Herald in Late Medieval Europe

KATIE STEVENSON is Vice Principal (Collections) and Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval History, University of St Andrews. KATIE STEVENSON is Vice Principal (Collections) and Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval History, University of St Andrews.

• Introduction - Katie StevensonThe Development of the Office of Arms in England, c. 1413-1485 - Jackson Webster ArmstrongAncient Precedent or Tudor Fiction? Garter King of Arms and the Pronouncements of Thomas, Duke of Clarence - Adrian AilesJurisdiction, Authority and Professionalisation: The Officers of Arms of Late Medieval Scotland - Katie StevensonThe March of Brittany and its Heralds in the Later Middle Ages - Michael JonesCity Heralds in the Burgundian Low Countries - Franck André Viltart and Henri SimonneauKing of Arms of the Ruwieren: a Special Function in the German Empire - Wim van AnrooijHeraldry, Heralds and Politics in the Republic of Florence in the Late Middle Ages - Laura CirriTournaments, Heraldry and Heralds in the Kingdom of Poland in the Late Middle Ages - Bogdan Wojciech BrzustowiczTournaments, Heraldry and Heralds in the Kingdom of Poland in the Late Middle Ages - Katie StevensonA time when 'fools and dwarfs were highly esteemed'? Seeking the Late Medieval Scandinavian Herald - Alexia Grosjean

Stevenson and her collaborators have opened new vistas for the historian of the heralds, pointing the way forward to an internationally focused approach to the significance of the part which heralds played in noble society and in the courtly politics of the late medieval age, and one which promises to enlarge our perception of its aristocratic culture.