• Palæography (history and study of old scripts) | Heraldry (study of Coats of Arms & Blazons) • Research Papers (original) (raw)

It is astonishing that a sheaf of loose paper sheets should keep their order through five and a half centuries, even if they have spent some of that time within the protective binding of a British Library manuscript. The leaves in question are fos. 94r-106r at the end of Add Ms 11542, an odd collection of pieces relating to the English occupation of Normandy and the House of Orleans. The various pieces are written on different types of paper and in several hands. The last thirteen leaves each contain sixteen shields, painted four by four on coarse paper with name legends in a fifteenth-century hand. The individual sheets, approximately 210 by 290 mm, are smaller than the folio volume, and are bound in five sections alternately offset. That this small and largely unknown armorial must have preserved its original order nearly intact is relatively easy to verify. The middle three sections list participants at the Peace of Arras in 1435 (hence Armorial of the Peace of Arras, or APA), naming the Burgundians first, then-the mediators, and finally the French. This congress and those who attended it are discussed in detail by Joycelyne Dickinson, 1 and the content and sequence of the list in Add Ms 11542, correspond well with that of a later manuscript. We will leave the continentals at that and turn our attention to the English of the first and last sections – men who cannot in fact have been at Arras at that time. We shall retain the misleading designation APA-en for these sections, which contain 64 and 104 entries respectively.

- by Basil Chulev
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- Philology, Languages, History, Ancient History

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Almost 60 years ago Anthony Wagner, the late Garter King of Arms, tentatively concluded that 'heraldry was coming into use and taking formal shape for a generation or more before our first clear evidence for it.' 1 Other armorists have hinted at the same opinion, but few have tried to substantiate it. Even Wagner himself did not really put forward arguments, other than to list a handful of early armorial seals from all over Europe dated to the period from 1136 to 1159. There are least two, interconnected reasons for this reticence. The first is the obvious shortage of data, which almost without exception come from seals. Very few seals have survived from the twelfth century , and only three families provide seals for more than one individual (Candavène-Saint-Pol, Clare, and Savoy). The second reason derives from the unwillingness of most scholars to speculate without having documentary evidence on which to build their hypotheses and arguments. If we accept Wagner's conclusion though we might more appropriately call it a hypothesis—there are several families that we might expect to have adopted armo-rial emblems around or shortly after 1100, i.e. at the conclusion of the First Crusade (without proposing any relation between the two). But to what extent, in which order, and at which social level did this happen? The problem facing us in substantiating the hypothesis can be reformulated in more general terms: is it possible to date an adoption of arms to before it is documented? Speculation has been engaged in for more than a hundred years. J. Horace Round more or less explicitly dated the adoption of the quarterly arms of Mandeville before 1144, but as discussed below, though this dating has often been cited, it was based purely on a rough extrapolation from seal data fifty to a hundred years later. 2 If it can be shown that different branches of a family bearing nearly identical arms were distinct and separate at a certain date, this would provide a better basis for extrapola-tion; but they would have to be effectively, physically separated, not just moved into the next valley or a few shires away. The primary aim of this paper is to investigate whether there is evidence to substantiate the adoption of arms before the date of any surviving documentation. Three sets of data were chosen to explore the possibilities.

- by Steen Clemmensen
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- Ancient Seals and Sealings, Seals, Armorials, Medieval Heraldry

This paper analyses two late sixteenth-century armorials with the coats of arms of the 235 participants of a tournament organized in May 1439 on the central market square, the Grote Markt, of Brussels. The armorials, trustworthy copies of a now lost original, record the performance of an exclusive social category in public space, and express in a distinctive visual way the internal hierarchy of the tourneying society: team leaders, leaders of large companies, leaders of of small companies, and 'ordinary' participants. The heraldic elements that were essential to this hierarchic arrangement - banners, pennons, shields – were actually used during the tournament, as well as the depicted helmets and crests.
It goes without saying that these occasional rolls were important for the nobility of the Low Countries, both at the time of the tournament and at the time of their creation in the last decades of the sixteenth century. Inclusion of their coats of arms in the armorials ensured the participants of a place in the collective memory. The compilers of the armorials played an essential role in defining the nobility as a social category since participating in a tournament meant that you lived nobly and that your peers considered you as a nobleman. The two copies of the original armorial in the last decades of the sixteenth century reproduced the social classification within the nobility in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. It shows that the same mechanisms of social distinction still played a role at that time.

- by Mario Damen
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- Medieval History, Manuscript Studies, Heraldry, Paleography

This book examines the oscillating identities of the colonial descendants of Inca kings in
the eighteenth-century borders of the Spanish empire, by means of discursive analysis of the petitions of nobility by the Uchu Túpac Yupanqui family of Lambayeque, Perú. The unpublished manuscript of such record, classified as Mexico 2346 in Seville’s Archivo General de Indias, depicts the twelve-year legal and social journey of doña María Joaquina Uchu Inca in viceregal Mexico. The study of written and visual iconic texts reveals the history of the Uchu Yupanqui family from 1544 to 1801.

Questo file è un ESTRATTO (e dunque è una selezione ridotta) della presentazione usata da Fabio Manuel Serra il 13 febbraio 2018 per la prima lezione di Araldica nobiliare presso la prestigiosa Scuola di Archivistica, Paleografia e Diplomatica dell'Archivio di Stato di Cagliari. La Scuola, con questo corso, ha offerto agli studenti contenuti affini alle tre discipline fondamentali insegnate, consentendo una visione d'insieme delle principali problematiche della scienza araldica e della blasonologia.

- by Fabio Manuel Serra
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- Heraldry, Blason, Blazon, Medieval Heraldry
- by Marta Gomes dos Santos
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- Heraldry, Sigillography, Municipal Heraldry, Medieval Portuguese Heraldry
- by Mark Beumer
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- History, Ancient History, Archaeology, Historical Archaeology

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Ст.н.с. Петър Детев пръв в българската археология систематизира и подреди основните типове „идеографични и имагитивни знаци” (негово определение от 1954 г.), появяващи се по някои съдове и предмети в праисторията ни. Педантично ги публикува в няколко табла според хронологията им – неолитни, енеолитни, от бронзова и желязна епохи. Това би следвало да улесни последващите изследвания с много ценната информация за еволюцията на знаковото писмо, а сега и за подреждането на знаците в семантична система, отразяваща мирогледа на палеобалканците.
Въз основа на тези проверени и извлечени от многобройните му разкопки данни, успях да проследя произхода, представите, които са символизирали и значението на 22 знакови редици от повтаряеми идеографични знаци. Най-старите...

- by Jordan Detev
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- Intellectual History, Cultural Studies, Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology