Download or read book The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter 1348 1485 written by Sir William Henry St. John Hope and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ancestor written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Grammar of English Heraldry written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Grammar of English Heraldry written by Sir William Henry St. John Hope and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London written by Society of Antiquaries of London and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Archaeologia Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Archaeologia Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity written by Society of Antiquaries of London and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the Orders of Knighthood of the British Empire of the Order of the Guelphs of Hanover and of the Medals Clasps and Crosses Conferred for Naval and Military Services written by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Complete Guide to Heraldry Illustrated by Nine Plates and Nearly 800 other Designs written by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This antiquarian book contains a detailed treatise on English heraldry, with information on its history, development, and popularity. Heraldry is the profession, study, or art of creating, granting, and blazoning arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of the army; and also comprises the practice of designing, displaying, describing, and recording coats of arms and heraldic badges. Illustrated by nine plates and nearly three hundred designs, this volume is a comprehensive treatment of the subject that will greatly appeal to those with an interest in heraldry. The chapters of this volume include: 'The Origin of Armory', 'The Status and the Meaning of a Coat of Arms in Great Britain', 'The Heralds and Officers of Arms', 'Heraldic Brasses', 'The Component Parts of an Achievement', 'The Shield', 'The Field of a Shield and the Heraldic Tinctures', 'The Rules of Blazon', et cetera. We are republishing this vintage text now complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.

Download or read book The Knights of the Crown written by D'Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant contribution to the history of the political life and culture of the later medieval aristocracy. MAURICE KEEN Orders of lay knights - the most famous of which are those of the Garter and the Golden Fleece - were founded at some time between 1325 and 1470 in almost every kingdom of Western Christendom, and played an important part in the life of the court. Jonathan Boulton defines the "monarchical" orders as those with corporate statutes which attached the presidential office to the crown of the princely founder, or made it hereditary in his house. Modelled eitherdirectly or indirectly on the fictional society of the Round Table, they incorporated varying numbers of elements borrowed from the older religious orders of knighthood and from contemporary institutions. This study explores the nature and history of thirteen orders, and reveals them as not only an ingenious supplement to (or replacement for) the feudo-vassalic ties that still bound the leading members of the nobility to their sovereign, but also as the most important institutional embodiments of the secular ideals of chivalry that were at the heart of the international court culture of the age. JONATHAN BOULTON teaches at the University of Notre Dame.

Download or read book Collection of Catalogues in Vols written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Shame and Honor written by Stephanie Trigg and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's a nice piece of pageantry. . . . Rationally it's lunatic, but in practice, everyone enjoys it, I think."—HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Founded by Edward III in 1348, the Most Noble Order of the Garter is the highest chivalric honor among the gifts of the Queen of England and an institution that looks proudly back to its medieval origins. But what does the annual Garter procession of modern princes and politicians decked out in velvets and silks have to do with fourteenth-century institutions? And did the Order, in any event, actually originate in the wardrobe malfunction of the traditional story, when Edward held up his mistress's dropped garter for all to see and declared it to be a mark of honor rather than shame? Or is this tale of the Order's beginning nothing more than a vulgar myth? With steady erudition and not infrequent irreverence, Stephanie Trigg ranges from medieval romance to Victorian caricature, from imperial politics to medievalism in contemporary culture, to write a strikingly original cultural history of the Order of the Garter. She explores the Order's attempts to reform and modernize itself, even as it holds onto an ambivalent relationship to its medieval past. She revisits those moments in British history when the Garter has taken on new or increased importance and explores a long tradition of amusement and embarrassment over its formal processions and elaborate costumes. Revisiting the myth of the dropped garter itself, she asks what it can tell us about our desire to seek the hidden sexual history behind so venerable an institution. Grounded in archival detail and combining historical method with reception and cultural studies, Shame and Honor untangles 650 years of fact, fiction, ritual, and reinvention.

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Download or read book History of the orders of knighthood of the British Empire of the order of the Guelphs Hanover and of the medals clasps and crosses conferred for naval and military services written by Nicholas Harris Nicolas and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: