Author : Stephen Slater
Publisher : Lorenz Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 30,87 MB
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Heraldry
ISBN : 9780754834601
Comprehensively covers every aspect of the history, language and use of heraldry.
Author : Stephen Slater
Publisher : Southwater Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Crests
ISBN : 9781846819605
This informative book looks not only at the medieval world in which heraldry thrived, but also at its language, the elaborate system of coded messages it conveyed, and its inextricable link with chivalry. Featuring more than 700 illustrations, it also covers both the larger aspects of heraldry and everyday heraldic uses, and contains a comprehensive glossary. The international uses of heraldry and the way different countries have interpreted it are also included. Most of Europe and the Americas are covered as well as Scandinavia, Africa and Japan. Novices and experts alike will benefit from the breadth of the content of this masterly history
Author : Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,39 MB
Release : 2012-10-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 0486155552
Royalty-free treasury of 393 full-color, 654 black-and-white illustrations. Authentic heraldic arms, lions, eagles, dragons, shields, crests, windows, etc. Also, arms of cities and towns, arms of Edward the Black Prince, Milton, Maximilian I, others. Add aristocratic flair, noble bearing to almost any graphic project. Publisher's Note. Captions.
Author : Rosemary A. Chorzempa
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 048624993X
Design your own personal coat of arms. Detailed, easy-to-follow instructions make it easy even for beginners to fashion emblems that reflect family origins, traits, and accomplishments. Decorate plates, mugs, and stationary or create wallhangings, sew-on patches, T-shirt decals, pin-on badges, and much more.
Author : Michel Pastoureau
Publisher : New Horizons S.
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Devices (Heraldry)
ISBN : 9780500300749
Heraldry is a living survival of the great medieval world of European chivalry. First introduced as a means of identification in battle and in tournaments, it gradually spread to society as a whole. Today the knights-in-armour and many of the families who bore these coats of arms have disappeared, but the heraldic tradition survives in the royal arms, flags, emblems, road signs, sports badges and corporate logos of the modern world.
Author : Stephen Slater
Publisher : Lorenz Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,8 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Flags
ISBN : 9780754817802
A sensuous, heartbreaking novel about art, beauty and the choices we make that define us for life, from the author of the Giller Prize finalist Summer Gone A young man travels to Paris in 1968, where a series of unlikely events take him to a tiny village in Italyâe"and the one great love of his life. A marble merchant meets a couple on their honeymoon, introducing them to the sensual beauty of Carrara. An Italian woman arrives in Canada to find the father she never knew. A terrible accident in a marble quarry changes the course of a young boyâe(tm)s life and, ultimately, sets in motion each of these stories, which Macfarlane masterfully shapes into a magnificent whole. Oliver Hughson falls in love with wild, bohemian Anna over the course of one glorious summer in Italy. Bound by a sense of responsibility to his adoptive parents back home in Canada, however, he leaves her, an act he will regret for the rest of his life. Narrated by the daughter he never knew he had, The Figures of Beauty is a love story of mythic proportions. Through luck, fate and great good fortune, Oliver found the one place and the one woman he should never have left. This is the story of him trying to find his way back.
Author : Barry Jason Stein
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 43,48 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 : Thomas Woodcock
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,2 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192802262
Written by Officers of Arms with full access to the College of Arms Library, this guide to heraldry covers the origins of heraldry, the composition of arms and their visual appearance, and the use of arms as decorations
Author : Terence Wise
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 17,66 MB
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1780966261
Coats of arms were at first used only by kings and princes, then by their great nobles, but by the mid-13th century arms were being used extensively by the lesser nobility, knights and those who later came to be styled gentlemen. In some countries the use of arms spread even to merchants, townspeople and the peasantry. From the mundane to the fantastic, from simple geometric patterns to elaborate mythological beasts, this fascinating work by Terence Wise explores the origins and appearance of medieval heraldic devices in an engagingly readable style accompanied by numerous illustrations including eight full page colour plates by Richard Hook.
Author : Peter R. Coss
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 24,63 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.
