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Heraldica Nova

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Announcements of and information on conferences, workshops and other scholarly events relating to medieval and early modern heraldry.

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Calls & Announcements / Current Projects / English / Events / Hiltmann, Torsten; Hablot Laurent: HERALDIC Identity in Context

Lecture: Heraldic Research Reworked – Perspectives from Digital and Gender History

The Royal Heraldry Society of Canada invites you to an online lecture by Vivien Baumert and Noah Kim-Baumann on Sunday, July 19, 1:30pm EST (7:30pm CET). Abstract: With an estimated one million objects preserved, coats of arms were among the most ubiquitous visual phenomena of medieval and early modern Europe — yet their systematic analysis has remained a persistent methodological challenge. The project HERALDIC Identity in Context addresses this...

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Calls & Announcements / English / Publications / Workshop: Heraldry in the Medieval City (Rome 2015)

Publication: Heraldry in Medieval and Renaissance Cities (Heraldic Studies 6)

We are pleased to officially announce the publication of the sixth volume of the series Heraldic Studies. Under the title “Heraldry in Medieval and Rennaissance Cities”, Torsten Hiltmann, Laurent Hablot and Matteo Ferrari present an interdisciplinary collection that examines the semiotic function of heraldic displays as an urban phenomenon in Medieval Europe, with particular regard to Italy, where heraldry appears as a prevalent form of visual communication. Heraldic Studies...

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Calls & Announcements / Events / Français

Colloque International: Héraldique & Papauté

Le 17 et 18 juin 2026, le Centre Sant-Louis à Rome accueille le colloque international Héraldique & Papauté. Voici l’annonce de l’Université Le Havre Normandie: Le premier colloque Héraldique & Papauté s’est tenu à l’École française de Rome en mai 2016. Les actes de cette rencontre ont été publiés en 2020 aux Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre (PURH). Un deuxième colloque, portant le même titre, s’est déroulé au Centre...

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Tagung: Wappen als Waffe – Heraldische Symbole in politischen, dynastischen, militärischen und rechtlichen Konflikten des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit (13.-15.06.2024, Greifswald)

Internationale Fachtagung des Lehrstuhls für Allgemeine Geschichte des Mittelalters der Universität Greifswald unter der wissenschaftlichen Leitung von Dr. Ralf-Gunnar Werlich (Greifswald) Die Tagung beschäftigt sich mit Wappen als ein im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit weitverbreitetes europaspezifisches Phänomen der visuellen Kommunikation und ihrer Rolle in politischen, dynastischen, militärischen und rechtlichen Konflikten. Mit dieser Schwerpunktsetzung betritt sie Neuland. Dies umso mehr als an konkreten Fallbeispielen orientiert erstmals derartige Konflikte...

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Book presentation on 20th October 2023, 5pm: Heraldry in Contact (Heraldic Studies 5) – hybrid

We are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of the 5th volume of the Heraldic Studies series edited by Urte Krass and Miguel Metelo de Seixas, titled “Heraldry in Contact: Perspectives and Challenges of a Connective Image Form”. The volume will be presented by Laurent Hablot on 20 October 2023 at 5pm (Spanish time) at the International Congress of Genealogy and Heraldry, which takes place in Ronda (Spain) from...

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Invitation: Inscribing heraldry on UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list? – Next meeting of the Société française d’héraldique et de sigillographie (19 October 23, 5pm, hybrid)

At the next meeting of the Société française d’héraldique et de sigillographie on Thursday, 19 October, starting at 5pm, Nicolas Vernot will be presenting the project to recognise the practice of heraldry as intangible cultural heritage in France and at UNESCO. Everyone who would like to learn more about this initiative or would like to get involved is cordially invited to this event, which can be attended in person...

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Articles / English / Event Reports

[Report] Seals and Linked Open Data, December 2nd to 8th 2020

From 2 to 8 December, the symposium Seals and Linked Open Data was held as part of the online Linked Pasts 6 conference. The symposium was organised by John McEwan, Associate Director of the Center for Digital Humanities at Saint Louis University. Three webinar panels during the event brought together several experts on sigillography from research institutions, museums and archives who presented various projects, databases and ontologies on sigillographic...

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Articles / Calls & Announcements / English / Events / Hiltmann, Torsten: The Performance of Coats of Arms / Projects

[Paper] Detection, Description, Analysis – Towards an Integrated Approach to Heraldic Representations on Seals using Machine Learning and Semantic Web Technologies (Linked Pasts 6 Conference, 2 December 2020)

From 2 December to 16 December 2020, the sixth edition of the conference Linked Pasts, organised by the Institute of Classical Studies in London, will be held online. Linked Pasts is an annual conference on the use of Linked Open Data for the study of history. This year, one of the panels of the conference, organised by the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of Saint Louis, will...

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Articles / Event Reports

[Report] Report de mes trois dernières conférences à Paris (mars/avril 2020)

Comme vous vous en doutez certainement déjà, les conférences à Paris, qui n’ont pas encore eu lieu, doivent malheureusement être reportées à cause de la crise actuelle. Il s’agit des conférences de 25 et 26 mars ainsi que de 7 avril. S’il y a de nouvelles dates, je les annoncerai ici. En attendant, veuillez rester en bonne santé et faire attention à vous.

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[Report:] Visible Identities: Symbolic Codes from Personal Heraldry to Corporate Logos, London, 6 November 2017

It is a convenient coincidence that an event of this thematic scope took place in London, a city that is home to the College of Arms as the oldest authority of heraldry as a century-old tradition of visual identification on the one, and the headquarters of countless companies concerned with identity of modern global brands on the other side. With these two dimensions in mind, this symposium brought together...

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Calls & Announcements / Deutsch / English / Français / Hiltmann, Torsten: The History of Heraldic Communication / Projects / Publications / Workshop: Heraldic Artists and Painters in the Middle Ages (Poitiers 2014)

‘Heraldic Artists and Painters’ volume is now forthcoming!

I am pleased to announce that the first volume of our new ‘Heraldic Studies’ series has now been sent off to the printers and will be published just in time for Christmas! Under the title ‘Heraldic Artists and Painters in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times’, Laurent Hablot and I present a collection of fourteen English and French papers bringing together contributions from our Poitiers conference in 2014...

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Articles / De Seixas, Miguel Metelo; Hiltmann, Torsten: Heraldry in royal political communication in Late Medieval Portugal / English / Event Reports / Projects / Workshop: Heraldry in Medieval and Early Modern State-Rooms (Münster 2016)

[Report:] Heraldry in Medieval and Early Modern State-Rooms, Münster 16-18 March

On 16-18 March 2016 the workshop Heraldry in Medieval and Early Modern State-Rooms took place in Münster. The origins of this workshop lay in the challenges of understanding the function of the heraldic display in one particular state-room: the sala dos brasões of the National Palace in Sintra, Portugal, dating from the early sixteenth century. The ceiling of this hall presents the coats of arms of the Portuguese royal...