We would like to bring the following upcoming exhibition to your attention: From February 24th to June 2nd, 2024, Museum Hof van Busleyden (Mechelen, Belgium) will host the exhibition “Knights of the Golden Fleece: a Brilliant Myth UnravelledR…
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Lecture: The Digital Heraldry Project. A Knowledge Graph with Semantic Web Technologies and Machine Learning to study medieval visual sources
by Heraldica Nova •
Philipp Schneider will present the Digital Heraldry Project at the DH AI Seminar at the Centre Sciences des Données at the École Normale Supérieure on Tuesday, 9 January 2024. Visual communication forms an important part of medieval and early modern eu…
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Recent Publications – Update December 2023
by Heraldica Nova •
Winter is here and the holidays are right around the corner. The cold, dark, and – at least in Germany – wet days are the perfect opportunity to dive into new readings on heraldry! We have done some research and compiled this list of articl…
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Book presentation on 20th October 2023, 5pm: Heraldry in Contact (Heraldic Studies 5) – hybrid
by Heraldica Nova •
We are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of the 5th volume of the Heraldic Studies series edited by Urte Krass and Miguel Metelo de Seixas, titled “Heraldry in Contact: Perspectives and Challenges of a Connective Image Form”. …
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Invitation: Inscribing heraldry on UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list? – Next meeting of the Société française d’héraldique et de sigillographie (19 October 23, 5pm, hybrid)
by Heraldica Nova •
At the next meeting of the Société française d’héraldique et de sigillographie on Thursday, 19 October, starting at 5pm, Nicolas Vernot will be presenting the project to recognise the practice of heraldry as intangible cultural heritage in France…
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Call for Bursaries: 36th International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, Boston, 24-28 September 2024
by Heraldica Nova •
From 24th to 28th September 2024 the International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences will take place in Boston. The Académie internationale d’héraldique (AIH) is pleased to offer two bursaries each amounting to a maximum of 1000 euros to a…
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Grants of Arms to the Guilds of London, 1439–1530
by Marcus Meer •
For a recently published essay on the rhetoric surrounding corporate coats of arms in grants, confirmations and augmentations of arms issued to London’s livery companies, I gathered quite a bit of information on these documents. While I did not set out…
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Devises, lettres, chiffres et couleurs : un code emblématique 1350-1550, sous la direction de Laurent Hablot, Miguel Metelo de Seixas et Matteo Ferrari, Lisbonne, IEM – Instituto de Estudos Medievais, 2022.
by matteoferrari •
Parmi les signes à travers lesquels l’individu exprime son identité à la fin du Moyen Âge, les devises intriguent et interrogent. Le caractère souvent insolite de leurs figures que l’on peine parfois à identifier et, dans de nombreux cas, les mots ou l…
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Recent Publications – Update September 2022
by Heraldica Nova •
As the days grow shorter, autumn is slowly making its presence felt. Are you still looking for the right reading on heraldry for the last days of summer? Perhaps you will find something suitable in this list: We have done a little research for y…
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Wappen und Heraldik in der deutschen Wikipedia IV
by Christof Rolker •
Der vierte und letzte Teil meiner Serie (siehe hier für Teil 1, Teil 2 und Teil 3) begleitend zur Überarbeitung des Wikipedia-Artikels “Heraldik” ist der Geschichte dieser Disziplin im 20. Jahrhundert gewidmet. Hier gilt für den bisherigen …
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Call for Bursaries: XXIInd Colloquium of the International Academy of Heraldry, Lund, 16-19 August 2023
by Heraldica Nova •
From 16th to 19th August 2023 the Colloquium of the International Academy of Heraldry will again take place in Lund. The Académie internationale d’héraldique (AIH) is pleased to offer two bursaries each amounting to a maximum of 600 euros to assi…
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Wappen und Heraldik in der deutschen Wikipedia III
by Christof Rolker •
In fast allen Einführungen in die Heraldik, die zwischen den 1880er Jahren und bis in die Gegenwart erschienen sind, wird die Geschichte des eigenen Fachs mit sehr ähnlichen Schwerpunkten, oft auch sehr ähnlichen Worten meist knapp dargestellt. Bei all…
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Wappen und Heraldik in der deutschen Wikipedia II
by Christof Rolker •
Heraldische Themen sind in der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia mehr von heraldischen Lehrbüchern des 19. Jahrhunderts als den quellenkritischen Fortschritten der Geschichtswissenschaft im gleichen 19. Jahrhundert, der kulturwissenschaftlichen Wende im 20. …
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Another Grünenberg Copy
by Christof Rolker •
Some time ago, I started a little series on the Grünenberg armorial and its manuscripts. (Have a look here and here, if you like). As it turned out, Grünenberg’s work – which often is praised as one of the most important medieval armorials …
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Wappen und Heraldik in der deutschen Wikipedia
by Christof Rolker •
Heraldische Themen sind in der Wikipedia gut vertreten, was wohl niemanden überraschen wird. Wie die Diskussionsseite des Heraldik-Artikels zeigt, ist das Thema auch kommerziell interessant genug, dass entsprechende Unternehmen Wikipedia als Werbeplatt…
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[Beitragsserie] Die neun Helden in der Konstanzer Konzilschronik – Teil 3
by Phillip Landgrebe •
Ziel der vorliegenden Reihe ist es, Darstellungstraditionen und Ordnungsmuster innerhalb der Wappen der Neun Helden in der Konstanzer Konzilschronik aufzudecken. Dazu wurden im ersten vorausgegangenen Beitrag Aufbau und Entstehungskontext der Handschri…
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[Beitragsserie] Die neun Helden in der Konstanzer Konzilschronik – Teil 2
by Phillip Landgrebe •
Der folgende Beitrag ist der zweite Teil einer dreiteiligen Reihe über die Wappen der Neun Helden in der Konstanzer Konzilschronik. Während im ersten Teil ein Blick auf den Aufbau der Handschriften Pr und G geworfen wurde, sollen im Folgendem imaginier…
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Beitragsserie: Die neun Helden in der Konstanzer Konzilschronik – Teil 1
by Phillip Landgrebe •
Einführung Die Wappen der Konstanzer Konzilschronik waren von 2015 bis 2017 Gegenstand einer Reihe von Beiträgen, die Christof Rolker und Tina Raddatz auf Heraldica Nova veröffentlichten. Mit dem vorliegenden Text wird eine neue, dreiteilige Beitragsse…
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Ein digitales Wappenbuch habsburgischer Gnadenakte
by Stefan Seitschek •
Seit 1967 bilden fünf Bände zu den Standeserhebungen und den Gnadenakten der Habsburger von Karl Friedrich von Frank eine verlässliche Übersicht der im ehemaligen „Adelsarchiv“1 verwahrten, alphabetisch geordneten Akten der Reichskanzlei und Hofkanzlei…
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Early Heraldry in the Late Romanesque Wall Paintings of the Church of Artins (France)
by Steffen Kremer •
Forgotten in the depot of the ‘Kunstsammlungen’ in Coburg Castle for decades, a ‘medieval tapestry’ was rediscovered in 2014. Soon after, it was determined, that the ‘tapestry’ was not in fact a tapestry, but a medieval wall painting that had been remo…
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[Report:] Seals and Linked Open Data, December 2nd to 8th 2020
by Philipp Schneider •
From 2 to 8 December, the symposium Seals and Linked Open Data was held as part of the online Linked Pasts 6 conference. The symposium was organised by John McEwan, Associate Director of the Center for Digital Humanities at Saint Louis University. Thre…
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Just published: Heraldry in Medieval and Early Modern State Rooms (Heraldic Studies 3)
by Heraldica Nova •
Just in time for Christmas, we are pleased to announce the publication of the long-awaited third volume of the “Heraldic Studies” series. Under the title “Heraldry in Medieval and Early Modern State Rooms” Miguel Metelo de Seixa…
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[Paper] Detection, description, analysis – Towards an integrated approach to heraldic representations on seals using machine learning and semantic web technologies (Linked Pasts 6 conference, 2 December 2020)
by Philipp Schneider •
From 2 December to 16 December 2020, the sixth edition of the conference Linked Pasts, organised by the Institute of Classical Studies in London, will be held online. Linked Pasts is an annual conference on the use of Linked Open Data for the study of …
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Heraldic Language in French Narrative of 12th-13th centuries
by dariastaroskolskaya •
In memory of Gerard J. Brault, 1929-2020 Being an MA in linguistics I was invited in 2013 by the group of Heraldry and Genealogy Project of the Institute of World History, Moscow, to conduct research on blazon as a professional language o…
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Recent Publications – Update November 2020
by Heraldica Nova •
As the days get both shorter and colder again and we all have to social distance in these times, how about some new reading material? This list contains publications on heraldry as well as articles and books in which heraldry plays a supporting role. S…
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News on “Heraldica Nova” and the “Coats of Arms in Practice” Project
by Heraldica Nova •
Lately it has become a little quieter on Heraldica Nova. This was partly due to the effects of the Corona pandemic, which has not left us unaffected as well, but above all to the relocation of the research project “Die Performanz der Wappen”…
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CfP: Heraldic Imagination in the Netherlands, 1500-1800
by Torsten Hiltmann •
Panel at the Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference (Amsterdam, 2-5 June 2021) Originally hereditary symbols of the medieval noble elite, from the late-14th century onwards crests, coat of arms and blazons were increasingly altered, added to and cu…
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Report de mes trois dernières conférences à Paris (mars/avril 2020)
by Torsten Hiltmann •
Comme vous vous en doutez certainement déjà, les conférences à Paris, qui n’ont pas encore eu lieu, doivent malheureusement être reportées à cause de la crise actuelle. Il s’agit des conférences de 25 et 26 mars ainsi que de 7 avril. S̵…
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Mars 2020 – Série de conférences à Paris sur des nouvelles approches pour l’étude de l’héraldique médiévale
by Torsten Hiltmann •
En mois de mars, je vais être professeur invité à l’École des Hautes Études à Paris, à l’invitation de Laurent Hablot. Dans le cadre de cette fonction, je vais présenter une série de conférences: Entre histoire culturelle et humanités num…
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Heraldica Nova 2019-10-07 16:32:38
by paulfox •
Papers from Coat of Arms no.235 ( 2018) now available online on the Heraldry Society website visit www.theheraldrysociety.com ARTICLES The heraldry and badges of King Richard II at Westminster Hall, Palace of Westminster. By D. Mark Collins. King Ric…
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SUBPROJECT ON ARMORIALS IN MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS REACHES ITS CONCLUSION
by Heraldica Nova •
This week, Elmar Hofman handed in his dissertation on armorials in Dutch, German and French manuscripts from the thirteenth to the early sixteenth centuries, a subproject of the “Performanz der Wappen” research project. In this dissertation, Hofman pur…
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[CfP:] 2nd International Congress about Heraldry – 2ème Congrès International sur l’Héraldique – October 5, 2019 (invitation and program)
by Maurizio Carlo Alberto Gorra •
The program of the 2nd International Congress on Heraldry is now available. The conference will take place in the Palazzo Pretorio, Buggiano (Pistoia – Italie), on Saturday 5 October 2019. See the full programme on the poster below. L’argom…
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New Website for the Study of Medieval Badges
by Heraldica Nova •
Professor Ann Marie Rasmussen (University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) has produced a website on medieval badges with the support of an Insight Grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The website shares knowledge about…
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La Cour amoureuse, dite de Charles VI : héraldique, politique, société et culture au XVe siècle
by Axe III •
Conférence d’Hélène Loyau et Clara Bozzolo à la Société française d’héraldique et de sigillographie à l’occasion de la sortie du t. IV de l’Armorial de la Cour amoureuse, Paris, Le Léopard d’or. Paris, Centre d’accue…
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Three Dynasties, One Armorial: Cranachs, Wettins and Habsburgs in Manchester, John Rylands Library, German MS. 2
by Ben Pope •
Manchester’s John Rylands Library is the custodian of a high-quality sixteenth-century German armorial (available online) which has only recently been studied in detail for the first time. In an article for the latest issue of the Bulletin of the John …
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Recent publications. Update January 2019
by Heraldica Nova •
This list contains publications on heraldry as well as articles and books in which heraldry plays a supportive part. It provides an overview of interesting reads that have been published since our last update, including recent publications that we miss…
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[CfP:] Heraldic Hierarchies: Identities, Status and State Intervention in Early Modern Heraldry (XXIth Colloquium of the International Academy of Heraldry)
by Heraldica Nova •
French version below. 18–20 September 2019 Antwerp: Grauwzusters Cloister of the University of Antwerp Over the past decades, the study of the adoption and use of arms within a wide range of social groups has questioned the exclusive association betwee…
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Armoiries et insignes d’Ezzelino da Romano, tyran de Padoue: une équivoque qui a la vie dure
by Patrizia Dal Zotto •
Fig. 1: Francesco Antonibon (1809-1883), Ezzelino siégeant en cour de justice, huile sur toile, Musée de Bassano del Grappa (avec l’aimable autorisation de MBA ,Musei Biblioteca Archivio di Bassano del Grappa. Reproduction interdite par quelque moyen q…
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“Dictionary of British Arms. Medieval Ordinary” (4 vols) available in Open Access
by Heraldica Nova •
The four volumes of the Dictionary are purchasable in print at Boydell & Brewer (photo: Boydell & Brewer) In four volumes, the Dictionary of British arms gathers the known coats of arms from the British Isles from the beginning of heraldry up t…
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Zwischenstand und Ankündigungen [06/2018]
by Torsten Hiltmann •
Es ist einigen sicher nicht entgangen, dass unser Blog Heraldica nova in der letzten Zeit etwas verstummt ist. Dies liegt unter anderem daran, dass sich die erste Förderphase des „Performanz der Wappen“-Projektes langsam dem Ende nähert und wir uns – …