Early Blazon: Heraldic Terminology in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries with Special Refere

by Gerard J. Brault

'Early Blazon' traces the evolution of heraldic terminology from its beginnings - the second quarter of the 12th century to about the year 1300. It analyses the use of coats of arms in literary texts of the period and elucidates such phenomena as allusive, canting and symbolic arms, studying the semantic evolution of the terms and phrases which have survived in today's blazon, and establishing that coats were consistently attributed to certain Arthurian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851157114
• ISBN13: 9780851157115
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 321 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"