Download or read book Heraldry for the Dead written by Katina T. Lillios and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1800s, archaeologists began discovering engraved stone plaques in Neolithic (3500-2500 BC) graves in southern Portugal and Spain. About the size of one's palm, usually made of slate, and incised with geometric or, more rarely, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic designs, these plaques have mystified generations of researchers. What do their symbols signify? How were the plaques produced? Were they worn during an individual's lifetime, or only made at the time of their death? Why, indeed, were the plaques made at all? Employing an eclectic range of theoretical and methodological lenses, Katina Lillios surveys all that is currently known about the Iberian engraved stone plaques and advances her own carefully considered hypotheses about their manufacture and meanings. After analyzing data on the plaques' workmanship and distribution, she builds a convincing case that the majority of the Iberian plaques were genealogical records of the dead that served as durable markers of regional and local group identities. Such records, she argues, would have contributed toward legitimating and perpetuating an ideology of inherited social difference in the Iberian Late Neolithic.

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Download or read book A Complete Guide to Heraldry written by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Complete Guide to Heraldry is a book by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies. The author presents a comprehensive guide to heraldry, the science and the art that deal with the use, display, and management of hereditary symbols employed to distinguish individuals, armies, institutions, and corporations.

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Download or read book Heraldry in Miniature Containing All the Arms and Mottos of the Peers Peeresses and Bishops of England Scotland and Ireland with the Baronets of Great Britain Also an Introduction to the Science of Heraldry Etc written by HERALDRY. and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Illustrated Book of Heraldry written by Stephen Slater and published by Lorenz Books. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensively covers every aspect of the history, language and use of heraldry.

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Heraldry written by Charles Norton Elvin and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an extremely useful and comprehensive illustrated dictionary of heraldic terms, a necessity whether one's interest is that of an artist, engraver, heraldist, librarian, or genealogist. Elvin's book is as useful today as it was 110 years ago when the author wrote that the "aim of the present work is not to furnish an account of the antiquity and progress of Heraldry, but to provide as succinctly as possible, and in Alphabetical order, a list of the terms met with in the Science, with their appropriate Illustrations." The outstanding feature of this book is the set of 47 plates (done by Elvin) depicting over 2,500 illustations of the various heraldic charges, with blazonings, arranged by subject headings such as "Badges," "Bend," "Chevron," "Cross," and the like, thus providing a complete dictionary of terms, each term having an exact reference to a matching illustration. As a result, the identification of unrecognized charges is easy.

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Download or read book A Complete Guide to Heraldry written by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2007-05-17 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of family crests and medieval coats of arms, is a science and art steeped in the tradition of familial honor and shaped by the cords of ancestry and origin. This book deciphers the world of symbols, knights, and history, bringing back a time when all gentlemen were soldiers and a coat of arms was the most cherished heirloom.

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Download or read book Historical Anecdotes of Heraldry and Chivalry written by Mrs. Dobson (Susannah) and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Grammar of British Heraldry consisting of Blason and Marshalling with an introduction on the rise origin and progress of symbols and ensigns etc With plates written by William Sloane EVANS and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: