[Paper:] History on the Walls and Windows to the Past: Heraldic Commemoration of Urban Identity in Late Medieval Town Halls (Marcus Meer)
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29 février 2016
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King Henry IV, Henry V, and the Emperor Constantine in the stained glass of the north window in St Mary's Guildhall, Coventry. Image: Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi: Medieval Stained Glass in Great Britain, inv. no. 013805. In medieval town halls, coats of arms were a prominent visual means of expressing urban (civic) identity. A core element of this identity was the commemoration of an urban history that was not at all limited to the texts of city chronicles. To the contrary, in this presentat...