IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 1629: Urban Culture vs. Courtly Culture?: The Place of Heralds in the Burgundian Netherlands
Thursday 12 July 2007, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Deutsches Historisches Institut, Paris |
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Organiser: | Torsten Hiltmann, Deutsches Historisches Institut, Paris |
Moderator/Chair: | Gert Melville, Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte, Katholische Universität, Eichstätt / Institut für Geschichte, Technische Universität, Dresden |
Paper 1629-a | The Office of Arms in Later Medieval Europe: New Approches, New Perspectives (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Computing in Medieval Studies, Heraldry, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 1629-b | Heralds between City and Nobility in the Netherlands and the Burgundian State (Language: English) Index terms: Heraldry, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
Paper 1629-c | The Herald in the City: A Mirror of Urban Community? (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Heraldry, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
Abstract | Hitherto, the history of heralds has been considered essentially as part of the court culture. The few heralds known to have served in urban service were regarded rather as curious side effects. But are they really? |