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Français / munster2016 / Workshop: Heraldry in Medieval and Early Modern State-Rooms (Münster 2016)

[Paper:] Les programmes héraldiques des demeures patriciennes et seigneuriales du sud de la France à la fin du Moyen Âge (Laura Ceccantini, Delphine Grenet)

L’identification des fonctions originelles des espaces au sein de l’habitat civil médiéval est une des principales difficultés de leur étude, question pour laquelle l’héraldique joue un rôle privilégié. Les programmes héraldiques conservés dans les demeures méridionales françaises se caractérisent par leur emplacement sur les plafonds à poutres apparentes, contrairement aux armoriaux représentés habituellement sur les surfaces murales. Ces charpentes constituent un support privilégié dès la fin du XIIIe siècle...

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Articles / English

Historiography, Heraldry and Noble Identity: Armorial Münster and the Urban Environment of a Noble Patron

On 20-21 May 2015, four young scholars from the Belgian universities of Antwerp, Ghent and Leuven had organized a conference entitled ‘Towards New Thinking In Urban Historiography: Old Texts, New Approaches. A Reconsideration of Urban Historical Consciousness in Northwest Europe’. The conference took place in the formidable location of the Groeninge Museum in Bruges, with no less than two keynote lectures, sixteen case studies, and four round table discussions....

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Articles / English / Reviews

Thorsten Hutwelker, Die Darstellung des Rangs in Wappen und Wappenrollen des späten Mittelalters

Can one determine the rank of a person through his coats of arms? Can armorials be used to examine social hierarchy? These are the exciting questions posed by Thorsten Huthwelker in his book Die Darstellung des Rangs in Wappen und Wappenrollen des späten Mittelalters. He has chosen an interesting as well as a difficult object of study and this review will discuss whether Huthwelker managed to tackle the many...

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Calls & Announcements / Deutsch / English / Events / Konrad Grünenbergs Wappenbuch (Christof Rolker)

Christof Rolker (Konstanz): Die Ordnung der Wappen. Zum sozialen Ort spätmittelalterlicher Wappenbücher, Historisches Seminar, Münster, 04.06.2014

Am 4. Juni 2014 trug Christof Rolker im Forschungskolloquium “400-1500” am Historischen Seminar der Universität Münster aus seinen aktuellen Arbeiten zu spätmittelalterlichen Wappenbüchern vor. In Zentrum stand dabei natürlich das Wappenbuch des Konrad Grünenberg, zu dem er hier auf dem Blog regelmäßig berichtet. Hier das Abstract zu seinem Vortrag: Spätmittelalterliche Wappenbücher, die teilweise über 1000 Wappen umfassen, werden oft als Ausdruck eines spezifisch (land-)adeligen Selbstbewusstseins verstanden. Soweit die Auftraggeber...

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Laurent Hablot (Poitiers): Two new brothers “de Bourbon”. Why did the duke of Bourbon in 1334 grant two unknown brothers nobility, his arms and his name?

The national archives of Paris kept a grant of arms gave to two brothers by the duke of Bourbon in 1344. By this, they are made noble and allowed to take the coat of arms of the old lordship of Bourbon and to use the name of Bourbon too. Why do they received such honor ? Are they some of his very close friends ? Are they his bastards, legitimate by...