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Heralds of Today
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Heralds of Today
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British Historians
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 202. Chapters: E. H. Carr, Niall Ferguson, Conrad Black, Eric Hobsbawm, Hubert Chesshyre, James Tod, Tony Judt, Giles Milton, David Littman (historian), Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Roy Jenkins, Orlando Figes, Richard Webster (author), Thomas Hutchinson (governor), Richard J. Evans, Ilan Pappe, Timothy Mason, Ronald Hutton, C. L. R. James, Robert Fisk, Maurice Cowling, A. L. Rowse, Mary Ellen Bagnall-Oakeley, Charles Thomas (historian), Paul Johnson (writer), Saki, R. H. Tawney, E. P. Thompson, William Dalrymple (historian...
The Orders of Knighthood and the Formation of the British Honours System, 1660-1760
`Sheds considerable new light on the nature, development and functions of the orders in a key phase of their history, and goes a long way to explaining how such archaic institutions could flourish in a culture that is commonly thought anti-traditional and especially hostile to the "middle ages"'. Professor JONATHAN BOULTON, University of Notre Dame. This is the first comprehensive study to set the British orders of knighthood properly into the context of the honours system - by analysing their political, social and cultural functions from the Restoration of the monarchy to the end of George II's reign. It examines the revival of the Order of the Garter and the proposals to establish the Orde...
Dictionary of British Arms
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.
Heralds of Today
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Islam, Christianity and the Mystic Journey
This distinctive comparison of Islamic and Christian mysticism focuses on the mystic journey in the two faith traditions.
Shame and Honor
"It's a nice piece of pageantry. . . . Rationally it's lunatic, but in practice, everyone enjoys it, I think."—HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Founded by Edward III in 1348, the Most Noble Order of the Garter is the highest chivalric honor among the gifts of the Queen of England and an institution that looks proudly back to its medieval origins. But what does the annual Garter procession of modern princes and politicians decked out in velvets and silks have to do with fourteenth-century institutions? And did the Order, in any event, actually originate in the wardrobe malfunction of the traditional story, when Edward held up his mistress's dropped garter for all to see and declared it ...
