A Canadian Heraldic Primer

A Canadian Heraldic Primer
Author: Kevin Greaves
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1459710835

Heraldry is now. Heraldry is fun. And most of all, heraldry is Canadian! A Canadian Heraldic Primer dispels, once and for all, the myth that coats of arms are boring, snobbish, mediaeval holdovers that have no relevance today. Using cartoons, humour, and not a little irreverence (in which is concealed a surprising amount of information), Kevin Greaves explains the history behind heraldry's unique conventions and language, and explores its creative possibilities. He shows heraldry as part of the fabric of Canada's past, present, and future, and illustrates how this lively art has become livelier since Canada became master of its own heraldic system in 1988.

Travels Into Spain

Travels Into Spain
Author: Aulnoy (Madame d', Marie-Catherine)
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415344715

Madame D'Aulnoy was one of the most widely-read and most popular authors of her time. Seeing Spain at a strange moment in her history, it is the end of a great age. The reader can judge the Spanish character from a witness who saw it.

Genealogica & Heraldica

Genealogica & Heraldica
Author: Auguste Vachon
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 510
Release: 1998-07-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0776616005

Proceedings of the 22nd International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences in Ottawa from August 18 to 23, 1996. -- Actes du 22e congrès international des sciences généalogique et héraldique à Ottawa du 18 au 23 août 1996.

Dictionary of British Arms

Dictionary of British Arms
Author: D. H. B. Chesshyre
Publisher:
Total Pages: 608
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780854312580

This is the first of a four-volume collection of British heraldic arms, arranged alphabetically according to their designs and covering the period before 1530. Listed in this volume are entries from Anchor to Bend. This book will help readers to identify the arms that were widely displayed in the Middle Ages and which can now be found not only on tombs, monuments and seals, but also on textiles, manuscripts, metalwork, glass, wall paintings, and other medieval artefacts. The index allows even those without any specialist knowledge of the subject to discover the blazons of arms recorded for particular surnames in the medieval period. Produced specifically to enable readers to identify individual coats of arms, it is an invaluable reference for historians, antiquaries, archaeologists, genealogists and those dealing in and collecting medieval objects.