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...
My interest in the history of heralds dates back to the moment when I started working on my doctoral thesis on the subject of iconography of Early Modern political assemblies. This project is still in progress and focuses primarily on the English parliament. Not only was the first picture of a parliament opening...
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
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...
Les études héraldiques au Portugal se sont portées surtout sur les aspects normatifs, d’identification et d’interprétation symbolique des emblèmes, considérés de manière abstraite et hors de leur contexte historique. Mon projet d’études postdoctorales,
