Matter(s) of State

Heraldic Display and Discourse in the Early Modern Monarchy (c. 1480-1650)

by Steven Thiry, edited by Torsten Hiltmann and Laurent Hablot

Extent: 402 pages

Publisher: Jan Thorbecke Verlag

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Social Sciences

Series: Heraldic Studies

Series volume number: 2

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(July 2018)

ISBN: 9783799510929

6.5 x 9.45 inches

Price: $70.00

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Heraldic images pervaded early modern politics. In particular, the king’s bearings embodied sovereignty and advanced dynastic claims. They became the stuff of legends, as well as the cause of fierce disputes. But when did heraldic adaptation occur? Why was a disrespectful treatment damaging to the political fabric? By comparing armorial appropriation in the French and Spanish monarchies, Steven Thiry challenges the dominant view of princely image control. Eagles, lilies and lions not only visualized political virtues and vices. Their visual and material dimension imbued them with an agency of their own. Matter(s) of State offers a new insight into the symbolic mindset of the political process. Mystical exaltation, subversive adaptation, and even violent ‘heraldic’ iconoclasm appear as significant means of debating and even questioning rule.

Steven Thiry is a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), affiliated to Power in History: Centre for Political History of the University of Antwerp. His research focuses on early modern heraldic practices and on the political culture of the Habsburg Netherlands.

By (author) Steven Thiry

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Heraldry in Contact

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Heraldry in Medieval and Early Modern State Rooms

edited by Torsten Hiltmann and Miguel Metelo de Seixas

Armorials in medieval manuscripts

Collections of coats of arms as means of communication and historical sources in France and the Holy Roman Empire (13th-early 16th centuries)

Volume 4

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Heraldic Artists and Painters in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times

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