The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopedia of Armory (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330353633 ISBN 13 : 9781330353639

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A rmoiy as the study of a subject which has passed beyond the limits of practical politics. Heraldry has been termed The Shorthand of History, but nevertheless the study of that shorthand has been approached too often as if it were but the study of a dead language. The result has been that too much faith has been placed in the works of older writers, whose dicta have been accepted as both unquestionably correct at the date they wrote, and, as a consequence, equally binding at the present day. Since Dame Juliana Bemers wrote theB oke of St. A lbans, into which she managed to compress an unconscionable amount of rubbish, books and treatises on the subject of A i mory have issued from the press in a constant succession. A few of them stand a head and shoulders above the remainder. The said remainder have already sunk into oblivion. Such a book as Guillim must of necessity rank in the forefi ont of any armorial bibliography; but any one seeking to judge the xlrmory of the present day by the standards and ethics adopted by that writer, would find himself making mistake after mistake, and led hopelessly astray. There can be very little doubt that theD isplay of Heraldry is an accurate representation of the laws of Armory which governed the use of Arms at the date the book was written; and it correctly puts forward the opinions which were then accepted concerning the past history of the science. There are two points, however, which must be borne in mind. The first is that the critical desire for accuracy which fortunately seems to have been the keynote of research duiing the nineteenth century, has produced students of Armory whose investigations into facts have swept away the fables, the myths, and the falsehood which had collected around the ancient science, and which in their preposterous assertions had earned for Armory a ridicule, a contempt, and a disbelief w
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330353633
• ISBN 13: 9781330353639
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 822
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