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Tagged: coats of arms

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The Getty Murúa III – A Postcolonial Perspective

This is the third and final installation of a blog series taking a closer look at the fictional coats of arms in the Getty Murúa. The first post explored the cultural and historic environment of the manuscript’s author, Martín de Murúa whereas the second blog entry examined the depicted coats of arms and attempted to place them in a broader sociocultural context of the Americas. This final essay scrutinizes...

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The Getty Murúa II – The Depicted Coats of Arms

This is the second of a three part blog post series dealing with the fictional coats of arms in the Getty Murúa. In the previous part, the manuscript itself, its author and his environment were examined. This installation takes a look at the depiction of coats of arms in the Getty Murúa and attempts to situate them within a broader sociocultural context of the Americas. The third and final part...

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Fictional Shields and Real Harm – The Getty Murúa I

During the summer of last year, Torsten Hiltmann had the opportunity to undertake a research stay at the Getty Library. As part of this visit, he was also able to learn more about a particular manuscript—the Getty Murúa—and to examine the original at the Getty Museum, which is the focus of the following blog post. This manuscript was met with a lot of curiosity and gave rise to even...

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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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Exhibition: Knights of the Golden Fleece: a Brilliant Myth Unravelled (24.02.-2.06.24; Mechelen, Belgium)

We would like to bring the following upcoming exhibition to your attention: From February 24th to June 2nd, 2024, Museum Hof van Busleyden (Mechelen, Belgium) will host the exhibition “Knights of the Golden Fleece: a Brilliant Myth Unravelled”. About: The exhibition delves into the historical significance of the Order of the Golden Fleece, showcasing the grandeur and intrigue surrounding one of Europe’s earliest political alliances. Set against the backdrop...

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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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Ein digitales Wappenbuch habsburgischer Gnadenakte

Seit 1967 bilden fünf Bände zu den Standeserhebungen und den Gnadenakten der Habsburger von Karl Friedrich von Frank eine verlässliche Übersicht der im ehemaligen „Adelsarchiv“1 verwahrten, alphabetisch geordneten Akten der Reichskanzlei und Hofkanzlei (bzw. ab 1848 des Ministerium des Inneren) bis zur ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Peter Frank-Döfering ergänzte diese mit seinem Adelslexikon zum österreichischen Kaisertum 1989.2 Beide Übersichten umfassen Gnadenakte, insbesondere Standeserhebungen, der Habsburger als Kaiser sowie...

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Early Heraldry in the Late Romanesque Wall Paintings of the Church of Artins (France)

Forgotten in the depot of the ‘Kunstsammlungen’ in Coburg Castle for decades, a ‘medieval tapestry’ was rediscovered in 2014. Soon after, it was determined, that the ‘tapestry’ was not in fact a tapestry, but a medieval wall painting that had been removed using the so called ‘strappo’-method.[1] Besides the monumental battle scene, three smaller painted fragments – showing early modern coats of arms – were also found in Coburg...

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Heraldic Language in French Narrative of 12th-13th centuries

  In memory of Gerard J. Brault, 1929-2020   Being an MA in linguistics I was invited in 2013 by the group of Heraldry and Genealogy Project of the Institute of World History, Moscow, to conduct research on blazon as a professional language of heraldry. The idea was to add a new – linguistic – perspective to a primarily historical topic. When I started my inquiries in the world...

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SUBPROJECT ON ARMORIALS IN MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS REACHES ITS CONCLUSION

This week, Elmar Hofman handed in his dissertation on armorials in Dutch, German and French manuscripts from the thirteenth to the early sixteenth centuries, a subproject of the “Performanz der Wappen” research project. In this dissertation, Hofman pursues the question as to how armorials in medieval manuscripts can be studied as means of communication and historical sources. He presents a diversified approach, taking into account various aspects of a...

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A world (map) of coat of arms: Richental’s mappamundi

The Aulendorf copy of Richental’s chronicle, today preserved in New York, is rightly famous as an important textual witness not only of the chronicle but also the armorial transmitted with the latter (see https://heraldica.hypotheses.org/2854 on the manuscript and the coats of arms it contains). Today, I would like to draw attention to a slightly hidden feature of the Aulendorf manuscript, namely the mappamundi it contains – a so-called ‘T-O...

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Heraldry in early-modern Spain according to the picaresque novel (1554–1668)

I have recently published an article in which I analyze the heraldic information contained in a total of twenty-seven Spanish picaresque novels from the years 1554 to 1668. Faced with the fantastic novel of chivalry, the realistic setting of the picaresque allows a better approach to the daily heraldic practices in Spain during the Early Modern Age, as well as to the perception of the coat of arms. A...