
Heraldic Hierarchies
Identity, Status and State Intervention in Early Modern Heraldry
Edited by Steven Thiry and Luc Duerloo
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social use and changing character of armorial display in the early modern
period
Early modern heraldry
was far from a nostalgic remnant from a feudal past. From the Reformation to
the French Revolution, aspiring men seized on these signs to position
themselves in a changing society, imbuing heraldic tradition with fresh
meaning. Whereas post-medieval developments are all too often described in
terms of decadence and stifling formality, recent studies rightly stress the
dynamic capacity of bearing arms.
Heraldic
Hierarchies aims to correct
former misconceptions. Contributing authors rethink the influence of shifting
notions of nobility on armorial display and expand this topic to heraldry’s
share in shaping and contesting status. Moreover, addressing a common thread, the
volume explores how emerging states turned the heraldic experience into an
instrument of power and policy. Contributing to debates on social and noble
identity, Heraldic Hierarchies
uncovers a vital and surprising aspect of the pre-modern hierarchical world.
Contributors: Richard Cust (University of Birmingham), Dominique Delgrange (Lille), Luc Duerloo (University of Antwerp), Joseph McMillan (Alexandria VA), Camille Pollet (Université de Nantes), Antoine Robin (École Pratique des Hautes Études), Simon Rousselot (École Pratique des Hautes Études), Clément Savary (École Pratique des Hautes Études), Hamish Scott (Jesus College, Oxford), Steven Thiry (University of Antwerp), José Manuel Valle Porras (Universidad de Córdoba), Nicolas Vernot (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
Introduction: Identity, Status and State Intervention in Early Modern Heraldry
Steven Thiry and Luc Duerloo
PART 1 — HERALDRY AND NOBLE IDENTITY
‘Degrees of Nobles’:
The Aristocratisation of Europe’s Second Estate, c.1300-1700
Hamish Scott
The ‘Pennon’:
Heraldic Witness to Aristocratic Identities in Early Modern France
Clément Savary
Heraldry as a Nobiliary Sign:
What Treatises of Nobility Bring to a Historiographical Debate
Camille Pollet
Political Disruptions and Mamluk Emblematic Evolutions in the Fifteenth Century
Simon Rousselot
PART 2 — HERALDRY AND THE POLITICS OF STATUS
To Stand Out by Blazon:
Heraldry, Hierarchy and Social Competition during the Early Modern Period
Nicolas Vernot
‘Que en esa forma me lo haga vuestra merced’:
The Clients of the King of Arms Diego de Urbina and the Heraldic Forgeries in his Certifications of Arms (1584-1623)
José Manuel Valle Porras
L’autorité des hérauts d’armes en question à Lille au début du XVIIe siècle : La Remonstrance burlesque au Roy d’armes pour la noblesse lilloise et son contexte
Dominique Delgrange
PART 3 — HERALDRY AND STATE INTERVENTION
The Forge of Honour:
Interpreting Early Modern Policies on Heraldry
Steven Thiry
Emblematic Iconoclasm:
The Case of Charles of Bourbon in 1527
Antoine Robin
Lord Burghley and Displays of Collective Heraldry in Elizabethan England
Richard Cust
American Independence and the Privatisation of Heraldry, 1775-1800
Joseph McMillan
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Format: Edited volume - paperback
Size: 234 × 156 × 15 mm
274 pages
B&W illustrations and colour illustrations
ISBN: 9789462702431
Publication: June 01, 2021
Languages: English
Stock item number: 142197
Steven Thiry, PhD, is a voluntary member of ‘Power in History: Centre for Political History’ of the University of Antwerp.
Nigel Ramsay, Virtus 28 | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.21827/virtus.28.148-151