NK - New book for library?
Hugh Niewoehner
hughn at ssd.fsi.com
Tue Feb 2 13:53:37 PST 1999
> Subject: Book recommendation
>
> My vassal, Sabine von Wettin, recommended a book to me, and I in turn am
> going to recommend it to you all:
>
> Heraldry : an introduction to a noble tradition
> Michel Pastoureau.
> New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1997.
> Call Number LCCN Dewey Decimal ISBN/ISSN
> CR21 .P317 1997 96049756 929.6/094 0810928302
>
> It's a very nice, short introductory book on heraldry. PROFUSELY
> illustrated with period use of arms (and the back lists the date and source
> of each illustration). Include general short chapters on 1, History of
> Arms, 2 The Language of Heraldry, 3 A Misunderstood Science. Plus a series
> of short monographs, a glossary and index, and recommended further reading.
>
> The short monographs are "Do historians fear the fleur-de-lis?", "The eagle
> and the lion in medieval arms", "A 14-th century case about the right to
> bear arms", "Heraldry in Britain", "Visitations", Shakespeare's coat of
> arms", "The suppression of 'signs of feudalism'", and "The japanese _mon_".
>
> The truly wonderful thing about the book, is that Michel is not English: he
> is French, and a member of International bodies on heraldry. As a result,
> his book does not have the usual bias that books written in English about
> the English College of Arms does.
>
> He talks about armory on the continent, the access of the lower classes, the
> difference between various forms of continental heraldry.
>
> I recommend it.
>
> Tibor
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