Author : J. E. Cirlot
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 29,4 MB
Release : 2013-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0486132668
A valuable reference, this informative and entertaining volume presents a key to elucidating the symbolic worlds encountered in both the arts and the history of ideas. 32 black-and-white illustrations.
Author : Barry Jason Stein
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 18,46 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 : Michael J. O'Shea
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780887062698
James Joyce and Heraldry demonstrates that heraldry is an essential key to the symbols of Joyce's major works. It is a clear, witty introduction to heraldry and the use of heraldic imagery by Western writers, including Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Sterne. Michael O'Shea shifts the focus from the aural imagery of Joyce to reveal the visual impact deriving from Joyce's use of the symbols and language of heraldry. He cites biographical and textual evidence of Joyce's deep interest in coats of arms, crests, and other heraldic emblems; and demonstrates that Joyce used these visual symbols as well as "the curious jargons of heraldry" in his writings. O'Shea succeeds in compiling an indispensable reference work that sheds new light on Joyce's major texts, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. His commentary is thoroughly illustrated and includes a glossary of heraldic terms keyed to Joyce's usage of them.
Author : Adrian W. B. Randolph
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300092127
Randolph shows how "engaging" political symbols were grounded in a revolutionary way in amorous discourses that drew on metaphors of affection, desire, courtship, betrothal, marriage, homo- and hetero-eroticism, and procreation."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Stephen Slater
Publisher : Lorenz Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Heraldry
ISBN : 9780754834601
Comprehensively covers every aspect of the history, language and use of heraldry.
Author : A.C. Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1134934823
'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains Edmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for: * appreciating Spenser's poetry in the context of his age and our own * understanding the language, themes and characters of the poems * easy to find entries arranged by subject.
Author : William Newton
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 1846
Category : Heraldry
ISBN :
Author : J. C. Cirlot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 12,69 MB
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134958900
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 : 48,17 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 : Peter R. Coss
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 17,48 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.
