In the Middle Ages, knights-whose view of the battlefield was limited to what they could see through tiny slits in metal helms-recognized the need to be able to better identify friend from foe. Rather ...

Two armies, resplendent in medieval plate-like armour, size up each other on the outskirts of a NSW state forest, waiting for the order to charge. The tension is broken momentarily by the ding of a ...

Before the name of your tailor, the make and model of your car, or the size of your superyacht mattered, and before logo-laden handbags or even old school ties, the status symbol for the seriously ...

Logo nerds flocked to read Counter-Print’s book of heraldry-inspired designs first time around. As the publisher returns with Modern Heraldry: Volume Two, we dissect the relationship between the ...

The origin of armory -- Heraldry and numismatics by P. W. P. Carlyon-Britton -- The status and meaning of a coat of arms in Great Britain -- The heralds and officers of arms -- English heraldic ...

One would have thought that in the post-Vatican II era, the papacy — which had dispensed with coronations, tiaras, silken gloves, the sedia gestatoria and ostrich feather fans, — would have shelved ...

Items found for sale online had originally been stolen from a Hertfordshire and a Norfolk church.

Thought to have been adopted sometime in the 12 th century, the historic system of heraldry – coats of arms and other graphic armorial bearings – was designed so that individuals could identify ...