The biggest problem in dealing with heralds as well as with heraldry is the fact that both subjects are much too often seen as one. As a matter of fact, the relationship between heralds and heraldry is a tricky one and the link between both, as far as I see, has been largely...
Participants to the Workshop I (26-28 march 2014) presenting papers at the workshop Anne-Sophie Bessero (Paris) Jean-Christoph Blanchard (Nancy) Anna-Maria Blank (Berlin) Nils Bock (Münster) Clive Cheesman (London) Steen Clemmensen (Farum) Pierre Couhault (Paris) Sonja Dünnebeil (Vienna) Michael Göbl (Vienna) Alexandre Grosjean (Dunkirk) Torsten Hiltmann (Münster) Bernd Klesmann (Cologne) Otfried Krafft (Marburg) Miguel...
The late middle ages furnished heraldry and the heralds with more than one imaginative narrative recounting institutional descent from Antiquity. Narratives like this were rendered less creditable or at any rate less attractive in the early modern era by the new
Clive Cheesman is Richmond Herald and Earl Marshal’s Secretary at the College of Arms in London, and a barrister at law. He holds a degree in classics (Literae Humaniores) from the University of Oxford and received his PhD at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici
Alors que les études sur l’office d’armes se sont surtout concentrées sur le moyen-âge, nous nous proposons de présenter les importantes mutations qu’a connues ce métier au cours du XVIe siècle, notamment dans les Flandres et en Espagne. Le croisement des sources comptables, des règlements et des mémoires des hérauts sur leur office...
La première mention d’un héraut d’armes apparaît dans nos sources à la fin du XIIe siècle, dans Le Chevalier de la Charrette de Chrétien de Troyes. Il est ce personnage courant pieds nus à travers le camp de Noauz pour annoncer la venue de Lancelot dont personne
Among the possessions of a danish herald, who fled the country in 1523 was “a book with arms, such as heralds used to have”. Does this imply that all heralds possesed armorials, or that they habitually entered the coats of arms that they encountered into armorials or armorial notebooks? Hardly – most of...
Roger Machado is best known as Richmond King of Arms for Henry VII of England from 1485 to 1510. He is a very enigmatic figure as the extant evidence for his life (as with most individuals living at this time) is fragmentary at best and he appears to have lived a very nomadic...
Le héraut médiéval occidental doit son apparition au besoin de connaissances particulières liées à l’héraldique. Des abords des champs de batailles et des tournois aux salles bardées des cours, le glissement de son office depuis un communicant oral vers un statut d’écrivain
(english version ; version française) Zusammenfassung Ziel des Workshops ist es, allen am Heroldsamt und dessen Geschichte Interessierten die Gelegenheit zu bieten, das gemeinsame Thema unter einem systematischen Zugang zu diskutieren und damit ein Forschungsfeld genauer zu umreißen, dessen möglicher Beitrag zu einem besseren Verständnis der europäischen Geschichte des 12.-18. Jahrhunderts im
(version française ; deutsche Fassung) The history of heralds is a largely underexplored one. In spite of the important role the office of heralds played in the late medieval courtly culture and beyond, only few scholars have dedicated their attention to this office by now. However, their number has been growing over...
(english version ; deutsche Fassung) résumé La journée d’études a pour but de réunir les différents spécialistes de l’histoire de l’office d’armes et de les inviter à prendre part à une réflexion commune sur l´état actuel de la recherche et les perspectives potentielles du sujet. L’impact de l’office d’armes pour la
In the context of the planned workshop and book project “The History of Heralds in Europe (12th-18th c.)“, we have opened a group on Zotero which is a free, easy-to-use tool, offering the opportunity to share and work on a collaborative bibliography. Usually, it takes quite some time to establish a profound bibliography...
born 1948, retired, presently living in Farum, a suburb 25 km north of Copenhagen, Denmark. Cand.Scient. (Biochemistry), University of Copenhagen; before retirement I worked in regulatory affairs (environment, occupational health and food safety) as a toxicologist,
