An Introduction into Textual Heraldry.
Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
For citation: Staroskolskaia, Daria S. An Introduction into Textual Heraldry // Graphosphaera. 2021. Vol. 1. P. 169–179. URL: http://writing.igh.ru/index.php?id=heraldry-as-text-1
DOI: 10.32608/2782-5272-2022-1-169-179
Abstract: Evidently, a coat of arms is associated with an image, and heraldry is primarily a system of visual signs. However, not long after appearance of first coats of arms painted on shields, they started to be described by means of language and thus their verbal equivalent, blazon, appeared. Heraldic signs in a textual form easily found their way into contemporary narratives. The research of narrative heraldic sources started only in the early 20th century, and studies of blazon are relatively few compared to the massive of works on heraldry. However, heraldic narrations can become a source of completely new data. Modern heraldic science addresses deeper anthropologic issues, and besides the arms themselves, it investigates the cultural and social aspects of their application. Visual sources are not always able to fulfill such needs. Thus, the research of heraldry in literature of different epochs is a promising direction, further forming our idea of coats of arms in historical context.
Key words: heraldry, blazon, coat of arms
Литература / References
Рыжова Д. С. Влияние церковного запрета турниров на развитие геральдики в XII–XIII вв. // Изв. Саратовского ун-та. Нов. сер. Сер. История. Международные отношения. 2017. Т. 17. Вып. 1. С. 88–91. [Ryzhova D. S. Vliyaniye tserkovnogo zapreta turnirov na razvitiye geral’diki v XII–XIII vv. (The Influence of the Church Prohibition of Tournaments on the Development of Heraldry in the 12th–13th Centuries) // Izv. Saratovskogo un-ta. Nov. ser. Ser. Istoriya. Mezhdunarodnyye otnosheniya. 2017. T. 17. Vyp. 1. S. 88–91.]
Рыжова Д. С. Геральдика в романах Кретьена де Труа // Средние века. 2018. Вып. 79 (1). С. 36–58. [Ryzhova D. S. Geral’dika v romanakh Kret'yena de Trua (Heraldry in the Romances of Chretien de Troyes) // Sredniye veka. 2018. Vyp. 79 (1). S. 36–58.]
Староскольская (Рыжова) Д. С. Геральдика XII в.: перспективы исследования // Signum. М., 2019. Вып. 10. С. 5–18. [Staroskol'skaya (Ryzhova) D. S. Geral’dika XII v.: perspektivy issledovaniya (12th-century Heraldry: Perspectives of Study) // Signum. Moscow, 2019. Vyp. 10. S. 5–18.]
Староскольская Д. С. Распространение блазона как специального языка геральдики в английских и французских текстах XII–XIII вв.: Дис. ... канд. ист. наук. М., 2020. [Staroskol'skaya D. S. Rasprostraneniye blazona kak spetsial’nogo yazyka geral’diki v angliyskikh i frantsuzskikh tekstakh XII–XIII vv. (The Spread of Blazon as a Special Language of Heraldry in English and French Texts of the 12th–13th Centuries): PhD thesis. Moscow, 2020.]
Черных А. П. Гербовники XIII века // Средние века. М., 2007. Вып. 68 (2). С. 90–110. [Chernykh A. P. Gerbovniki XIII veka (12th-century Armorials) // Sredniye veka. Moscow, 2007. Vyp. 68 (2). S. 90–110.]
Черных А. П. Гербовники XIV века // Средние века. М., 2009. Вып. 70 (1–2). С. 212–241. [Chernykh A. P. Gerbovniki XIV veka (14th-century Armorials) // Sredniye veka. Moscow, 2009. Vyp. 70 (1–2). S. 212–241.]
Adam P. Les usages héraldiques au milieu du XIIe siècle d’après le Roman de Troie de Benoit de Sainte Maure et la littérature contemporaine // Archivum heraldicum. 1963. Bulletin № 2 (3).
Bouly de Lesdain L. Études héraldiques sur le XIIe siècle // Annuaire du Conseil héraldique de France. Paris, 1907.
Brault G. J. Early Blazon: heraldic terminology in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries with special reference to Arthurian literature. Oxford, 1972.
Busby K. Plagiarism and Poetry in the “Tournoiement Antéchrist” of Huon de Méry // Neuphilologische Mitteilungen. 1983. Vol. 84. № 4.
Colclough D. Donne, John (1572–1631), poet and Church of England clergyman // Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-7819 [31.08.2021]).
Denholm-Young N. History and Heraldry: 1254 to 1310. Oxford, 1965.
Frappier J. Etude sur Yvain ou le Chevalier au lion de Cretien de Troyes. Paris, 1969.
London H. S., Tremlett T. D. Rolls of Arms of Henry III (Aspilogia II). London, 1967.
Prinet M. Le language héraldique dans le Tournoiement Antéchrist // Bibliothèque de l’École des chartres. 1922. T. 83. P. 43–55.
Scott-Giles C. Shakespeare’s Heraldry. London, 1893.
Simpson E. Two Notes on Donne // The Review of English Studies. 1965. Vol. 16. № 62.
Staroskolskaia (Ryzhova) D. Heraldic Blazon in Tournoi de Chauvency, 1285 // История: Электронный научно-образовательный журнал [Istoriya: Elektronnyy nauchno-obrazovatel'nyy zhurnal]. 2019. Т. 10. Vol. 4 (78). (https://history.jes.su/s207987840005014-4-1/)
Vaughan R. Mathew Paris. Cambridge, 1958.
Wandhoff H. The Shield as a Poetic Screen: Early Blazon and the Visualization of Medieval German Literature // Visual Culture and the German Middle Ages. New York, 2005.
Shakespeare: Actor. Playwright. Social Climber // New York Times. 2016. 30 June (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/theater/shakespeare-coat-of-arms.html?smid=tw-nytimesarts&smtyp=cur&_r=1).
