For a recently published essay on the rhetoric surrounding corporate coats of arms in grants, confirmations and augmentations of arms issued to London’s livery companies, I gathered quite a bit...
Der vierte und letzte Teil meiner Serie (siehe hier für Teil 1, Teil 2 und Teil 3) begleitend zur Überarbeitung des Wikipedia-Artikels “Heraldik” ist der Geschichte dieser Disziplin im 20. ...
From 16th to 19th August 2023 the Colloquium of the International Academy of Heraldry will again take place in Lund. The Académie internationale d’héraldique (AIH) is pleased to offer two bur...
In fast allen Einführungen in die Heraldik, die zwischen den 1880er Jahren und bis in die Gegenwart erschienen sind, wird die Geschichte des eigenen Fachs mit sehr ähnlichen Schwerpunkten, oft ...
Heraldische Themen sind in der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia mehr von heraldischen Lehrbüchern des 19. Jahrhunderts als den quellenkritischen Fortschritten der Geschichtswissenschaft im gleichen 1...
Some time ago, I started a little series on the Grünenberg armorial and its manuscripts. (Have a look here and here, if you like). As it turned out, Grünenberg’s work – which often is prais...
Heraldische Themen sind in der Wikipedia gut vertreten, was wohl niemanden überraschen wird. Wie die Diskussionsseite des Heraldik-Artikels zeigt, ist das Thema auch kommerziell interessant genu...
Seit 1967 bilden fünf Bände zu den Standeserhebungen und den Gnadenakten der Habsburger von Karl Friedrich von Frank eine verlässliche Übersicht der im ehemaligen „Adelsarchiv“1 verwahrte...
From 2 to 8 December, the symposium Seals and Linked Open Data was held as part of the online Linked Pasts 6 conference. The symposium was organised by John McEwan, Associate Director of the Cent...
Just in time for Christmas, we are pleased to announce the publication of the long-awaited third volume of the “Heraldic Studies” series. Under the title “Heraldry in Medieval and Early Mod...
From 2 December to 16 December 2020, the sixth edition of the conference Linked Pasts, organised by the Institute of Classical Studies in London, will be held online. Linked Pasts is an annual co...
In memory of Gerard J. Brault, 1929-2020 Being an MA in linguistics I was invited in 2013 by the group of Heraldry and Genealogy Project of the Institute of World History, Moscow, to conduc...
As the days get both shorter and colder again and we all have to social distance in these times, how about some new reading material? This list contains publications on heraldry as well as articl...
Lately it has become a little quieter on Heraldica Nova. This was partly due to the effects of the Corona pandemic, which has not left us unaffected as well, but above all to the relocation of th...
Panel at the Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference (Amsterdam, 2-5 June 2021) Originally hereditary symbols of the medieval noble elite, from the late-14th century onwards crests, coat of ar...