Heraldic Standards and Other Ensigns
Author: Robert Gayre of Gayre and Nigg
Publisher: Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 196
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Publisher: Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 196
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Published: 1959
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: D'Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 686
ISBN-13: 9780851157955
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Stephen Slater
Publisher: Lorenz Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780754817802
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A sensuous, heartbreaking novel about art, beauty and the choices we make that define us for life, from the author of the Giller Prize finalist Summer Gone A young man travels to Paris in 1968, where a series of unlikely events take him to a tiny village in Italyâe"and the one great love of his life. A marble merchant meets a couple on their honeymoon, introducing them to the sensual beauty of Carrara. An Italian woman arrives in Canada to find the father she never knew. A terrible accident in a marble quarry changes the course of a young boyâe(tm)s life and, ultimately, sets in motion each of these stories, which Macfarlane masterfully shapes into a magnificent whole. Oliver Hughson falls in love with wild, bohemian Anna over the course of one glorious summer in Italy. Bound by a sense of responsibility to his adoptive parents back home in Canada, however, he leaves her, an act he will regret for the rest of his life. Narrated by the daughter he never knew he had, The Figures of Beauty is a love story of mythic proportions. Through luck, fate and great good fortune, Oliver found the one place and the one woman he should never have left. This is the story of him trying to find his way back.
Author: Stephen Slater
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9781846812668
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stephen Friar
Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Marvin H. Pakula
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 286
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Heraldry was a colorful system of personal identification in the Middle Ages and this volume outlines carefully its many components and practices.
Author: Ch. Boutell
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Published:
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 5879607216
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