” to “zone” by way of “flute” and “whip,” spanning the cultures of the world, and including a wealth of visual images to further bring the reality of the symbol home, A Dictionary of Symbols is a luminous and illuminating investigation of the works of eternity in time.
Author : Robert Tyas (Vicar of East Tilbury, Essex.)
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 23,11 MB
Release : 1851
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