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Published: 9th January 1998
ISBN: 9780851157115
Number Of Pages: 321
Early Blazon traces the evolution of heraldic terminology from its beginnings — the second quarter of the 12th century to about the year 1300. It analyses the use of coats of arms in literary texts of the period and elucidates such phenomena as allusive, canting and symbolic arms, studying the semantic evolution of the terms and phrases which have survived in today's blazon, and establishing that coats were consistently attributed to certain Arthurian characters from the early 13th century onwards. The glossary defines and gives complete references for every word and phrase utilised in heraldy down to 1300; each term, with its synonyms and its phraseology, is analysed historically and philologically. The introduction covers related topics like heraldic art and pre-classic blazon, the emergence of classic blazon, literature and heraldry, heraldic flattery, plain arms, and history and heraldry. Reissued to coincide with the publication of Professor Brault's edition of The Rolls of Arms of Edward I (1272-1307), this new edition of Early Blazonincludes in a new appendix additions and corrections reflecting more than a quarter of a century of advances in the study of heraldic terminology. GERARD J. BRAULTis Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of French and Medieval Studies at the Pennsylvania State University.
| List of Plates | |
| List of Abbreviations | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Scope of the Present Work | p. 1 |
| The Study of Early Blazon | p. 3 |
| Heraldic Art and Pre-Classic Blazon | p. 5 |
| The Formulation of Classic Blazon | p. 5 |
| Further Characteristics of Classic Blazon | p. 15 |
| Literature and Heraldry | p. 18 |
| Heraldic Flattery | p. 19 |
| Canting and Symbolic Arms | p. 23 |
| Allusive Arms | p. 26 |
| Plain Arms | p. 29 |
| Black Knights, Green Knights, Red Knights, etc. | p. 31 |
| The Arms of Brittany | p. 35 |
| Arthurian Heraldry | p. 37 |
| History, Heraldry, and Literature | p. 52 |
| Arrangement of Items in the Present Glossary | p. 55 |
| Orthographical and Grammatical Considerations | p. 56 |
| Table I. Chief Terms Listed In the Present Glossary | p. 59 |
| Table II. Additional French and English Terms Provided In the Notes | p. 99 |
| Glossary of heraldic terms and phrases in the thirteenth-century French and Anglo-Norman rolls of arms together with a list of such expressions found in a representative number of twelfth- and thirteenth-century French literary texts | p. 104 |
| Table III. Coats of Arms Identified By Name | p. 289 |
| Appendix to the 1997 Edition | p. 299 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780851157115
ISBN-10: 0851157114
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 321
Published: 9th January 1998
Publisher: BOYDELL & BREWER INC
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 24.13 x 15.88
x 1.91
Weight (kg): 0.73
Edition Number: 2
Edition Type: New edition
