Thoughts on the Heraldry Supports within some Historical Sources from the Medieval West (12th-early 16th centuries)
Abstract
This article discusses the motivations of medieval chroniclers to describe the heraldry image supports into their historical works. Due to the hardness to investigate on exhaustive materials, this article is rather a compilation of thoughts than a definitive study. The different thematics of the image supports are showed and discussed, from the usefulness of this kind of image supports for identification of historical characters to the ability to give an image of political power, before highlighting the real limits of these occurrences because of the historian influences and various ways of working. A conclusion explains theses influences prevent to give directly simple reality of facts and force to be cautious with this kind of representation.
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