Heraldic Miscellany - Fifteenth Century Treatises on Blazon Office of Arms in English

The fifteenth-century texts edited here for the first time describe the changing relationship between heraldic design and heralds themselves. They describe the rules of heraldry and the meaning of colours and charges, the diplomatic and martial roles performed by heralds, and the imagined, illustrious history of the office of arms.

About the author

Richard J. Moll is Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. His previous publications include an edition of William Caxton's The Booke of Ovyde Named Methamorphose (Bodleian Library, 2013) and Before Malory: Reading Arthur in Later Medieval England (University of Toronto Press, 2003).

Summary

The fifteenth-century texts edited here for the first time describe the changing relationship between heraldic design and heralds themselves. They describe the rules of heraldry and the meaning of colours and charges, the diplomatic and martial roles performed by heralds, and the imagined, illustrious history of the office of arms.

Product details

• Authors: Richard J. Moll, Richard J. (Department of English and Writin Moll
• Assisted by: Richard J Moll (Editor), Richard J. Moll (Editor), Richard J. (Department of English and Writing Studies Moll (Editor)
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English, English, Middle (1100-1500)
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2018
• EAN: 9781781382486
• ISBN: 978-1-78138-248-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies; Exeter Medieval Texts and Stud; Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies; Exeter Medieval Texts and Stud
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries