Heraldic Hierarchies

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-94-6270-243-1
Verlag: Leuven University Press

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 418 g

The
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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thiry, Steven

Duerloo, Luc

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genealogie, Heraldik, Namen und Titel
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Hilfswissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Duerloo, Luc
Luc Duerloo is professor at the Department of History of the University of Antwerp, where he teaches early modern political and institutional history.

Thiry, Steven
Steven Thiry, PhD, is a voluntary member of ‘Power in History: Centre for Political History’ of the University of Antwerp.